Example sentences of "[vb base] up to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All modems hook up to a serial port .
2 From here climb up to a large thread belay and cave stance .
3 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 .
4 As police track a small boy 's killers , locals face up to a lurking danger
5 Together , our proposals add up to a co-ordinated programme for recovery .
6 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 .
7 These incidents scarcely add up to a coherent narrative , and the chronology is uncertain .
8 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 .
9 Informative , revealing , funny , they add up to a comprehensive picture of a momentous year .
10 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 .
11 AN INSATIABLE appetite for squid plus an ageing workforce add up to a full order book for a Japanese manufacturer of computerised fishing equipment .
12 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 .
13 A Whether they come in through the letterbox , under the door or around the windows , draughts all add up to a large heating bill .
14 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 .
15 The changes , therefore , add up to a different kind of economic system .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 ?
19 Sure the mechanics are similar , but those tiny little extras mount up to a whole lot more than their actual sum .
20 And , I 've just as a basic figure , I mean , they give up to a certain figure o before their hours you put a bit of tax and after that , but er we 've allocated him to work , in the afternoons when I 'm out , they allocate to her , the warehouse , because I ca n't afford any , er , as I say , they repairs a machine , it goes out faulty , and the onus is on me and the company
21 On the same night , a follow up to a known address in the village in a hunt for a missing suspect led to vehement denials from a mother who said her son had been in bed all the evening .
22 This registration procedure is part of the Museum and Galleries Commission work to ensure that all Museums come up to a certain level of competence , and to ensure the future well being of their collections .
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