Example sentences of "be [to-vb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did I realize how difficult it would be to face up to going back . |
| 2 | Both require frequent use of the gearbox if they are to live up to expectations . |
| 3 | Appropriate opportunities for advancement ( promotion , better pay and other forms of recognition for increased skills and experience ) must be provided if we are to live up to principles of social and economic justice . |
| 4 | The Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer were ordered to examine Domesday Book and other records and documents in the Exchequer and Treasury which might throw light on this question , and to report to the Council : former officers of the Forest , such as Hugh Despenser , were to deliver up to the Chancellor and Treasurer all relevant documents in their possession and custody . |
| 5 | This should be supported by the health service as part of the programme of development that any large organisation must adopt if it is to remain up to date and use its resources cost effectively . |
| 6 | Shell is to open up to 1,000 food shops on its garage forecourts in order to compete with the food retailers that have started selling petrol on their superstore sites . |
| 7 | The borough council is to visit up to 1,500 business premises in the town to check safety and health standards . |
| 8 | British Coal is to axe up to eleven hundred jobs in four pits in Yorkshire . |
| 9 | There is nowhere to run to … it is your first night , Englishman , you have to learn of a new world , you have to be patient if it is to give up to you its secrets . |
| 10 | All we need to do now , we are told , is to wake up to the fact that we are God . |
| 11 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a ‘ several hundred million dollar ’ piece of action with PRC Systems Inc , prime contractor for the $2.5bn AFCAC 300 US defence contract : HP is to supply up to 5,200 Unix workstations to PRC over the next five years . |
| 12 | There 's plenty wrong with the world right now , but it 's all we 've got , and the only way forward is to face up to it . |
| 13 | The thing to do , Bob , is to face up to the fact right from the beginning that it 's going to be something Victorian or Edwardian , and that it 's going to be in some slightly less fashionable postal district . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Devenish is to spend up to £180million to more than double its pub chain . |
| 16 | The COMPstation 99 Superscalar Series in September is to feature up to two 36MHz or 40MHz processors and do 64.7 SPECmarks . |
| 17 | His technique was to go up to one at a literary party and ask her for a cigarette . |
| 18 | She decided that her best hope was to go up to the belvedere and see if she could find any indication at all that someone else had been involved in Gebrec 's death . |
| 19 | I was to go up to his room and tap on the door . |
| 20 | The very last thing she wanted was to go up to Rune 's apartment and drink any more of that transmogrifying liquid that already had so much to answer for ! |
| 21 | ‘ Once she had the key , and whilst her husband signed the formalities , she was to go up to her room , put the handbag containing the Tongue — and money , pearls , and so on — on a ledge as near as possible to a door which was going to be left deliberately ajar . |
| 22 | The manager 's task was to remain up to date with the changes , to encourage a confident understanding of the purpose and methods of assessment and to make sense of the ambiguity which surrounded questions of parental and governors ' access to the assessments . |
| 23 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |