Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hare was running and the Atom lived up to her name and blasted clear . |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | With a First National Bank loan secured on your property you have the opportunity to borrow up to £50,000 for any purpose whatsoever . |
| 4 | If , however , continuous variation is required , this preset can be omitted from the board and three wires taken from the relevant board points up to a conventional 1k rotary potentiometer mounted on a front panel , along with any metering . |
| 5 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 6 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 7 | With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex . |
| 8 | The noise builds up to a shattering roar . |
| 9 | 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) ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Do I have your permission to go up to the belvedere and look around ? ’ |
| 12 | I used to go out on bike rides up to the lake but I do n't any more . |
| 13 | But they were being given permission to borrow up to £628 million provided £75 million were raised by way of ERDF grants . |
| 14 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 15 | Naturally , the interior of the Cloverleaf lives up to its elegant exterior , with air conditioning , electrically powered leather seats , electric windows and sunroof , six speaker CD system and power steering , all standard equipment . |
| 16 | Mr Davies replied that the authority 's budget added up to about 0.2pc of NHS spending in Wales . |
| 17 | Behind him the noise was changing , rising , as the fight wound up to pressure . |
| 18 | Let's go to see you tomorrow Other languages have PrOnominal systems much richer than the English one : in Japanese , pronouns are distinguished also with respect to sex of speaker , social status of referent and degree of intimacy with referent , so , for example , the second person pronoun kimi can be glossed " you , addressed by this intimate male speaker " ( Uyeno , 1971 : 16-17 ; Harada , 1976 : 511 ) ; and village Tamil has up to six singular second person pronouns according to degree of relative rank between speaker and addressee ( Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 3206 ) . |
| 19 | Bob Murray finds out how well a big green luxury saloon stands up to the strain of chauffeuring a discerning family of four around France |
| 20 | The Chairman wound up to applause . |
| 21 | Bauhaus ' ‘ Dark Entries ’ remains a ferocious blue ( black ) print ; Danse Society 's ‘ We 're So Happy ’ is surprisingly epic and coolly resonant ; and mid-'80s music hall like X-Mal Deutschland , Sex Gang Children , Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend stands up to the test of time . |
| 22 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 23 | Division adds up to few rhythmic pluses |
| 24 | Now the company want permission to work up to 20 Sundays in any year from 7.30am until 4.30pm . |
| 25 | In this chapter , we have assumed the worst possible case — i.e. the syntax/semantics component needs up to ten words of the utterance in order to prefer one of the alternatives — and this is why the statistics are based on the total number of complete word strings derived from the different kinds of input to the lexical access component . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On full dirt through a Marshall Valvestate combo the Mad Axe lived up to its name and any kind of rock tone proved possible . |