Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheep graze up to its walls , mellow with yellow lichen , and the reedy dykes which surround it are famous for their marsh frogs , whose operatic baritone can be heard a mile away on May nights . |
| 2 | A report in the British Journal of Addiction says some carrot junkies eat up to five bunches a day and become desperate if deprived of their fix . |
| 3 | GTI has particular expertise in wood-burning gasifiers for making lime : its largest installation consumes about 0–8 tonnes of wood per tonne of lime produced ; traditional methods consume up to 2–5 tonnes of logs for the same result . |
| 4 | Some boarding schools charge up to £10,000 per annum so its little wonder that a rising number of children are being taken away and placed in cheaper day schools or back into state schools . |
| 5 | What these contradictions add up to is the paradoxical point that the ‘ frozen moment of loveliness is more dynamic than the fluid world of reality only because it is frozen ’ , that art is more vivid than life only because it is not alive . |
| 6 | Similar reef limestones extend up to Scandinavia , where they reach heir finest development in the island of Gotland out in the Baltic . |
| 7 | Acceptable collocational patterns and grammatical structures can only enhance the readability of individual sentences , but they do not in themselves ensure that sentences and paragraphs add up to a readable or coherent text . |
| 8 | Although later works made more use of Englishmen , foreign technicians continued to be needed , and the several groups located in the Weald add up to a directory of the industry in 1524–5 . |
| 9 | If the magazine ever publishes an article called , ‘ What Embalmers Get Up To In Their Spare Time ’ the following photograph would surely earn pride of place . |
| 10 | ‘ What sort of games did you and Ephraim get up to ? ’ |
| 11 | The study , ‘ Made in Britain : the true state of British manufacturing industry ’ , is a joint project by IBM Consulting Group and London Business School to test whether British manufacturers measure up to the best in the world . |
| 12 | Paula said slyly , ‘ I might just tell Mum what you and Edward get up to in the pictures . ’ |
| 13 | ICL 's current SuperSparc desktop — designed by Fujitsu Ltd — uses a single 40MHz chip , and the high-end 700 series servers use up to four of the parts . |
| 14 | ICL 's current SuperSparc desktop — designed by Fujitsu Ltd — uses a single 40MHz chip , high-end 700 series servers use up to four of the parts . |
| 15 | The designer makes sure that there is only one exit at the front and that coaches and cars sweep up to it , making it unattractive to cross . |
| 16 | NEARLY 10,000 fans turned out to see St Helens ' new Kiwi signing Jarrod McCracken live up to his pre-match billing as the ‘ new Mal Meninga ’ . |
| 17 | Sessions take up to 20 children , last for 45 minutes and include songs , games and stories . |
| 18 | Ilmenites from the same rock contain up to I per cent V&sub2 ; O&sub5 ; . |
| 19 | The chairs we have now were actually designed with our chat show in mind , not so low that knees come up to chins and reveal too much sock , nor so wide as to encourage fidgeting , with an upright back to prevent slouching , and arm rests to give the nervous something to grip . |
| 20 | From my window I saw a tan Mercedes sports car pull up to the moving steps which were being fitted into place . |
| 21 | The songs contain up to eight themes , each one consisting of repeated phrases . |
| 22 | However , all G-2 sources tell that the North Koreans have up to 100 Russian planes and a training program for pilots . |
| 23 | According to the underplating model the addition of volcanic rock thickens the crust and the resulting isostatic adjustment leads to the formation of a broad hot-spot swell up to 2000km across and an increase in surface elevation of up to 2000 m . |
| 24 | Steps lead up to a higher level platform where surprises are found above the cases down below : the head of a moose and whole of an alligator , to name two . |
| 25 | Whereas computer-tomography devices in medicine use as many as 700 detectors to produce images in 3 seconds , the portable unit 's three sensors need up to 10 hours to make a respectable picture ( though spot checks for cracks and rottenness can be made much faster ) . |
| 26 | THE STAGE is a backyard bounded by a palisade of rusty corrugated iron ; two ladders lead up to a balcony , a tap drips into a can . |
| 27 | Home Office ministers have asked the Association of Chief Police Officers to monitor the spread of scanners which can detect a radar trap up to three miles away . |
| 28 | Not only do cross-border calls cost up to six times as much as domestic calls of equal distance , but technical standards , tariffs , service and transmission quality change wherever a telephone line crosses a dotted line on a map . |
| 29 | Other prospects include Cligga Head , a greisenised granite on the north Cornwall coast which has been examined by adits and drilling , and Redmoor , where drilling has shown a large , low-grade sheeted vein swarm up to 80 m wide and several hundred metres long . |
| 30 | The League Against Cruel Sports set up an undercover operation which it says proves that some hunts make up to twenty thousand pounds a year without paying tax.Huntsmen say the League is resorting to desperation tactics . |