Example sentences of "up to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when such annoyances are compounded by the strains of family living , what would cause one family annoyance might easily add up to long-term unhappiness in another family . |
| 2 | Together these add up to good badger country . |
| 3 | ‘ Good resettlement adds up to good recruitment . ’ |
| 4 | In the second quarter the better team play of the home side asserted itself and with good use of their right flank Mark Kendall and Roy Gordon showed up to good effect . |
| 5 | The thought of a hot lasagne at home cheered him up and helped him ignore the throb of a headache that had begun during the drive up to Kentish Town . |
| 6 | my mate lived down that area then he , he moved up to far end Keighley end |
| 7 | FORMER British middleweight champion Herol Graham moves up to super middleweight to fight Midlands area champion Carlos Christie in Manchester on January 25 . |
| 8 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 9 | Today we tend to work more with our Investigation teams who have much wider sources of information up to international level . |
| 10 | Funded by the European Community , the World Association of Nuclear Operators is co-ordinating an international effort to improve operating procedures at Kozloduy and bring them up to international safety standards . |
| 11 | Despite earlier statements , both public and private , by members of the new right-leaning administration in France that they had no intention of making any immediate change in France Telecom 's status , the government told the telephone operator 's board of directors meeting last week to consider spinning off its mobile telecommunications business and opening it up to international investment . |
| 12 | Pupils face up to real school life ‘ situations ’ e.g , bullying in school , cheating in exams and teenage gambling . |
| 13 | To begin with , there is ‘ learning by doing ’ which frequently involves relatively quite small alterations in techniques and/or practices but which , cumulatively , can add up to major productivity gains . |
| 14 | Throughout the long , hot summer they bloomed merrily right up to late autumn , while common or garden types like antirrhinum and nemesia wilted under the semi-tropical conditions . |
| 15 | Expo '92 is forecast to exceed all records as the biggest exhibition of its kind , but the important question is whether it will live up to long term expectations . |
| 16 | Its significance will be far-reaching , and this should be hardly surprising since similar considerations already dictate our legal and moral procedures for dealing with those human beings who , for whatever reasons , fail to measure up to normal competence . |
| 17 | Initially , this looked promising , but on turning the system up to normal stage volume I 'm afraid I was somewhat disappointed . |
| 18 | It may even be possible to make neat little ‘ scale-model ’ houses from normal wood , transport them cheaply around the country , and then ‘ puff ’ them up to final size on site . |
| 19 | When stepping forth with an idea , an individual may open himself up to personal rejection . |
| 20 | Given the interest of Bakeman and Brown in finding early signposts to later development , it seems ironic that their sophisticated and hard-won ‘ dialogic variables ’ should fail to match up to personal intuition . |
| 21 | After that it was up to private enterprise ! |
| 22 | To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm . |
| 23 | ‘ Palomine ’ cruises through '60s California , through new wave '70s , up to laid-back guitar regions of the underground '90s . |
| 24 | The immediate task , as he saw it , was to open foreign policy up to democratic pressure , so that both the disinterested masses and the interested merchants and manufacturers could concert their influence for peace against the machinations of militaristic bureaucrats and their allies in the aristocracy of finance . |
| 25 | The secretarial qualifications offered by the LCCI are GCSE equivalent level up to professional level . |
| 26 | Even if I had been sufficiently knowledgeable about the NHS funding system to counter his arguments , I still would n't have felt up to political sparring . |
| 27 | The idea of target setting based purely on ‘ doing better ’ without considering what the cost of that doing better is , just does not stand up to rational examination . |
| 28 | Firemen took to boats to reach those trapped in their homes as water rose up to door-top level . |
| 29 | Claudia closed her eyes and gave herself up to sheer sensation . |
| 30 | Stevenson , a quick-moving , stocky northerner with a distinguished record in every possible branch of the Met , was rumoured to be going up to Assistant Commissioner just as soon as the present incumbent retired . |