Example sentences of "of [v-ing] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 2 | In marine manufacturing one has the sense of a kind of using up of existing facilities and skills without much new investment , although the Tyne does have R and D capacity in this sector . |
| 3 | Kadish has managed five-electron reductions of C60 ( although theory suggests that this molecule should be capable of accepting up to six electrons into its lowest unoccupied molecular orbital ) . |
| 4 | It is an entirely ‘ hands off ’ method of filtration capable of filtering up to six fryers without moving from fryer to fryer . |
| 5 | In 1496 he was able to tell his royal employers that he had found a goldfield of El Doradan proportions , capable of producing up to 3 tons of gold a year , enough to justify the cost of his four expeditions . |
| 6 | This does not reflect a radical social openness or free circulation of agents between social positions , since the offspring of the higher occupational grades still have a much greater relative chance of ending up in those grades than people from lower occupational backgrounds , but all the same it represents de facto social mobility on a large scale . |
| 7 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 8 | Playing with other children , joining group activities , spending time in the park and playground — they 're all important parts of growing up for pre-school children . |
| 9 | The two-day debate in parliament opened with an emergency speech by President Vaclav Havel , who declared that the country was in danger of breaking up under nationalist pressures from Slovakia . |
| 10 | First you dug a shallow grave capable of holding up to seven corpses at a time . |
| 11 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 12 | The multiprocessing version of IBM Corp 's OS/2 demonstrated at Comdex will be going into beta test sites this summer : theoretically it is capable of supporting up to 16 processors , but the company humms and hahs about how many are practicable ; the kernel itself is locked so that it runs on a single processor , but this will change in the forthcoming versions using Workplace OS , says IBM 's Ms Dimfel . |
| 13 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |
| 14 | The problem of facing up to these obligations was not , however , an easy one to resolve . |
| 15 | That each individual being transferred out of ISS will have the opportunity of spending up to three days in the new location prior to making any decision to transfer . |
| 16 | Instead of linking up with political parties , they relied on official helpers or on individual members of the gentry , who were normally their main opponents on the land question . |
| 17 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 18 | The Roslavl' party cell is thinking of recruiting up to seventy-five soldiers from the town garrison in order to collect potatoes from the area as a tax in kind . |
| 19 | In the Wheelhouse of RCTV Audemer , Corporal Fisher rubbed his tired eyes and looked along the thirty-three-metre length of the RCL and its now empty cargo deck , capable of carrying up to ninety-six tonnes of vehicles or freight . |
| 20 | Both types work on the principle of swelling up at high temperatures to produce a ‘ charred ’ foam coating which so insulates and protects the member from heat that the temperature of the metal remains well below that of the fire . |
| 21 | It is certainly a state of the art unit , offering an impressive 36 functions which range from three altitude settings , to an internal memory capable of storing up to eight hours of diving profiles , and if that 's not enough , you can interface it with a personal computer and relive your dive profiles in your own home . |
| 22 | ( a ) a watch ( showing the same time as the examination room clock ! ) ( b ) a stop-watch capable of registering up to 30 minutes ( c ) several sharpened pencils , both hard and soft ( 2Bs should always be carried and harder ones can be used for more delicate sketching ) ( d ) a bunch of coloured pencils or coloured ball-point pens ( e ) a pencil sharpener ( f ) a pen with which you are familiar and which is comfortable to the hand . |
| 23 | Opinion surveys suggested , however , that a majority of US citizens felt that reverse discrimination , even on the basis of making up for past wrongs , was unfair , and was a concept associated with the Democrats rather than the Republicans . |