Example sentences of "[verb] up to [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This adds up to more good marks than most cars get . |
| 2 | The injustice of it all , the knowledge that Spiderglass possessed her and there was nowhere she could hide from them with their tracer in her head , the certainty that Karel could blackmail her with her string of crimes pushing her ever deeper into the mire — it all added up to just one thing . |
| 3 | A shorter and easier route of ascent may be made from Birkdale Summit , the top of the B6270 road linking Kirkby Stephen and Keld , by making the car do most of the climbing ; the ribbon of tarmac spirals up to almost 1700 feet where there is parking space . |
| 4 | In this case , the offender would be liable ( at the discretion of the sentencing court ) to be ordered to be returned to prison to serve up to almost six years of the original sentence , in addition to whatever sentence is imposed for the latest offence . |
| 5 | It has , however , not been shown up to now that eradication of H pylori modifies parietal cell mass or acid secretion rates . |
| 6 | In recent years , it 's been nice to know that I could decide to take my wife Lizzie on Concorde and not have to ask permission from the bank manager , but I 've never really gone in for extravagances — they all add up to too many paper rounds . |
| 7 | As teachers , we should notice that a clear understanding of the formal connections between sentences may help to explain one of the ways in which foreign language students sometimes write supposedly connected sentences , each of which is well-formed in itself , but which somehow add up to very strange discourse . |
| 8 | These are the pampering touches — they make your holiday special and add up to very good value for money . |
| 9 | In sum , all of these developments add up to more intense competition for the foreseeable future . |
| 10 | Burton pulled the struggle out into the open and made this ‘ thing ’ that was himself stand up to as many trials as he could imagine . |
| 11 | At the moment , no law requires any company or research organisation to notify the HSE of its intention to scale up to fully commercial production in the field of genetic manipulation . |
| 12 | First , they need a well proven advanced technology to minimise the risk of moving from a departmental system supporting up to maybe 100 users to hundreds if not thousands of users . |
| 13 | First , they need a well-proven advanced technology to minimise the risk of moving from a departmental system supporting up to maybe 100 users to hundreds if not thousands of users . |
| 14 | It 's a period of facing up to radically new cost levels . |
| 15 | And how many people can be sure of things about themselves when they 've been brought up to please other people ? |
| 16 | and then we went up to more interactive things . |
| 17 | The boats , the same shape at the bow and the stern and often painted in very bright colours , can stand up to very high seas . |
| 18 | Thirty thousand people are expected to turn up to nearly forty hours of music . |
| 19 | They sang every song they knew , which between them did not add up to very many songs . |
| 20 | The levels were then topped up to around 20 metres and final tests were carried out before being handed back to operations . |
| 21 | In fact , you could quite happily keep four specimens in a 4′ tank for up to a couple of years , before having to step up to more comfortable accommodation . |
| 22 | They also work up to very high frequencies ( ∼50 MHz ) , because the heated wire exhibits negligible inductance , and are often used in the measurement of radio-frequency signals . |