Example sentences of "[vb base] up to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Build up to standard , not down to a price ’ was the motto of the Strand Theater Company , who had now so dramatically brought about the movie 's coming of age in Chicago . |
| 2 | We began to experience something of the build up to labour pains . |
| 3 | sorting out and then I 've got to go down to that conference and fly up to Stone Haven |
| 4 | For school librarians , SLG News , the School Librarian , Education Libraries Bulletin , School Library Journal , Emergency Librarian and Australian School Librarian provide up to date information on practice and research . |
| 5 | From here follow a very soggy but level path to Angle Tarn ( 1.5 miles ) in an impressive glacial corrie , and walk up to Ore Gap ( southwards 0.5 miles ) — the high passway between Bowfell and Esk Pike . |
| 6 | Mhm , when I started in here er I just got put up to work beside one of the women , she just showed me , |
| 7 | I would remind Ben that I put up To Bolt or Not To Be , a widely recognised 8b/c , in November 1986 ; that I have since climbed more than 20 routes of this level or more ; that I repeated the roof at Volx fairly easily in 1990 ; and that I have since put up two more 8cs — Huevos in 1991 and Macoumba Club recently at Orgon — in addition to Just Do It . |
| 8 | Publications such as the Hints to Exporters series and EIU quarterly reports ensure up to date information on most countries of the world . |
| 9 | Will news-gathering open up to market forces or continue to receive government protection in the name of the consumer 's interest ? |
| 10 | I mean , this lot did come in , only six months ago , announcing that everyone would have to stand on their own feet and not be rescued , and face up to competition , and all that . |
| 11 | Forcing children to acknowledge sexuality at an early age and face up to adult problems is not going to raise a generation of responsible adults — it is far more likely to breed a generation of confused and unhappy children . |
| 12 | In this process of revealing and sharing the head must manage the activities which add up to accountability . |
| 13 | Instead , one has to have a collection of gluons whose colors add up to white . |
| 14 | This means a punter can follow the price movements himself , or obtain up to date prices from his stockbroker . |
| 15 | And men like my husband Bernard , full of love and trust , look up to heaven with adoring eyes , victims of the phenomena of positive transference which the tortured so easily develops for his torturer , and plunge about in female flesh crying , ‘ Only procreate and all will be well . ’ |
| 16 | Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes play off against each other in a comedic buddy movie about two hustlers who team up to cream money off LA 's kerb-side courts , only to run up against problems with girls ( Rosie Perez , Tyra Ferrell ) and gangsters . |
| 17 | It should be noted before going any further that for a sample survey to be of any value at all the sampling procedure must be open to scrutiny and stand up to criticism . |
| 18 | In particular , both demand of their philosophical accounts that they stand up to criticism based on the history of science . |
| 19 | Does the Secretary of State agree that the individual totals announced today do not in all cases stand up to comparison with real-terms increases south of the border ? |
| 20 | I have looked at the evidence of so-called student hardship and I do not accept that the ’ scores ’ of cases stand up to examination . |
| 21 | Cliff could n't , she knew , stand up to bullying or sarcasm . |
| 22 | LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain . |
| 23 | LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain . |
| 24 | I howled with the pain , howled again when something like a mountain fell crushingly on me as Posi hurled us straight back up to Highlight . |
| 25 | Now , however medieval my proclivities , my bills are bang up to date , so I waved a sheaf of payment slips at the ghosts of the carvers and they vanished . |
| 26 | It is a typical Karajan project because in one respect it is enormously sophisticated — the technology is elaborate , expensive , and bang up to date — and in another it is very simple , inasmuch as its ultimate aim is nothing more or less than the lucid presentation of the music . |
| 27 | This thought brings us bang up to date . |
| 28 | ‘ And as you insist on leaving at the end of the month , ’ he added blandly , ‘ I 'd like everything — but everything — bang up to date . ’ |
| 29 | The story is brought bang up to date with chapters on the Falklands conflict and the more recent Gulf War . |
| 30 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |