Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs — The V+UP+TO Family (C2)

The party is going to have to up to the uncomfortable arithmetic of the last three by-elections and the implications it carries for its strategy in the run-up to the general. (one word)

After nearly three weeks of stonewalling at every press conference, the junior minister was finally persuaded to up to his role in the misleading briefing that had caused the original embarrassment. (one word)

The third novel in the trilogy, much anticipated after the runaway success of the second, simply does not up to the expectations that those of us who reviewed the first two volumes had quite reasonably formed. (one word)

On every objective metric — clinical outcomes, satisfaction scores and waiting times — the new hospital simply does not yet up to the regional benchmark set by the unit it was supposed to replace. (one word)

For all its undeniable visual flair and the talent on display in every department, the production never quite up to the standard set by the same director's earlier Stratford season. (one word)

Few of the so-called heir-apparent restaurants opening in the wake of his retirement seem really to up to the standard that he set during the long years at the original site near the harbour. (one word)

When the original lead developer left at very short notice, it was Priyanka who up to the plate and held the entire delivery schedule together through the second and third release cycles. (one word)

On all the available indicators, the second quarter is up to be the most difficult three-month stretch the entire retail sector has had to confront since the pandemic year. (one word)

A surprising number of the witness statements that seemed quite compelling at the original committee hearing have simply not up to the more forensic scrutiny applied during the formal inquiry. (one word)

Although several members of the older generation in the audience took a noticeably long time to up to her unconventional staging, by the second act even they appeared to be quietly carried along by it. (one word)

Several major institutional investors are belatedly up to the scale of the climate-transition risk that has been embedded in their fixed-income portfolios for the best part of a decade. (one word)

Until the trustees are willing to face up rebuilding the entire long-term funding model rather than tinkering with the year-by-year revenue, the same crisis will recur each January. (one word)

In her resignation statement, the editor became one of the very few senior media figures in recent years to own up having signed off on a story she now accepts was insufficiently sourced. (one word)

Even her sternest critics, of whom there are quite a few in this town, would have to admit that the new conductor has fully lived up the formidable reputation she brought with her from Vienna last August. (one word)

Two months into the new academic year, the department's pastoral arrangements were still not quite to scratch, despite the assurances given to incoming students at the open day in June. (one word)