Example sentences of "[vb -s] up to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That adds up to a good campaign in Labour 's view : no gaffes , lots of pictures , and a positive message delivered in controlled surroundings . |
| 2 | She thinks you suspect her and it seems to me that everything adds up to a good cause for her condition . ’ |
| 3 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 4 | That adds up to a great confrontation in today 's championship clash with title-holders Essex , with England captain Graham Gooch making an early return to Old Trafford where he hit one of the great Test centuries on Monday . |
| 5 | Clearly it all adds up to a great season ahead for the fans , who fought to keep speedway in Swindon . |
| 6 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 7 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 8 | Our friendly bar with its extensive range of beers , real ales and cocktails , combined with the latest music , dancing and entertainment , adds up to a memorable evening in a convivial atmosphere . |
| 9 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
| 10 | Cos each group adds up to a dotted quaver . |
| 11 | This seldom adds up to a coherent investment plan , but may be more simply described as a way of keeping things going until better days arrive . |
| 12 | This all adds up to a bleak picture for corporate UK . |
| 13 | Which all in all adds up to a Mediterranean type of diet — with porridge ! |
| 14 | We 've been frozen out there , and that order was worth a couple of million sterling , and that adds up to a hefty pile of wage packets . |
| 15 | Maintaining safety in the home is an expensive business and , for families with children , the purchase of recommended safety equipment — such as car safety seats , stair gates , a playpen and a cooker guard — adds up to a considerable sum . |
| 16 | This little difference adds up to a large saving . |
| 17 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 18 | Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago . |
| 19 | A short wall leads up to a horizontal break where good runners can be placed . |
| 20 | From the second-floor landing , a ladder-like stair , more steeply raked than those serving the lower floors , leads up to a large loft , wholly accommodated in the roof space of the main block , which was not exploited as living accommodation in the original conversion scheme . |
| 21 | And furthermore , do n't bother with guidebook descriptions or the like , just find the crag and climb the rock , dappled with lichen , tinged with red and bristle-tufted with pink-and-dark-green heather , which soars up to a narrow apex . |
| 22 | Only goes up to a certain height . |
| 23 | In all cases consent goes up to a certain point only . |
| 24 | But he must take care that what he creates builds up to a monolithic whole . |
| 25 | The noise builds up to a shattering roar . |
| 26 | Some models will drop very rapidly during the early part of the descent while the main rotor winds up to a suitable speed . |
| 27 | Minor conflicts occur with the couple trying to pacify her , this continues up to a black moment when the house relents and saves them and then I say and this is important I think when you write for a radio , I have marked one paragraph with red brackets . |