Example sentences of "[vb infin] up to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it could bring its cost-effectiveness nearer the average , it could recruit up to the establishment that the Home Secretary has recommended . ’ |
| 2 | The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world … |
| 3 | I could sidle up to the hi-fi and turn it off , snap on the light-switch and announce quite calmly to all the sycophants here that Luke Denner is nothing more than a callous murderer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 6 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |
| 7 | You know me , I run with the hare an' hunt with the hounds : I 'd suck up to the devil himself for a penny . ’ |
| 8 | You had to eat yourself , of course , so there was a s You 'd run up to the hotel in called the Hotel and opposite was a family butcher and he used to sell dripping and bread . |
| 9 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 10 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 11 | After the marking of Nicaragua 's ‘ Tenth Year of Freedom ’ in 1989 , how do the prisons measure up to the government 's claims ? |
| 12 | Scholars , on the other hand , are all agog to see how these hitherto heavily obscured works will now measure up to the rest of Titian 's oeuvre . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Of course there was nothing to guarantee that the soup you were canning would measure up to the quality or taste of Mother 's , nor that other soup canners would not make the same sales appeal . |
| 17 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 18 | ‘ Those who argue that maybe we should just once more try to delay it must face up to the responsibility that they may , by their good intentions , create much more suffering than anything we have seen so far . |
| 19 | First , it blots out the past so that a body can face up to the present . |
| 20 | He will not face up to the problem . |
| 21 | Harris accuses Cole of ‘ stepping away from a system that must face up to the hypocrisy behind pretending to give a helping hand ’ and ignoring the way this system ‘ ( ab ) uses the South … and , in the words of Eduardo Galeano , ‘ spreads the haemorrage to cure the anaemia' ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He should face up to the need to release those much-needed funds for Scotland . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Let us face up to the reality of these fears and face them in the power of the cross . |
| 26 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
| 27 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 28 | It does not face up to the punishment question because it implicitly suggests that they are not culpable if their criminal aetiology can be ‘ understood ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're pathetic and obsessed and you wo n't face up to the truth that Eddie was never good enough to make the jump into Formula One ! |
| 30 | 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 . |