Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My remarks about the Attorney-General were strong because he has not faced up to his responsibility to enforce the law . |
| 2 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 3 | There is a rapidly-growing belief in Italy that Sampdoria are ready to part company with England defender Walker because he has not lived up to expectations since joining them last summer . |
| 4 | The Middlesex slow left-armer began this winter 's campaign as one of the world 's top ranked spinners , but he has not lived up to that reputation . |
| 5 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( CI No 1,697 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 6 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 7 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( UX No 39 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 8 | Like the War powers Act , the budget reform act has not lived up to the expectations of those who crafted it . |
| 9 | The suggestion that hand posture during writing provides a ready indication has not lived up to its early promise . |
| 10 | At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections . |
| 11 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 12 | Let him start talking up our achievements rather than pointing to an agenda which his party has already signed up to which would destroy millions of jobs through statutory works councils , statutory minimum wage and statutory compulsory working week . |
| 13 | Since then broadcasting has gradually opened up to the continuing debate over the place of homosexuality in British society , albeit confining it to a number of fairly distinct genres of drama and factual television . |
| 14 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 15 | The Indonesian market has also opened up to foreign investment allowing up to 49 per cent of any listed company or new issue to be bought by foreigners compared with only 11 companies being open to foreign investment previously . |
| 16 | This has now gone up to 16 making it the hardest handicap hurdle of the season to date for any punter to try and solve . |
| 17 | The company 's Austin , Texas-based Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group Monday has now moved up to the first 32-bit version of the multiprotocol communications engine derived from the 68000 . |
| 18 | His party has now signed up to Mr. MacSharry and his basic philosophy . |
| 19 | Lloyd 's has belatedly woken up to the need for change . |
| 20 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 21 | The left has yet to wake up to the new politics as played by the Prime Minister . |
| 22 | No party has yet owned up to actually revealing the identity of five-year-old Jennifer Bennett of Faversham , Kent , who waited 11 months for an operation for glue ear . |
| 23 | Im not impressed — he has nt lived up to the hype . |
| 24 | As for multi-processing , Bull says it has recently woken up to the fact that it has a lead over most of its competitors — the Motorola-based DPX/2 line has supported symmetrical multi-processing with up to four processors for years , and now claims to have cornered a leading 20% share of the symmetrical multi-processing market . |
| 25 | Goebbels 's rhetoric that ‘ the German people has never looked up to its Führer so full of belief as in the days and hours that it became aware of the entire burden of this struggle for our life ’ , and that far from being discouraged ‘ it stood all the more firmly and unerringly behind his great aims ’ , sounded even emptier than usual . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd better go up to my office . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We 'd better go up to my room , Your Majesty . |
| 28 | If you want to know any more about what he 's doing you 'd better go up to the camp and ask him yourself . ’ |
| 29 | You 'd better go up to you 're yeah it 's good . |
| 30 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |