Example sentences of "up to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is , they will not own up to their selectivity ( perhaps because in most cases , it is so biased as to be indefensible ) . |
| 2 | LEICESTER 'S Tigers lived up to their nickname in an outstanding display against a Grand Slam England XV . |
| 3 | That , that 's , that 's more of a , and they 're doing very little to start with , and then they rapidly get up to their top speed , and they level out . |
| 4 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
| 5 | To date nothing is known to their service with the RAF in India up to their transfer to the Indian Air Force on December 31 , 1947 . |
| 6 | It was in the summer holidays and Matthew was going to start school , so he he 's just had his fourth birthday just had his fourth birthday when he moved in here , the twins that were coming up to their second yeah Matthew like , like Gemma , Gemma yeah and by the time I knew you that were n't the summer after |
| 7 | was quite ready and anxious to permit their drawings for these cars to be used in order to ensure that the design would be at least up to their standard and no doubt both Hurst , Nelson and Brush held sets of copies of these drawings . |
| 8 | Our passing was n't up to their standard ( ! ) and we kept giving it away too often . |
| 9 | Few people are happy about the idea of an animal having to die so that either they or their pet can feed , and might well be prepared to eat a synthetic steak if one could be produced — and to serve it up to their cat . |
| 10 | Pilot Y stood the prop levers up to their max position and checked around the cockpit . |
| 11 | Toddlers , for example , can live up to their reputation as members of the species referred to as the ‘ terrible twos ’ . |
| 12 | In the way that military tactics fail by being repeated without regard to changed environment and situation , we expect people to live up to their reputation when the circumstances in which they are performing are very different . |
| 13 | About 80 daredevils , most in their 70s and 80s , plan to live up to their reputation for unparalleled courage . |
| 14 | The Blue Bridge Guard of four men marched up to their position one summer evening , which was a specially constructed guardroom or cabin alongside the bridge . |
| 15 | The Rugby Lions , who lived up to their epithet by tackling superbly throughout , found a champion of lost causes in full-back Mapletoft . |
| 16 | The great public services will be more rewarding to work in , and more successful in doing their job , when their purpose is seen to be pre-eminently that of living up to their title — serving the public . |
| 17 | After some twenty years delay — due to the intervening war — a start was made , in 1957 , on the Great West Road Extension through Chiswick , to meet the Cromwell Road extension being constructed by the London County Council up to their boundary on the Hammersmith — Chiswick border . |
| 18 | Their fear of Communism and the domino effect , had touched the entire country , and the US citizens felt it was up to their country to sort out the ‘ Reds ’ once and for all . |
| 19 | People have to stand up to their waist all day in water to earn 10 pence for a 50kg bag of coal . |
| 20 | Some parents complain that they feel rather awkward going up to their child , when ( for example ) she is not behaving badly , in order to say , ‘ You are painting so nicely , I really feel pleased ’ . |
| 21 | Radnorshire District Council have lived up to their name and have provided three ramps in their locality . |
| 22 | In the second half , the Mariners lived up to their name and made best use of the wind . |
| 23 | The latter lived up to their name with gusto by getting helplessly drunk , being in a celebratory mood because they 'd signed their lucrative CBS contract that very afternoon . |
| 24 | Over in the blue tent ( the roof of which unceremoniously blew off on Sunday just prior to kick off ) the SMASHING PUMPKINS lived up to their name and managed to smash the MD of Hut Records , their record company , on the head with a flying guitar , courtesy of singer Billy Colgan . |
| 25 | SPITFIRE — last minute replacements for the ironically ailing Dr Phibes — dig deep as well , living up to their name by frazzling the dreadheads with some painfully raw guitar trash . |
| 26 | The same theme is taken up by Hi-Tec , who are living up to their name — and their reputation — with the introduction of their new Tennis Twist shoe . |
| 27 | Living up to their name the love bird pair could n't stop reproducing . |
| 28 | Some characters live up to their dress : Peter Craze 's pig-tailed Banquo , earthy and violent , and Stephen Hattersley 's no-nonsense Macduff are a welcome contrast to Bolam 's King . |
| 29 | They may live up to their income . |
| 30 | Now it seems that successive governments have just have n't lived up to their obligation to wield the stick , and Harlow council just have n't had the sense to reach for the carrot in that that local people are caught in the middle ! |