Example sentences of "[vb infin] up to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract . |
| 32 | A new report has argued that Britain could recycle up to 80 per cent of its household waste by a combination of recycling banks and composting . |
| 33 | A giant plant than can recycle up to one hundred thousand tonnes of rubbish every year . |
| 34 | The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world … |
| 35 | Once inside a gallery , Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore . |
| 36 | Because the body is deep it means the bream can not simply sidle up to a bait , suck it into its mouth and move on , all in one motion . |
| 37 | Just as a human baby may draw comfort from sucking a dummy , so occasionally a baby elephant will sidle up to a young female and suck her milkless nipple . |
| 38 | I could sidle up to the hi-fi and turn it off , snap on the light-switch and announce quite calmly to all the sycophants here that Luke Denner is nothing more than a callous murderer . |
| 39 | They 'll be sitting there , probably in the lounge , wondering whether Father 's going to feed them anything or just give an impromptu lecture on cancer of the colon or tapeworms , when he 'll sidle up to somebody , look round to make sure everybody 's watching , then in a conspiratorial stage-whisper say : ‘ See that door over there ? |
| 40 | They will fund up to 90 per cent of the research in some areas and will coordinate the work through a new directorate . |
| 41 | At the centre , dispatchers keep track of taxis on monitor screens , which can display up to five cabs per pole . |
| 42 | There is a new VIDC 20 video controller , which can display up to 16m colours , and a new ARM 700 series of the CPU is now under development . |
| 43 | With narrow spacing , Composers Pen can clearly display up to twelve staves at a time , although the program can cope with up to 99 staves in any one composition . |
| 44 | This option can accommodate package structures up to 20 levels deep , and the scrolled area can display up to 20 package names . |
| 45 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 46 | The decoy can catch up to 1400 birds in a season . |
| 47 | A DC may reference up to 29 modules ( note that you should have a maximum of one package on any DC , to allow for successful approval ) and , at the time of approval , all referenced modules must be contained within the package through which the DC is activated . |
| 48 | ie. you may reference up to 29 modules , no module names or filenames may be duplicated and so on . |
| 49 | A DC may reference up to 29 modules ( note that you should have a maximum of one package on any DC , to allow for successful approval ) and , at the time of approval , all referenced modules must be contained within the package through which the work is being carried out . |
| 50 | If approved for a baby , go on to waiting list to be ‘ matched ’ — may wait up to 3 years or more for placement |
| 51 | Right : Beadlet anemones will survive up to 26° in tanks . |
| 52 | The group will be one of the largest of the new consortia now emerging in Lloyd 's and will insure up to $10m for each risk , with a ceiling of $25m for catastrophes in one zone . |
| 53 | As a Golf Plus Club Member you can enjoy up to a 20% discount on a year 's subscription to Britain 's best golf magazines bringing you the best pictures and best coverage of your favourite game . |
| 54 | Depending on when you make your purchases , you can enjoy up to 56 days interest-free credit . |
| 55 | Loopy Lil had n't a steady enough hand for spillikins and she could n't count up to more than three for the dominoes but she seemed happy to watch and smile . |
| 56 | If all the three guesses are wrong , the child in the middle must count up to ten and try again . |
| 57 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 58 | Who can count up to ten ? |
| 59 | You will meet another mother down the road , whose child is not yet three but knows the letters of the alphabet and can count up to 100 . |
| 60 | Why , I 've been told you can count up to fifty or sixty , on a good day . ’ |