Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] [vb pp] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , the Somerset bowling has n't quite lived up to the predictions . |
| 2 | Both Gary Smith and Barry Dowdeswell , chief executive of the Royal Victoria Infirmary , Newcastle 's oldest teaching hospital , agreed that the acute hospitals had only just woken up to community care . |
| 3 | This was BBC Television , an off-shoot of the world-renowned and world-respected BBC Radio service that had so admirably lived up to its motto to ‘ educate , inform and entertain' the general public throughout the war . |
| 4 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |
| 5 | Or : ‘ The swift blinking of his eyes and the trembling of his sensitive hands … aroused feelings in him that he had not ever owned up to even to himself ’ ? |
| 6 | No that 's not correct because I 've also already called up to P C into that master bedroom when I 've left or as I was about to handcuff er the man . |
| 7 | And the problem is that the left , inside and outside the Labour Party , and the trade union movement , have not yet measured up to that historic requirement . |
| 8 | For every complaint that you have there may be 20 dissatisfied people that have n't actually come up to the school to make their feelings known — they do n't even tell you that they are upset . |
| 9 | Mhairi McMillan , a counsellor at St Andrews University , said : ‘ There may be a sense of glamour attached to a tutor or a lecturer for somebody who 's maybe just come up to university or working their way through . |