Example sentences of "[vb base] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The canes , which grow up to 5ft tall , are bright green to purplish in colour . |
| 2 | It reminded me of when I was a teacher and watched one of my pupils , Dan Waterman , grow up to be a fireman . |
| 3 | ‘ Smooth Angel ’ , white with a pink flush and the pink ‘ Smooth Lady ’ , grow up to 1.5m , while the magenta rose ‘ Smooth Velvet ’ reaches about 1.2m . |
| 4 | The best wines are made from the highest vines northwest of Grauves , which grow up to a height of 220 metres , and from those in an east-facing gulley , south-west of the village . |
| 5 | Unless they see through the game , such children grow up to be victims and martyrs themselves . |
| 6 | The branching stems grow up to about 24ins ( 60cms ) in length . |
| 7 | They grow up to 3ins ( 7½cms ) in length and up to 3/4 inch ( 2cms ) in width . |
| 8 | Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment . |
| 9 | I have come to suspect that the underlying motive to help younger people grow up to be confident , competent adults , and to derive pleasure from doing so , is something that a person can bury , ignore or conceal , but not amputate . |
| 10 | These attractive plants grow up to 2ft tall and have lilac blue flowers with the petals on the circumference much larger than those in the centre . |
| 11 | Even a formerly nomadic group , the Paumari in Amazonia grow 14 cultivars of the easily transported cassava and some other groups there grow up to 400 different types of plants ( cultivars as well as cultigens ) ; some clear fell the forest , others merely ‘ weed ’ it . |
| 12 | A sense of responsibility in the children that we help , that they all grow up to be responsible adults . |
| 13 | While industry sources suggest up to 200 could be employed , Lesli O'Dowd estimates the likely figure at less than a quarter of that , with perhaps as few as 10–15 jobs for local people . |
| 14 | It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth . |
| 15 | All modems hook up to a serial port . |
| 16 | The event was part of the build up to Forbidden Britain Day on Sept 29 , when the ramblers plan mass trespasses at dozens of locations . |
| 17 | They usually build up to a God 's eye view of the causal processes slowly , starting from a simple relationship , imagining how it might be more complex , testing to see if that is in fact the case , and so on . |
| 18 | Doctors agree that there are no risks in regular exercise , as long as you start gently and gradually build up to the more strenuous activities . ’ |
| 19 | We began to experience something of the build up to labour pains . |
| 20 | After running the filter for a few days , stock with just a couple of fish to begin with , and gradually build up to full stocking . |
| 21 | Of course there are lines that Keith does in second verses , melodic lines which build up to the chorus , and then it all apexes at the solo , hopefully . ’ |
| 22 | The resistance to this shearing will start at nothing , build up to a maximum , and decline again to zero when the atoms get to the top of the hump . |
| 23 | ‘ Build up to standard , not down to a price ’ was the motto of the Strand Theater Company , who had now so dramatically brought about the movie 's coming of age in Chicago . |
| 24 | But foxes that get mange die in three or four months — the mites build up to several thousand per square centimetre of skin , and so one fox may have more than a million mites ; its suffering must be awful . |
| 25 | Does detail build up to a whole or is detail obtained by microscoping the whole ? |
| 26 | I 'll take a shorter run up and build up to it gradually . |
| 27 | build up to the |
| 28 | IN A WARM UP TO THE EVENING Standard newspaper 's five a side football competition , a team from Guinness Brewing GB called the Harp Beaters was entered into the preliminary competition on the day before the main tournament . |
| 29 | Among the most cost-effective holidays to Euro Disney are those run by Eurocamp ( 0565–633844 ) which sells accommodation in a 130-acre ‘ wilderness retreat ’ where guests stay in log-cabin- style trailers which sleep up to six people . |
| 30 | In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period . |