Example sentences of "[vb base] up to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All modems hook up to a serial port . |
| 2 | Some devices for keeping costs low are employed and these can , where required , provide up to an extra 20% of expenditure : a popular ploy is to purchase stationery in advance and then resell it cheaply to the candidate as second-hand stock . |
| 3 | Skippers say up to a dozen tankers can be seen drifting among them . |
| 4 | In such a situation , the colours show up to the best advantage , and the angling of the light helps to ‘ model ’ the detail and separate the planes to increase the illusion of depth . |
| 5 | From here climb up to a large thread belay and cave stance . |
| 6 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
| 7 | As you walk up to the first Munro , Stob Choire Claurigh , the whole complexity of the Aonachs becomes clear . |
| 8 | We 'll visit the Jewish quarter , count statues of Saints on the famous Charles Bridge and walk up to the Presidential Palace area , stopping to see the wax figurine of the infant Jesus and to rest in the lovely gardens . |
| 9 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
| 10 | Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever . |
| 11 | I sidle up to the older cop . |
| 12 | Animals still travel up to the high pastures , but today the migration is by truck , and not on foot . |
| 13 | However , travel up to the top floor and you enter another world . |
| 14 | Gayle , sent off during Birmingham 's Anglo-Italian Cup clash with Lucchese on Wednesday , has called on the players to toughen up as they face up to a New Year relegation battle . |
| 15 | As police track a small boy 's killers , locals face up to a lurking danger |
| 16 | Together , our proposals add up to a co-ordinated programme for recovery . |
| 17 | Where fantasy is involved , as in a film like The Wizard of Oz ( 1940 ) , non-realistic , simple colours are acceptable , provided they add up to a coherent scheme that works within the special world of that film . |
| 18 | These incidents scarcely add up to a coherent narrative , and the chronology is uncertain . |
| 19 | The different combinations of colour , beautiful designs , textures , fibres and weaves all add up to a vast range of fabrics from which to choose and at enormously varying prices . |
| 20 | Informative , revealing , funny , they add up to a comprehensive picture of a momentous year . |
| 21 | They are nevertheless honest enough to praise the good points of the car but are unable to concede that these points add up to a first-class package . |
| 22 | AN INSATIABLE appetite for squid plus an ageing workforce add up to a full order book for a Japanese manufacturer of computerised fishing equipment . |
| 23 | These constraints lead decision-makers to deviate considerably from the comprehensive rationality model , but in six ways which add up to a positive theory of decision-making . |
| 24 | A Whether they come in through the letterbox , under the door or around the windows , draughts all add up to a large heating bill . |
| 25 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
| 26 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 27 | The changes , therefore , add up to a different kind of economic system . |
| 28 | That the written statement and its publication add up to a true Dostoevsky confession , to repentance and acceptance of suffering , to ‘ a wonderful podvig ’ in Tikhon 's words , is one possibility among many . |
| 29 | To what extent these isolated scenes of rural India add up to a true picture of the situation across the country is difficult to say . |
| 30 | Did the industrial militants in the car industry and the docks , the union leaders disaffected by incomes policy and the council tenants by the local state apparatus , the left intellectuals in the universities , add up to a social bloc capable of achieving sweeping changes in Britain 's insertion within international economic relations and the relations of production in the domestic economy , even if the Labour leadership had wished to lead such a movement ? |