Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report in the British Journal of Addiction says some carrot junkies eat up to five bunches a day and become desperate if deprived of their fix . |
| 2 | In some cases long-term relationships grow up between casual workers and particular organizations In a few cases , Particularly In the banqueting establishments of a few large London hotels , where there is at least one " event " on most days of the week and most weeks of the year , there are some casuals who work effectively full-time for the organization concerned . |
| 3 | GTI has particular expertise in wood-burning gasifiers for making lime : its largest installation consumes about 0–8 tonnes of wood per tonne of lime produced ; traditional methods consume up to 2–5 tonnes of logs for the same result . |
| 4 | On that view it must be man 's deepest desire — need ? — purpose ? — satisfaction ? — to live in the way that is in this objective sense appropriate to him ( the fact that modern words break up into these alternatives expresses the modern break-up of Aristotle 's view ) . |
| 5 | And when the stars ' faces filled the whole screen so that you saw their huge lips close up like big pillows moving and their great teeth and their smooth matt skin filling the whole screen , it was frightening . |
| 6 | fifty five it 's a laser box the dragons light up in different colours , look see there 's nothing |
| 7 | Sessions take up to 20 children , last for 45 minutes and include songs , games and stories . |
| 8 | The songs contain up to eight themes , each one consisting of repeated phrases . |
| 9 | Whereas computer-tomography devices in medicine use as many as 700 detectors to produce images in 3 seconds , the portable unit 's three sensors need up to 10 hours to make a respectable picture ( though spot checks for cracks and rottenness can be made much faster ) . |
| 10 | Not only do cross-border calls cost up to six times as much as domestic calls of equal distance , but technical standards , tariffs , service and transmission quality change wherever a telephone line crosses a dotted line on a map . |
| 11 | The task was expensive : in the early nineteenth century , plates engraved for the Royal Society 's Philosophical Transactions cost up to twenty guineas . |
| 12 | From the end of the seventeenth century , turnpike trusts set up under private acts of parliament began to appear . |
| 13 | It seems clear from the surviving images that emperors took interest in and approved the form of their portraits , particularly those that would be seen by many of their subjects on coins and statues set up in public places . |
| 14 | The best companies pay up within thirty days and take pride in doing so . |
| 15 | Whether or not this control and its prerequisite knowledge remain as properties of a single ‘ command ’ module , or shift about heterarchically , both views are forms of what I shall later want to call a ‘ light up ’ view of consciousness : as in a pinball machine different areas light up at different times depending on the state of the game . |
| 16 | A very few forward-looking companies follow up on these courses by allowing employees to cut down to a four-day week from six months before retirement , reducing again to a three-day week in the last three months . |
| 17 | The adult female , initially the same size as the male , becomes twice as large after fertilization as the ovaries swell up with developing eggs . |
| 18 | The ability of a bigger bank to absorb a smaller one into its systems is a main reason why purchases of smaller banks bring up to three times bigger savings than mergers of equals . |
| 19 | The culprits face up to ten years in jail or an unlimited fine . |
| 20 | Many pilots give up at 1000 feet when there is still a fair chance of finding something and getting away safely . |
| 21 | JUN 1992 TOP post boxes and notice boards set up at various locations around the site and in mess rooms to communicate TOP news . |
| 22 | The establishment of a new academic library often affords an insight into the way collections measure up to such standards as exist . |
| 23 | The move came amidst concern about the high levels of bad debt carried by the Nigerian banking system , particularly that held by some of the smaller banks set up in recent years . |
| 24 | The HIDB and the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno are both examples of intermediate institutions set up with intersectoral mandates to assist disadvantaged areas . |
| 25 | Contemporary concerns with the dangers posed to the rights of individuals by incorrect information are reflected in the laws and institutions set up on national levels to protect individuals against incorrect data and the implications that might arise from any errors . |
| 26 | Ports face up to competitive pressures |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got four old Vickers guns set up in strategic positions , so neither group should be able to get in . |
| 28 | The responsibility would stretch from duties to the manufacturers — like Fiat , Ford , Renault , Honda , Toyota , Mercedes Benz and Peugeot — to the smell and content of the fuel , the quality of the tyres , the size , shape and speed of the cars and the overall image of a business in which , when people talk of budgets , the figures ring up in unreal lines of noughts . |
| 29 | So the diffraction of laser photons becomes a novel form of Bragg reflection , which effect showed originally that X-rays are electromagnetic waves and that atoms in solids line up in ordered arrays . |
| 30 | They encountered no difficulties en route , although they had to traverse one of the most dangerous ambush points in all South Scotland , at Pease Dean , where the Lammermuirs came directly down to the coast in steep wooded slopes cut up by deep ravines , and round which travellers had to wend their narrow , devious way . |