Example sentences of "[to-vb] up to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no doubt that Dana would be with Garry and her twin was n't made to stand up to that kind of trouble . |
| 2 | No one has yet been able to stand up to that complex and refuse to give it the money . |
| 3 | It can not have been easy for an ordinand or a curate to stand up to contemptuous persiflage about his religion from one of the ablest minds of the generation who happened to be his own brother . |
| 4 | A lightweight racer/trainer many look sleek on the shelf , but it is n't going to stand up to heavy mileage and regular forays off-road . |
| 5 | They are generally thicker and harder-fired than wall tiles , to enable them to stand up to heavy wear without cracking . |
| 6 | Before they met , Marshall announced the absurd news that enquiries in the rag trade had revealed that Trilyn , notorious for its inability to stand up to heavy wear , was most frequently used for trouser pockets . |
| 7 | So if , if you are a poor peasant you are thinking hold on the Party expects me to stand up to this landlord and accuse him of this this and this , actually point a finger at him when there is a chance that , you know , the Kuomintang is , is twenty miles away and they , I know they 've come into other villages as they come back , m of land to peasants.s in the form of land |
| 8 | As faith in the League declined , some called for a new alliance system — and a new Government — to stand up to fascist aggression . |
| 9 | However , for databases which fail to come up to that standard a new right to prevent unfair extraction is proposed . |
| 10 | Yes , I mean it 's not the whole of the market , admittedly , and we are still encouraging our own countrymen to take a holiday in this country erm but if one 's blunt about it , yes , it 's erm a large sector of the market and one that is , one we 've got to get back to come up to last year 's levels . |
| 11 | the real feeling and we feel we 've got to come up to some sort of a standard . |
| 12 | The borough council is to visit up to 1,500 business premises in the town to check safety and health standards . |
| 13 | The world recovery will be led by the United States , according to the IMF , where growth is expected to pick up to 3½ p.c. next year . |
| 14 | Shell is to open up to 1,000 food shops on its garage forecourts in order to compete with the food retailers that have started selling petrol on their superstore sites . |
| 15 | India 's desire to open up to foreign investment evident in the relaxation on rules restricting foreign advertising , for example have further encouraged the present move . |
| 16 | A Freedom of Information Act ( also supported by the Liberals and the Social Democrats ) is advocated to open up to public scrutiny the workings of government departments . |
| 17 | BRITISH troops were last night preparing to evacuate up to 2,000 war refugees trapped in a Bosnian village . |
| 18 | Norman said that his day-dream was ‘ to walk up to any computer , plug in the card and have the terminal look and act like the one at home . ’ |
| 19 | Each of the eight programmable array logic blocks has a 2:1 input to macrocell ratio giving the ability to handle up to 33 input functions . |
| 20 | In the case of sails , spars , standing and running rigging it will be possible to apply UP TO one-third deduction from the new replacement cost to allow for deterioration due to use . |
| 21 | This option allows you to reserve up to 29 Source , Foreign or Pmodel modules names at any one time . |
| 22 | No , she wants to go up to that playgroup ! |
| 23 | ‘ … someone 'll have to go up to Top Piece , too , and have a go at that wall . |
| 24 | But the result no longer has a bearing on the National Division Two relegation situation after Morley beat Newcastle Gosforth on Saturday to go clear of trouble , while West have forfeited the chance to go up to National Division One as champions , settling for second spot and promotion . |
| 25 | With Turkish collaborators , he plans to interview up to 400 village and migrant households , to collect quantifiable personal histories , and also to gather informal data through his established contacts . |
| 26 | Nirex 's plans to drill up to 6,000 test bore holes for an underground nuclear waste dump at Dounreay , Caithness , have been approved by Scottish Secretary Ian Lang . |
| 27 | Given the interest of Bakeman and Brown in finding early signposts to later development , it seems ironic that their sophisticated and hard-won ‘ dialogic variables ’ should fail to match up to personal intuition . |
| 28 | Tonally the A2 seems to match up to any amp or processor , and although there are some lead sounds which did n't quite make it , they were closer than many processors can claim to get . |
| 29 | Vital forensic evidence needed to convict up to 500 terrorist suspects is feared to have been wiped out . |
| 30 | Lewis hardly managed to climb up to any plateau of assertiveness . |