Example sentences of "[vb infin] up to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world … |
| 2 | Once inside a gallery , Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore . |
| 3 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |
| 4 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 5 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 6 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 7 | They must face up to the limitations of the Western model — though the baby of Western expertise should not be thrown out with the bathwater of its failings . |
| 8 | Children and adults come to learn and face up to the facts of caring and sharing on the principal that we can not survive alone on Earth — we must share it with all the other animals and plants . |
| 9 | It appears that rather than allowing us to enter a realm of meditation and escapism so associated with abstraction these paintings are determined to make us face up to the ambiguities in our readings of the visual world . |
| 10 | It is anticipated that , as regards the current emergency , personnel will face up to the issues involved and exercise appropriately the functions allocated to their respective age groups . |
| 11 | This is the finest war memorial you could set up to the men who gave their lives , their limbs , or their health , and those who lost their dear ones in the country 's cause . |
| 12 | This giant fashion T-Shirt is one large size that will fit up to a 42″ chest , and is a great way to show your support of WWF 's imported work . |
| 13 | ‘ The thinking is that everyone should be placid and passive , as if you can creep up to the polls in carpet slippers . |
| 14 | However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales . |
| 15 | However , one thing that is almost guaranteed is that if the things that you do do n't match up to the things that you say , your friends will soon point that out to you ! |
| 16 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
| 17 | With a top capacity of some 75 litres it 's large enough for a week 's backpacking , or even extended expedition use , although I do have some doubts as to whether it could stand up to the rigours of expedition life . |
| 18 | What has been an ideal jacket for the Lakeland fells could be too heavy to take to Africa ; what seems like a good buy for walking in the Alps might not stand up to the rigours of a Himalayan winter . |
| 19 | Take this opportunity to try Amyway 's products and see how they really do stand up to the products you have used for years . |
| 20 | He was trying to undermine her self-confidence , make her believe she could n't stand up to the exigencies of canal life . |
| 21 | Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life . |
| 22 | Why could n't Wilson stand up to the allies , why could n't had stand up to Clements or Lloyd George , in particular ? |
| 23 | Now do go up to the others . ’ |
| 24 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 25 | They would n't add up to the sorts of things that we 've got . |
| 26 | Certainly as far as Americans are concerned , a lot of our hotels do n't come up to the standards of service that they are used to , and certainly they do n't think they 're value for money . |
| 27 | Every day , we would drive up to the mountains and each day the Syrian tanks would be a little closer . |
| 28 | I still pray for Gary and continue to hope that he will eventually live up to the professions of faith that he has made . |
| 29 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 30 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating and while I found that McAfee VirusScan did n't quite live up to the advertisers ‘ claims , it was able to spot over 84 per cent of the infected files in my library . |