Example sentences of "[noun pl] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When nature has provided you with a highly efficient set of incisors capable of cutting down more than 100 trees in one season , and an overriding instinct to build complex dams up to 4,000 ft. long and 12 ft. high , you can regard yourself as one of her senior architects and master builders . |
| 2 | If the scores are tied , then the referee panel will award the victory on the basis of their appraisal of both contestants ' performances up to the point where injury occurred . |
| 3 | Hence errors at a variety of levels ( from the interchanging of elements of adjacent words up to the abandoning of whole sentences ) are inevitable . |
| 4 | *****900 WORDS UP TO THIS POINT — THE 300 BELOW CAN BE DISCARDED IF NECESSARY |
| 5 | He could see Everett 's trips up to London , in the days before the electrification of the Wimbledon Railway . |
| 6 | I remember that when I had my first Meccano set , Dad made a simple hoist which was clamped to the table , a pulley was fixed to a hook above the mirror and my Teddy Bear used to go on trips up to the ceiling . |
| 7 | Three trips up to London . |
| 8 | In the concert-hall , this performance would earn deserved applause , but I 'm not sure that is stands up to the scrutiny that a recording invites . |
| 9 | Clare took snacks up to her — poached eggs , milky drinks — thinking she was probably exhausted by the change , and needed a couple of days in bed to recover . |
| 10 | At Everton today , Maddison squares up to Barry Horne , who left Saints in a £750,000 deal last summer . |
| 11 | COLIN McMILLAN ( left ) squares up to tonight 's opponent Ruben Palacio , whom Mac must deal with before he worries about Paul Hodkinson |
| 12 | The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production . |
| 13 | For the centuries up to the Tudor times the main instrument of local government outside the boroughs was the manor court , and the best introduction to the whole subject remains Life on the English Manor by H.S. Bennett . |
| 14 | From then on cylinders were usually made of iron , and much more powerful Newcomen engines were eventually built with cylinders up to 6 ft in diameter . |
| 15 | He lifted her threadbare ratteen skirt , feeling her legs up to the knee . |
| 16 | The last of these three exercises begins by raising the legs up to waist height , keeping the back straight and the eyes looking to the front . |
| 17 | I coughed and spluttered and gagged a few times , then fell back into Jamie 's arms , bringing my legs up to my chin to ease the ache in my stomach muscles . |
| 18 | The infusion of desire that rushed her was so immense that she obeyed instantly , drawing her legs up to his hips . |
| 19 | Hastily Paige drew her legs up to her chest , anchoring them with her arms . |
| 20 | I I I lift my legs up to my head . |
| 21 | shaving your legs up to . |
| 22 | Legs up to her armpits . |
| 23 | But in spite of the assurances of the District 's Executive Committee , his salary was almost continuously in arrears up to 1930 . |
| 24 | No rent has been paid since July but arrears up to the end of November are already the subject of a previous court order . |
| 25 | WOULD-BE MP No rent had been paid since July last year but arrears up to the end of November were already the subject of a previous court order and Mr Finnegan had arranged for his wife 's small income to be made available to cover those . |
| 26 | They are more expensive than the others but they do enable you to keep your lists up to date . |
| 27 | The hardware choice is actually simple : standard IBM AT clones from several dozen different manufacturers are now powerful enough to handle mailing lists up to several hundred thousand addresses . |
| 28 | Many Roman catholic schools up to 1968 were financed for capital expenditure by the local church as part of the church 's determination not to lose control of them . |
| 29 | The offer could save schools up to £1,500 a year in exam fees , which currently cost about £15 per entry . |
| 30 | Used by all Soviet pilot schools up to 1948 , over 100,000 pilots graduated on the type and it was extensively used post-war by aero clubs . |