Example sentences of "this [vb -s] up to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This adds up to a total cost of just under £20 bn , or about £6,600 per unemployed person . |
| 2 | Their visibility or otherwise , the ways in which they are coded , policed , censored , constructed , praised or punished , the ways in which and levels at which they are represented as engaging with the viewer , and the contexts in which women 's bodies are placed in images and how images of women 's bodies are then distributed and consumed — all this adds up to a subtle politics of the representation of women 's bodies . |
| 3 | All of this adds up to a personal credo that we are not just specialized apes but a unique and peculiar species of our own . |
| 4 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 5 | Minor conflicts occur with the couple trying to pacify her , this continues up to a black moment when the house relents and saves them and then I say and this is important I think when you write for a radio , I have marked one paragraph with red brackets . |