Example sentences of "[to-vb] up to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 2 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 3 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ kept gathering up her skirts and hitching up her bosom as ‘ she ’ jumped from the trap in order to dash up to the houses and implant a big kiss on the cheeks of the inhabitants . |
| 5 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 6 | Er with the new contracts that started in September erm basically it seems that some teachers are having to do bits of cleaning themselves to keep their their classroom up to up to scratch up to the standards they ought they ought to be . |
| 7 | No we are gon na watch Playbus and then we 'll have a bath and then we have to go up to the shops because today is mummy and daddy 's wedding anniversary . |
| 8 | When the party is over members of the bridal party , and guests , may want to go up to the speakers and personally thank them , complimenting them on a good , amusing speech . |
| 9 | If such shafts found within the pyramids do have any significance it is most probably as a passageway for the spirit of the deceased to mount up to the stars . |
| 10 | The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 . |
| 11 | As William Gutteridge had pointed out in 1969 , the ability of the new polytechnics to match up to the universities was drastically hampered by their lack of resources of all kinds : |
| 12 | Make sure there are no other ways for the weevils to climb up to the pots . |
| 13 | I hate the fact that , during election campaigns , we all have to suck up to the idiots , pay court to them , treat them as if they were intelligent , thoughtful stalwarts of democracy , careful weighers of pros and cons , when in point of fact they 're just idiots . |
| 14 | SSDs are failing to live up to the Children Act requirements to provide an ethnically sensitive service for black children in their care . |
| 15 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 16 | Without the protection of these interests , the market order legitimated by interests theory countenances too many opportunities to trick and exploit others to live up to the virtues of trust and solidarity . |
| 17 | The impetus for suggesting so major an upheaval came from Coleridge , who felt an increasing sense of obligation to live up to the hopes so clearly implied by the Wedgwood annuity . |
| 18 | And when your children fail to live up to the hopes you have for them , you imply they are not acceptable people in their own right . |
| 19 | Within the holdings , the biggest disappointment was Thomson Corporation , which failed to live up to the hopes expressed in the last article that ( a ) the travel side would benefit from the collapse of Intasun , a major competitor , ( b ) that the results of the North American ( and at a later stage UK ) newspaper interests would reflect a developing cyclical upturn , and ( c ) that the professional publishing companies would maintain their profits momentum . |
| 20 | Prior to 1916–17 , prior to the crisis brought about by the demise of his father , the process of schooling was merely an extension of family life , a childhood means of emulating a successful father , the arena in which to live up to the expectations of a demanding father-figure . |
| 21 | Its report , Fit for the Future says that in many respects the Parks have failed to live up to the expectations of their founders , as enshrined in the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act . |
| 22 | He sets a high moral tone , exhorting the journalist to live up to the ideals of truth , decency and justice against the crasser world outside . |
| 23 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 24 | He said , ‘ You 're useless , you need n't bother to turn up to the exams ’ , because he thinks I 'm going to fail . |
| 25 | One poster criticised local students for being ‘ late ’ to wake up to the realities . |
| 26 | This is the last year of the real recession and people are beginning to wake up to the opportunities . ’ |
| 27 | Britain 's savers and pensioners are just beginning to wake up to the possibilities of independent taxation of husbands and wives . |
| 28 | Therefore , if a firm engaged to write a computer program fails to measure up to the standards that would normally be expected from able computer programmers and the program turns out to be sub-standard then , prima facie , the firm will be liable in contract . |
| 29 | But in respect of specific works , the listener 's role is to measure up to the demands imposed by the work itself , to comprehend what is already present . |
| 30 | Does he believe that , even with massive commitment and dedication , it will be possible for the large number of single-practice GPs in this country to measure up to the demands of the community care programme in 1993 ? |