Example sentences of "[to-vb] up to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 2 | But it would be desperately hard , in the Arab world , to stand up to a man who could portray himself as a ( literally ) world-defying champion of Palestinian rights . |
| 3 | Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon . |
| 4 | They spoke after the borough council 's planning committee decided last night to stand up to the Home Office by objecting to the £14 million expansion , intended to ease the prison 's long-standing and often chronic overcrowding problem . |
| 5 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 6 | He was about to stand up to the policeman when Duncan spoke . |
| 7 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 8 | A Japanese-led bloc of Asian nations would be militarily and economically secure , and able to stand up to the threat posed by the nations of Europe and by the United States . |
| 9 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 10 | ‘ It took a great deal of courage for one man to stand up to the tobacco industry . |
| 11 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
| 12 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 13 | When profits fails to come up to the mark , corners may be cut . |
| 14 | Do you want to come up to the window where you can see ? |
| 15 | ‘ I wonder if you 'd care to come up to the stable at the house and help me box a pair of geldings of mine ? ’ he was inquiring . |
| 16 | But characteristically she got her way about going to art school , Beaton persuading her to get her father to come up to the academy and talk about the future of his precocious daughter . |
| 17 | No , but the point is that to in all our cases to provide a community resource which is going to be of genuine use to artists and the general public , erm one has to take care that the standards of work and the standards of community facilities are as high as they possibly can be if you want to attract maximum usage , and what we will be trying to do in circumstances like this encourage as many people to come up to the Gardener at weekends during the summer and have as enjoyable a time as possible . |
| 18 | She asked : ‘ Would you like to come up to the top of the house , to my office ? |
| 19 | He took time out of a busy schedule to come up to the zoo and meet the rather less glamorous , but real , White 's Tree Frog . |
| 20 | And they used to come up to the maintenance workshop |
| 21 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 22 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 23 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 24 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 25 | There was no clue to contemporary thinking at the DTp throughout the 1970's : indeed , it was not until 1987 that a new standard reference work was published which could reasonably be expected to provide up to the minute advice on traffic planning in existing urban areas . |
| 26 | Severn Mill continued to work up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 27 | Although such legal standards result in pollution concentrations being reduced to an acceptable level in a ‘ polluted ’ area , pollution in a ‘ clean ’ area is allowed to increase up to the standard . |
| 28 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 29 | ‘ Find a stick long enough to reach up to the cab , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The country was smaller than Wales , only one fortieth the size of California ; the ridge-line of mountain peaks provided Lebanon 's epic dimensions , plateaus of snow that seemed to reach up to the moon on winter nights . |