Example sentences of "[adj] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For reasons which are both obscure and immaterial , there was considerable delay in this report coming to the attention of the local authority having the care of J. When in January 1992 it did come to the authority 's notice , Dr. I. was asked to provide a further up to date report and in addition the authority obtained a second opinion from Dr. R. , a consultant paediatric neurologist with a London teaching hospital . |
| 2 | She flung herself on the end of the bed and began to bring him further up to date . |
| 3 | As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action . |
| 4 | As the high water mark was half up to what we call the outer bogs at Houseby . |
| 5 | BUILDING societies were called to an emergency meeting by the Department of the Environment this week in an attempt to defuse the growing crisis , over contaminated concrete blocks which is threatening to make unmortgageable up to 40 per cent of the housing stock in Cornwall and parts of Devon . |
| 6 | Brian Watts , managing director of B. E. Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England , pays chefs between £8,000 and £17,000 per year , but the financial benefits of the bank 's employee package ( cheap mortgages and pensions , etc ) , bring this up to considerably more in real terms . |
| 7 | Until a couple of days before the price was announced Warburg was working towards a Fr70 price , and only pushed this up to Fr72 ( 707p ) when it saw how strong demand was . |
| 8 | It will be seen that English law does this up to a point , and in the process seems to accept social-defence arguments as reasons for departing from several of the principles set out in Chapter 3 . |
| 9 | If you keep this up to date , then you can plan each day or week in advance , inserting where , when and for how long you are going to walk . |
| 10 | In these circumstances , increasing energy expenditure helps , too — by which I mean generally moving around as much as possible , doing a lot of brisk walking and speeding this up to running pace if you are young . |
| 11 | Its unique refill system makes it very economical — when you have finished one bottle simply take the pump-mechanism out and put it in a refill — you can do this up to ten times . |
| 12 | Specialists paid £50,000 a year by the NHS can push this up to as much as £300,000 in private practice . |
| 13 | Its own fund-raising activities bring this up to around £200,000 per annum , a figure now insufficient to cover its present needs . |
| 14 | Burton 's local fame grew in contradicting this up to a point — but only up to a point . |
| 15 | Presumably , the rational shareholder would do this up to the point at which marginal benefit was equated with marginal cost . |
| 16 | Altogether £345.15 was collected by fair means or foul and the Company has very generously rounded this up to £500 . |
| 17 | Thus in cheap years a family with three children were guaranteed 9s ( 45p ) , while the doubling of the bread allowance in dearer ones would bring this up to 12s ( 60p ) . |
| 18 | Er , I 've now added the research approval form and it 's become a related document here but in the original allocation of forms , the responsibility for keeping this up to date was not mine . |
| 19 | It would pay you to run this up to Sotheby 's for evaluation , they 've got a man there who specialises in things like this . |
| 20 | Thursday Friday Now just check put the new piece of paper yes Publications Okay I 'm just er bringing this up to date so Monday Tuesday Wednesday evenings in fact you need er sorry Sunday Monday and Tuesday okay . |
| 21 | But now I think they do n't many so it 's not you know this up to sort of like thirteen they 've been taught constantly once to that age . |
| 22 | Here Dawn take this up to the children . |
| 23 | On one final sweep with the binoculars , however , I saw a clearer patch of water to the south , with the waves breaking further inshore , some of which were rolling clear up to the low rocky cliffs . |
| 24 | In the wet , the broad ridge high up to the left is preferable , leading along to the conspicuous profile of Alport Castles — a huge landslip where millions of tons of shales and grits slid forward to create a spectacular feature above the hamlet of Alport . |
| 25 | A 10ft long mains lead and a 12ft steam hose made it easy to reach high up to ceiling level and far away from the socket outlet . |
| 26 | The tall storeroom on the ground floor , just beyond the kitchen , stretched high up to the rafters and Helen knew it would take a sleeping gallery . |
| 27 | The window was to high up to be reached by the captive , though the could poke her head out to be fed . |
| 28 | Dressed soberly in a long-sleeved , ankle-length tunic which , though cut loosely , came high up to her neck , she approached him with both hands extended in greeting . |
| 29 | ‘ They 're leveraged up to their ears , ’ he says . |
| 30 | For periods beginning on or after 1 April 1991 , payments are tax free up to 20% of pay , or £4,000 if lower . |