Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 2 | With a First National Bank loan secured on your property you have the opportunity to borrow up to £50,000 for any purpose whatsoever . |
| 3 | The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) . |
| 4 | Under the contract , a copy of which was leaked to the media , Nur Elmy Osman , describing himself as " minister of state for health , Republic of Somalia " , granted Acher a 20-year concession to treat up to 550,000 tons a year of industrial and hospital waste , including " solid and liquid waste of the toxic type " , at a disposal facility in Somalia and to store the treated waste in a landfill . |
| 5 | ‘ Do I have your permission to go up to the belvedere and look around ? ’ |
| 6 | But they were being given permission to borrow up to £628 million provided £75 million were raised by way of ERDF grants . |
| 7 | It would n't take two minutes to slip up to the attic , Timothy Gedge said . |
| 8 | Now the company want permission to work up to 20 Sundays in any year from 7.30am until 4.30pm . |
| 9 | And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese . |
| 10 | Before they met , Marshall announced the absurd news that enquiries in the rag trade had revealed that Trilyn , notorious for its inability to stand up to heavy wear , was most frequently used for trouser pockets . |
| 11 | And so there they , they claim that his childhood was relevant , because of this character defect in , in Wilson , his inability to stand up to strong men . |
| 12 | And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did . |
| 13 | The Company is empowered under its articles of Association to borrow up to twice the aggregate amount of the share capital and reserves of the Company and its subsidiaries as indicated by the latest audited accounts , subject to certain adjustments . |
| 14 | At the moment , no law requires any company or research organisation to notify the HSE of its intention to scale up to fully commercial production in the field of genetic manipulation . |
| 15 | I could n't imagine any of them having the nerve to stand up to Filmer and demand their money . |
| 16 | Because there is pressure on departments in humanistic subjects to appear up to date and efficient , it is much easier to persuade funding bodies to give money for computers and software than to buy manuscripts , rare books , or second and third copies of frequently used library texts . |
| 17 | The TRAX system was developed by the ISMA in an attempt to provide up to date information on transactions ( which are supposed to be reported in 30 minutes ) to allow matching inconsistencies to be resolved quickly . |
| 18 | She drew comparisons between the present crisis concerning Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and the experience of 1938 , declaring that " Czechoslovakia of all countries needs no reminding of the need for nations to stand up to bullies and do so at once " . |
| 19 | Dead-heading climbers and ramblers can often be a massive job involving step ladders to reach up to pergolas , arches and walls , and the larger shrub types can present the same problem . |
| 20 | He stressed that his government " stands for co-operation with the West and will encourage foreigners to own up to 100 per cent of businesses " . |
| 21 | Industry analysts consulted about the failure of the deal to sell up to 30% of Electronic Data Systems Corp to British Telecommunications Plc unanimously concurred that the deal was more critical for EDS owner General Motors Corp than for EDS and would have no short-term impact on the world 's largest systems integration company . |
| 22 | Under this , money is handed out to industry to finance up to half the cost of individual research projects . |
| 23 | Extrinsic feedback is provided by the teacher in the form of information about the success or failure of the practice to match up to the standard performance . |
| 24 | Yeah , it 's it 's it 's the build up to it as well , there 's a lot of excitement , I mean , most people it takes about six months to build up to the big day , and then finally it 's there and it all happens and , I think that makes it a lot , exciting for a lot of women . |
| 25 | Now , after further lobbying by the Specialist Car Manufacturers Group , the self-regulatory body which Caterham founded ( Mr Nearn is its chairman ) , a secondary legislation amendment has been drawn up , and is expected to pass this year , which will allow Caterham to manufacture up to 500 fully-built cars a year , under a low volume manufacturer classification . |
| 26 | As William Gutteridge had pointed out in 1969 , the ability of the new polytechnics to match up to the universities was drastically hampered by their lack of resources of all kinds : |
| 27 | He sets a high moral tone , exhorting the journalist to live up to the ideals of truth , decency and justice against the crasser world outside . |
| 28 | Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France . |
| 29 | Anyway it was not always easy for Nellie to get up to Rosstrevor as often as she 'd like to catch up on any news . |
| 30 | Are we never going to use our various collective skills , institutions and organizations , as well as our particular imaginations , insights and inventiveness to face up to this false prospectus , false prospectus we are trying to live by ? |