Example sentences of "and [verb] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rub through sieve , pour into sugar syrup and make up to 1.15 litres ( 2 pints ) with extra water . |
| 2 | The patients studied were seen and treated up to 3 hours from the onset of symptoms . |
| 3 | The interviewing panel of Horsley , Pilger and Hayling , with Kerry Brown and Maxine Johnson representing the Founders , was supplemented by Christine Jackson , sitting in and limbering up for Equal Opportunities . |
| 4 | As they were fitter all had the procedure in one stage and withstood up to 52 minutes rotation time ( patient VIII ) . |
| 5 | The examining teams are selected by the chief examiners and made up of practising bankers — members who are interested in keeping up to date and ‘ putting something back ’ into the profession . |
| 6 | A share is not a sum of money … but is an interest measured by a sum of money and made up of various rights contained in the contract , including the right to a sum of money of a more or less amount . ’ |
| 7 | Even the streets are like a dorm these days , with much peer-group pressure and unpredictably intense scrutiny , adolescent , unpleasant , sexual but sexually obscure or half-formed , and made up of ridiculous postures which no one is allowed to laugh at . |
| 8 | 1 The chief characteristic of society is that it is " open " and made up of many interests that freely and automatically form themselves into a whole variety of groups . |
| 9 | Some are direct and made up of straight lines , others meander around ; in some the electron moves fast , in others it dawdles . |
| 10 | The paraglider itself is rectangular and made up of numerous cells or pockets running from the front to the rear of the wing . |
| 11 | The tunnel was seven feet in diameter and made up of cast-iron segments with its own air-conditioning plant , lighting and heating . |
| 12 | The light-weight rock froth itself is quite familiar , and turns up in British bathrooms ; it is , of course , pumice . |
| 13 | The severe budget deficit caused the UNHCR to close 19 of its approximately 100 regional offices and to freeze up to 300 posts . |
| 14 | On Dec. 6 a bomb destroyed the Department of National Security ( DAS ) headquarters in Bogotá , killing 67 people and wounding up to 800 others . |
| 15 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 16 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 17 | During this period the spit suffered erosion on its south-west facing portion , the shingle being transported round the Ness itself and built up into new ridges on the east-facing side , where the dominant waves come from an east or north-east direction . |
| 18 | The outline of your notes should be based on the syllabus or programme of the subjects and built up from key words abstracted from textbooks and other writings on the topics concerned . |
| 19 | The species has a short life under water , and lives up to 6 months in the aquarium . |
| 20 | Children who are HIV antibody positive can remain completely well and grow up like other children . |
| 21 | The aim of this project is to investigate these problems and to come up with suggested methods of analysis which are generally applicable to complex surveys . |
| 22 | They had huge piles of chilled fresh pineapple and other fresh fruits and cheeses all beautifully arranged and cut up into bite-sized pieces . |
| 23 | The Lynx goes further and allows up to eight players to link together . |
| 24 | An exception is the Norwich and Peterborough building society which has a flat rate dealing fee of £8 , ( plus VAT ) and allows up to four members of a family to trade their combined holdings in a single deal . |
| 25 | An exception is the Norwich and Peterborough building society which has a flat rate dealing fee of £8 , ( plus VAT ) and allows up to four members of a family to trade their combined holdings in a single deal . |
| 26 | It has 14 individual funds and allows up to four switches without charge in any calendar year . |
| 27 | The American Express survey compared holiday prices in more than a dozen countries and came up with these contrasts : |
| 28 | The accountant realising he would not be fobbed off , tried harder and came up with some facts . |
| 29 | They dealt with something like 5000 letters a week and interviewed up to 500 petitioners on behalf of children still in Germany . |
| 30 | Over a period of time circuit boards and chips creep out of their sockets as different components cool and heat up at different rates . |