Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five classes are of mixed ability and each has up to eight children of similar age and/or developmental level . |
| 2 | For instance , of the 68 such buildings at West Stow , six had been used for weaving , some producing up to 100 loomweights used to tension the warp-threads of an upright loom ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 3 | Menem also indicated that Argentina , in return for EC aid and improved trading arrangements , would be prepared to accept up to 300,000 immigrants from the former Eastern bloc over the next three years ; he discussed with EC commissioners the possible arrival of 40,000 immigrants in the short term . |
| 4 | At a meeting this May the Agricultural Ministers agreed that reform was necessary and gave each other a deadline of June 1993 to come up with concrete proposals . |
| 5 | As we have seen , some prior harmonization of standards of authorization and supervision will be necessary but , those limited conditions having been met , banks will then be free to set up in other states . |
| 6 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 7 | Each interview — some last up to 11 hours — is a recorded autobiography . |
| 8 | In general this piling up of biblical texts in the exposition of elementary notions and principles , with the biblical quotations buttressing each other up and introducing ideas foreign to the main theme , creates confusion in the minds of simple average souls who are the majority among good Christians ( Capovilla , 1978a , p. 546 ) . |
| 9 | New French findings hint that the tetrapods probably hopped like kangaroos , as their tracks show left and right hind footprints in parallel , rather than alternating , some reaching up to two-metre intervals . |
| 10 | Average price for a home is £3 million but some fetch up to three times more . |
| 11 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
| 12 | Conservative treatment with long term cyclophosphamide was effective in both stage I and stage IV disease , and all the patents are alive after a median follow up of 4.5 years . |
| 13 | Over 90% of the study population was successfully traced , with a median follow up of 14 years . |
| 14 | Dufeck , also in 1990 described his experience with the procedure in 15 patients , five ( 33% ) of whom developed biliary complications , two requiring surgery , and three a repeat endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography to establish drainage ; 13 patients were symptom free at a median follow up of 25 months . |
| 15 | The new series 6000i Model 640 supports up to 32 users and is suitable for small businesses , workgroups and development environments . |
| 16 | This carries up to eight channels of sound for each vision channel and opens up the prospect of broadcasting a soundtrack in several languages simultaneously . |
| 17 | The distances doctors cover are a great waste of time … some spend up to four hours a day walking from department to department . |
| 18 | For this reason it is impossible to come up with universal rules dictating how explanations are to be provided . |
| 19 | This challenge to ‘ universalism ’ need not pose in its place a simple relativism or a mere piling up of empirical descriptions . |
| 20 | For the same reasons , it would be easy to end up with different versions at different locations , especially if the users themselves have the capability to modify the expert system . |
| 21 | With an average follow up of eight months , no cases of reobstruction were seen in seven patients . |
| 22 | Members aged from five to fifty meet up to three times a week to practise their judo moves together . |
| 23 | But if manufacturers were to try too hard to come up with new ideas we 'd be constantly faced with designs to rival Gibson 's semi-mythical Moderne and Burns ' Flyte in the grossness stakes . |
| 24 | Both Soviet and foreign estimates of the numbers threatened with starvation and death over the period 1921–2 varied enormously , and no amount of detailed research is ever likely to come up with reliable figures . |
| 25 | These came up in some numbers right from the beginning to the end of this strip . |
| 26 | Compared with the compensation payments introduced during the first stage of price liberalization , these went up from 750 lei to 2,100 lei per month for workers , and from 400 lei to 1,470 lei for pensioners , while there were also increases in child benefits , maternity benefits and student grants . |
| 27 | Yet the schools they attend are , on the whole , not as good in terms of status , teacher input and , sometimes , physical surroundings ; they make less use of the educational system beyond the compulsory school stage ; they are less likely to pass government examinations and go on to university ; and they are far more likely to end up in manual occupations , just like their fathers and mothers . |
| 28 | The 2nd KONR Div. , formed at Heuberg , was now mobilised ; and the 1st Div. , to the exasperation of Field-Marshal Schörner , marched south from the Oder to link up with these compatriots . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) A Court Scheme is likely to take up to ten weeks to implement after all paperwork has been prepared and agreed . |
| 30 | These take up to eighteen months to disappear . |