Example sentences of "[vb pp] up to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 2 | These two incidents hardly added up to a minimal knowledge of the principality . |
| 3 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
| 4 | Lifted up to a new level and a new nearness to our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 5 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
| 6 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
| 7 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
| 8 | All pipe materials can be painted : copper can be polished up to a fine shine if you like the ship 's engine room effect . |
| 9 | The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill . |
| 10 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
| 11 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 12 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 13 | He had three sons : James , a weaver , who lived in a little cottage without a chimney at Newton ; Jacob , a tailor of Brandwood who died young ; and Thomas , a labourer , who set up home in ‘ a poore pitifull hutt , built up to an old oake ’ at the side of Divlin Lane . |
| 14 | The basic characteristic of the H.T. is that the flowers are invariably double with so many petals — sometimes to their detriment in wet weather — that the centre becomes pushed up to a high point — in the classic shape that everybody likes to see . |
| 15 | This would enable parcels of instruments to be made up to a given value , type or maturity for sale and thus improve their marketability . |
| 16 | the anniversary of its incorporation or , if its last return was made up to a different date , the anniversary of that date . |
| 17 | They were shown up to a double room , and Paul stood slackly , wetting his lips . |
| 18 | A wing-hair was drawn up to a crackling wood fire and Mrs Gotobed sat in it . |
| 19 | He stares at the hydraulic dentist 's chair , angled up to an empty sky and an open sea . |
| 20 | THE debate on ways in which Merseyside might benefit from up to £1bn in EC grants is being opened up to a wider audience in a novel fashion later this month . |
| 21 | Gregory Woods 's remark , quoted at the beginning of this article , suggests , in a rather deliriously utopian , post-Barthes kind of way , that any text can be opened up to a gay interpretation if gay readers decide it to be appropriate — authorial intention is here surrendered in favour of a sort of subcultural authorship , a collective ‘ special thrill ’ , a method of analysis based on a recognition of shared structures of feeling . |
| 22 | Poorly ventilated and stagnant spaces must be opened up to a constant current of air by the introduction of new ventilation openings as even a vigorous attack of dry rot can be arrested ( but not reduced ) by exposure to fresh air . |
| 23 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
| 24 | Then he crouched over it and squared up to an imaginary ball . |
| 25 | The US economy grew by over 2 per cent last year , with growth in the final quarter revised up to an annual rate of 4.75 per cent . |
| 26 | Customers will be able to opt for discounts worth £20 for every £250 invested up to a maximum investment of £3,750 or for bonus shares on the basis of one for every 10 bought . |
| 27 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's why we did not get tied up to a long deal before . |
| 29 | Somewhere within that radius there 'll be a receiver , probably rigged up to a voice-activated tape recorder . |
| 30 | And I would n't say that we were being fleeced , I mean I , I think we 've always been fleeced up to a certain point but they were always making a loss in the past and |