Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Around 30% of the current output consists of high-quality West of England cloth , the remainder made up with technical fibres such as nylons , polyesters and polyamides .
2 However , Karen 's quick intelligence and enthusiasm make up for any problems caused by her disability , and Janet says , she 's a big asset to the salon .
3 The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance .
4 The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance .
5 With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex .
6 The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) .
7 Although the Democrats had recaptured control of both the Senate and the House , there remained a conservative majority made up of southern Democrats and Republicans .
8 Under the contract , a copy of which was leaked to the media , Nur Elmy Osman , describing himself as " minister of state for health , Republic of Somalia " , granted Acher a 20-year concession to treat up to 550,000 tons a year of industrial and hospital waste , including " solid and liquid waste of the toxic type " , at a disposal facility in Somalia and to store the treated waste in a landfill .
9 From this group emerged a curriculum made up of various modules , for example about document preparation and text processing , database management and data modelling , and graphical and statistical analysis .
10 The world at that instant splits up into many worlds , in each of which one of the possible results of the measurement is the one that actually occurs .
11 Today is an Edinburgh holiday and so I have a day off — a good opportunity to catch up with various things , and the plumber is arriving shortly to re-seal my bath .
12 Over 40 former staff took the opportunity to catch up with old friends and discuss their pension queries with Beryl Aldridge from Pensions Department , Hammersmith .
13 Now the company want permission to work up to 20 Sundays in any year from 7.30am until 4.30pm .
14 This is always a very popular event , one where you have the opportunity to meet up with old friends and we hope make new ones ; so please obtain your tickets early to avoid disappointment .
15 There would be opportunities here for a cross-European sharing of expertise built up around bilingual skills .
16 In this chapter , we have assumed the worst possible case — i.e. the syntax/semantics component needs up to ten words of the utterance in order to prefer one of the alternatives — and this is why the statistics are based on the total number of complete word strings derived from the different kinds of input to the lexical access component .
17 And so there they , they claim that his childhood was relevant , because of this character defect in , in Wilson , his inability to stand up to strong men .
18 Newbridge Networks Corp reports that the Financial Network Association made up of 12 telecommunications companies , has chosen Newbridge to supply network management products for its global financial network : the Association includes Bell Canada Inc and MCI Communications Corp ; construction and testing is due for completion in June , with customer trials and service to follow ; Stentor , the Canadian consortium that includes Bell Canada , is global network administrator .
19 Then we then he says , then wha well cos what we 're saying is , then if your barrelage goes up to four barrels , say
20 The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf .
21 The head of state is the President of the Republic ( currently Francesco Cossiga ) , elected for a seven-year term by an electoral college made up of both Houses of Parliament and 58 regional representatives .
22 The head of state is the President of the Republic , elected for a seven-year term by an electoral college made up of both Houses of Parliament and 58 regional representatives .
23 One of the most significant changes in the labour market in the twentieth century is the rising proportion of the labour force made up of married women returning to work after completing their families .
24 In year 3 , demand has risen to 3,000 units so that the desired capital stock goes up to thirty machines — since the firm already has twenty , another ten must be purchased .
25 In human terms the loss adds up to 800 jobs in Digital and 2,000 more depending directly on orders , supplies and service .
26 Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period .
27 The Royal Air Force wants up to 2000 rounds of whichever type the ministry selects .
28 I will be true despite thy scythe and thee ’ ) , in Sonnet 116 the Friend seems to have receded into the background while the poet stands up for all men ; Although the poet 's love is included in the affirmation , I would agree with Ingram and Redpath in seeing the poem rather as ‘ a meditative attempt to define perfect love ’ .
29 The World Bank has announced that its report for 1992 is to be dedicated to the themes of environment and development following the momentum built up around these issues as a result of the UNCED conference , to be held in Brazil in the same year .
30 Pyramid says up to four machines each with 24 processors can be configured to dynamically share the Oracle database , which increases transaction throughput to the database threefold and significantly improves data availability to users .
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