Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , medium status it may go up to more like five minutes , very high status it may be approaching ten minutes , okay ? |
| 2 | It may take up to eight weeks to evaluate your program , so please be patient . |
| 3 | Do not expect instant results , especially if the baby has diarrhoea or colic — it may take up to two weeks for the baby 's digestive system to return to normal . |
| 4 | Clearance applications require planning as it may take up to 30 days to obtain clearance . |
| 5 | Having corresponded with the member or members concerned , the committee looks at the facts it has obtained and expresses a technical opinion , which it may follow up in various ways . |
| 6 | He feared it might end up in deep humiliation . |
| 7 | If there were a sufficiently powerful explosion close by it might go up by sympathetic detonation . |
| 8 | It could be a hazard only where it might build up in poorly ventilated buildings . |
| 9 | and it 'll go up to one forty the next day ! |
| 10 | So it 'll end up with cosy chats in the Beak 's office . |
| 11 | It 'll take up to 6 months to rebuild . |
| 12 | Undergrounding some or all of the cables is seen by many as one way of lessening the visual impact of the line but NGC says it could cost up to 18 times more than overhead lines . |
| 13 | Meteorologists warn that it could travel up to 2,000 km , falling over the southern Soviet Union and other eastern European countries if prevailing winds allow . |
| 14 | Do n't wait until Christmas Eve to defrost the turkey — it could take up to two days to thaw ! |
| 15 | we 've had it , went , he went back to the doctors today and she said it could take up to six to eight weeks to get out your system . |
| 16 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 17 | It could take up to four years before a full hearing in the European Court , but Liberty 's legal officer , John Wadham , suggested yesterday that the action might prompt the Government to include a mechanism for complaints over GCHQ in its forthcoming bill to put the Secret Intelligence Service , MI6 , on a statutory footing . |
| 18 | It also said that it could take up to 15 years to clean up oil pollution along the Saudi Arabian coast . |
| 19 | The chick is due on good Friday , but it could take up to three days to free itself from the egg . |
| 20 | This is hard to quantify in the abstract and will depend on the demands and the receptiveness of the individual schools , but it could add up to hundreds of hours and dozens of activities over a year . |
| 21 | This is hard to quantify in the abstract and will depend on the demands and the receptiveness of the individual schools , but it could add up to hundreds of hours and dozens of activities over a year . |
| 22 | A CONTROVERSIAL plan to charge foreign three-day-event riders a £500-a-season licence fee to compete in Britain has been dropped because it could run up against European regulations . |
| 23 | He acknowledged that it could prove up to four times more expensive than wind or wave power . |
| 24 | It was also pointed out that when Montupet set up close to West Belfast , Richard Needham claimed it would bring up to 1000 new jobs to West Belfast . |
| 25 | Portugal announced earlier this year that it would give up to 130,000 passports to people born in Macao before 1981 . |
| 26 | Easier to imagine him here , thinking : ‘ Is it worth it ? ’ , for if he rolled his rock up this slope he would come to a heap of rubbish — and when it rolled back it would end up in another even bigger heap . |
| 27 | ‘ It would take up to two years to collect the information and in the meantime we would restore the old rates , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Apple reportedly hopes to offer the machine at approximately Macintosh LC II prices , but it will deliver up to 30 times the LC II 's performance when running software written for the new RISC CPU 's native mode . |
| 29 | It will attract up to 800 delegates from Britain and abroad . |
| 30 | Occasionally it will handle up to 500,000 tons per annum but in general loads around 200,000 tons per annum mainly for Scandinavian receivers . |