Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] [adv] [verb] up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A honey-bee colony , which may eventually contain up to eighty thousand individuals , is founded when a young queen hatches in an existing colony and emigrates , taking half of the workers with her . |
| 2 | Many people spend more time planning a holiday than in preparing for retirement , which may well occupy up to thirty years of life . |
| 3 | A car put away wet will feed water vapour into the air , which may then pass up into the room above |
| 4 | I know that our children by enlarge er their vocabulary does n't extend to erm what er , polysyllabic words which which might really sum up for an adult what they 've been going through , how they 've enjoyed it but what is the terrible form we had last year in seventh year , was it seven G ? |
| 5 | Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp says the Freedom 1000 and 3000 3D graphics accelerators that it is to sell on Sun Microsystems Inc platforms ( UX No 407 ) , have been designed as processor-independent units which could well end up on other CPU architectures in future , though none were mentioned specifically . |
| 6 | An energy source which could potentially supply up to ten times our energy needs for several thousand years is called an indefinitely sustainable energy source . |
| 7 | Going in the opposite direction was a bomb sight which would ultimately end up on the Hampden cockpit project at East Kirkby . |
| 8 | Edouard had never been to north Africa ; he was unprepared for the beauty of Algiers itself , and the magnificence of the surrounding country , with its rugged sunburned hills , its narrow winding roads which would suddenly open up on views of a vivid blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 9 | Then I asked , as we were going to go from century to century , if I could be allowed to collect a few bits of paraphernalia as we went along — odd little items that had taken my fancy which would then turn up in other stories . |
| 10 | BENTWORTH Aided School are to get a new play area which will also double up as an occasional overflow car park for the village hall . |
| 11 | The issues which will inevitably come up in one form or another include ‘ no first use ’ of nuclear weapons , about which a good deal has been written , not least in No-First-Use ( Blackaby et al . , |
| 12 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 13 | If you swim a lot , consider eye-lash tinting or a mascara such as Rimmel Waterproof , 10ml , £1.99 , which wo n't end up on your cheeks . |
| 14 | Right , erm , now are there any matters arising from the minutes which erm , you want to bring up now , which wo n't come up under any other heading ? |
| 15 | One of the things claimed for the Quad-FX is its ability to take an amp 's effects loop — one which wo n't line up with effects units — and correct the levels so it will . |
| 16 | In Spain Courtaulds Fibres , Barcelona , switched over to electronic mail two years ago , using a software package called DaVinci , which can easily link up with cc:Mail . |
| 17 | On top of the official fee of up to 10 yuan ( about $1 ) a term , many schools add on other charges , for repairing crumbling school buildings , topping up teachers ' meagre pay or buying books , which can easily add up to the equivalent of $10 a month . |
| 18 | Too often , noise has meant a level plane of abraded texture , which can merely add up to a different kind of blandness , a sense-dulling consistency . |