Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 2 | Michael Gannon is a former bookie who knows about odds and they 're adding up to a housing market where the buyer is king . |
| 3 | We 're coming up to a bank holiday , and most people will be going away . |
| 4 | Mm yes but we 're coming up to a time when er the quantity of old people is going to be rather high than before because we 're all healthier . |
| 5 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
| 6 | I had hardly time to see that a car had been driven up to a shop window and was now rapidly reversing out of it when two young men wearing stocking-masks and bundled up in thick clothing , making them unidentifiable , came rushing into the street , each swinging a bag of loot . |
| 7 | Roadside sensors at weather stations around the county are linked up to a computer system . |
| 8 | Phone bookings should be made up to a fortnight in advance on 0229 66063 . |
| 9 | A videodisc player can be connected up to a monitor or television set in the same way as a videocassette player . |
| 10 | In addition , employees may be granted up to a maximum of three days ' special leave . |
| 11 | The distance between the excitation and detection electrodes was chosen on the basis that the CSA can be measured up to a diameter of 4 to 5 times the interelectrode distance . |
| 12 | ‘ are significant improvements in watercourses either because one has managed to get a discharger to cause his discharge to cease or to be brought up to a standard where a very significant polluting input has stopped , and there is a corresponding improvement in the overall river system . |
| 13 | The levels of these may be increased up to a thousandfold over basal . |
| 14 | Within the last 20 years it was the practice here to pen the sheep for clipping and for the fleeces to be thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery , who put them at once into the barn for storage . |
| 15 | As goods are passed up to a division , the transfer price may include elements to cover profit and fixed costs . |
| 16 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 17 | Meanwhile back at Tenbury , the holly and mistletoe were fetching up to a pound for a pound in weight . |
| 18 | My parents were pointing up to a beam of light and saying ‘ Dumbo ’ . |
| 19 | We were coming up to a twist in the precipitous road ; as we swung round it , the wheels screamed and we seemed to swerve towards the edge of the precipice . |
| 20 | At clipping time the sheep were driven in and penned , and as they were clipped , the fleeces were thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery and put at once into the wool store . |
| 21 | You know what really worries me about this is that early on you said that tinkers deal in antiques , and I 'm beginning to wonder whether you , as antique dealer , have got a somewhat of an interest in this matter and maybe we should be taking care of you as a possible tenant of one of our sites , but this this is a typical example of all the thin , unreasonable excuses being put up to a party that 's trying to deal with something . |
| 22 | They were constructed up to a height of 50 feet in three or four storeys ( height of buildings was limited by Roman law ) . |
| 23 | The bursts were recorded up to a distance of 15–20 cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 24 | But note that you must use fittings and valves which comply with the water byelaws and that if the cold supply is connected up to a washing machine from the rising main , this will be at mains pressure while the hot supply ( if there is one ) will be at a lower pressure . |
| 25 | If you suspect that this is leading up to a tirade about vegetables suffering pain , flowers having feelings and ants being cleverer than humans , then I am sorry to disappoint you . |
| 26 | In some places , oil is packed up to a foot deep in the sand , according to the co-ordinator of Greenpeace 's expedition to the area . |
| 27 | It 's also worth knowing that the first £20,000 in a building society or bank is protected up to a set percentage . |
| 28 | This means that in the event of your death under the age of 65 , the outstanding balance on your CheckOver is repaid up to a maximum of £3,000 or your agreed limit whichever is the lower . |
| 29 | Aachen , Germany-based Parsytec GmbH 's US subsidiary in West Chicago has announced Parix , the ‘ second-generation ’ parallel Unix-based development environment developed for its indefinitely-forthcoming GC Series of T9000 Transputer-based MIMD supercomputers by Amsterdam-based Associated Computer Experts BV : aimed specifically at scientists and research engineers , it can be used on any Parsytec system with 16 or more nodes , which is hooked up to a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation as a front end ; a Parsytec 62-node MultiCluster I with Parix is from $100,000 . |
| 30 | If we issue an AutoCheque Card , every cheque you make out is guaranteed up to a maximum of £50 . |