Example sentences of "[to-vb] up to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 2 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 3 | But it would be desperately hard , in the Arab world , to stand up to a man who could portray himself as a ( literally ) world-defying champion of Palestinian rights . |
| 4 | Since a much-used living room has to stand up to a lot of traffic , it needs a superior quality , heavy duty carpet of either 100 per cent wool or 80 per cent wool/20 per cent nylon . |
| 5 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 6 | By the late seventeenth century , with its economic base vulnerable and its spiritual authority flouted , the Church was ill equipped to stand up to an increasingly dynamic State . |
| 7 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 8 | On being able to stand up to the USSR , Thatcher scored 80 per cent in the precampaign week , easing to 79 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |
| 9 | In the longer term the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees tried to help individual farmers to eke out an adequate living , encourage the organization of small farmers at the village level , and foster the growth of a farming structure better able to stand up to the rigours of occupation than the present one in which middlemen and large landowners dominated agriculture . |
| 10 | The problem is to develop a device which as well as demonstrating a high degree of efficiency in converting wave energy into electricity , is also robust enough to stand up to the buffeting and corrosion of the sea . |
| 11 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 12 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 13 | Since this high work of fracture — which makes trees able to stand up to the buffetings of life and which makes wood such a useful material — can not be accounted for by any of the recognized work of fracture mechanisms which operate in man-made composites , George set out to find out what was really happening . |
| 14 | They spoke after the borough council 's planning committee decided last night to stand up to the Home Office by objecting to the £14 million expansion , intended to ease the prison 's long-standing and often chronic overcrowding problem . |
| 15 | He was about to stand up to the policeman when Duncan spoke . |
| 16 | A Japanese-led bloc of Asian nations would be militarily and economically secure , and able to stand up to the threat posed by the nations of Europe and by the United States . |
| 17 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
| 18 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 19 | But what a pity that , when the heat was on — when the law of the land was being challenged by Labour councillors up and down the country , and by Members of Parliament — the Opposition Front Bench was found wanting , and failed to stand up to the rule of law . |
| 20 | However , much of the hostility aroused by the subcommittee 's report appeared to be directed towards the United Kingdom government , which was widely accused of failing to stand up to the Chinese over Hong Kong 's future . |
| 21 | For many Arabs the invasion of Kuwait confirmed Saddam as the foremost pan-Arab nationalist leader and the first Arab ruler since Egypt 's Abdel Gamal Nasser who was fully prepared to stand up to the USA . |
| 22 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 23 | It should be robust enough to stand up to the most rigorous testing from the appraisal panel . |
| 24 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 25 | He was the first commoner to stand up to the might of the king . |
| 26 | ‘ It took a great deal of courage for one man to stand up to the tobacco industry . |
| 27 | I think Chris Patten is right to stand up to the Chinese , even though it may make very little difference in the end . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the ‘ Lady Mayoress ’ kept gathering up her skirts and hitching up her bosom as ‘ she ’ jumped from the trap in order to dash up to the houses and implant a big kiss on the cheeks of the inhabitants . |
| 29 | What would 've happened if absolute egalitarianism had been pursued and absolute egalitarianism had worked and there was enough land for everybody to come up to a middle peasant status and you 'd created an absolutely e equal society ? |
| 30 | I chose my family , and just waited for the big boys to come up to the Birkdale area . |