Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He intended to build terraces of houses right up to the Head but only the new Park Road was slowly completed , chiefly because of the steep hill . |
| 2 | Discourse can be anything from a grunt or single expletive , through short conversations and scribbled notes right up to Tolstoy 's novel , War and Peace , or a lengthy legal case . |
| 3 | Yet the government 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory has tested roads only up to 20 million standard axles . |
| 4 | A beautiful demonstration of the importance of calcium loading in priming RYRs was described in sympathetic ganglion neurons , where the rapid removal of external calcium could prevent the caffeine-induced spikes right up to the onset of the all-or-none phase ( Fig. 4c ) . |
| 5 | From the primitive algae of the Archaeozoic era , which ultimately would continue as mosses and fungi right up to the present day , there was a branching off of the lycopodiates , early ferns , cycladals and filicales . |
| 6 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 7 | He lifted her , tender-clumsy , keeping the shiny covers chastely up to her shoulders . |
| 8 | With his approval ratings now up to 40% , Mr Florio leads the Republican candidate , Christine Todd Whitman ( who almost upset Senator Bill Bradley in November ) , by nine points . |
| 9 | We could just see the hazy point where , in that August of 1883 , the Dutch administrator of south Sumatra and his family had observed the tidal wave rise inexorably 150 feet right up to the veranda of his residence , pause , and withdraw again , taking some of his flowerpots , half the hillside , and the entire town with its population of some 800 people . |
| 10 | Overhead arm stretching exercises : these help to stretch the body from the feet right up to the neck . |
| 11 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 12 | A sprung-edge base has springs right up to the edges , giving greater comfort and causing less wear on the mattress |
| 13 | Instead , a now very fat Halima would be found at all times of day , demanding oats , by standing deep in the fence with wires right up to her armpits ! |
| 14 | Because of this , boxing remained the major sporting area for blacks right up to and beyond the World War II period , though it was not until 1948 that they were allowed to contest a British title . |
| 15 | The exam educates youngsters cheaply up to a level that is not reached in other countries until someone has been at university for a year . |
| 16 | The pair were meeting in the final for the fifth time in six years with honours even up to yesterday . |
| 17 | They met several times more up to 1985 , but seem to have remained in touch until the last few months of Ceauşescu 's rule . |
| 18 | Lining the walls of the display hall are a long series of photographs and displays which trace not just the history of Yakovlev but the whole history of Soviet aviation , both civil and military , from the very earliest days right up to date and covering significant events through the years . |
| 19 | With characteristic ingenuity , the Germans set to boring two mile-long tunnels — appropriately called ‘ Gallwitz ’ and ‘ Crown Prince ’ — in order to bring troops right up to the northern base of the Mort Homme in safety . |
| 20 | See folk well maybe bairns plying in boats right up to the cathedral . |
| 21 | The instruments available in the shop will range from budget beginners ' guitars right up to custom-made guitars and basses , all set up and adjusted by Hugh Manson to give the same service previously offered to Jeff Beck , Andy Summers , John Giblin ( Simple Minds , Kate Bush ) , The Sisters Of Mercy and Led Zeppelin 's John Paul Jones , to name a few . |
| 22 | But that one was and I heard a year ago but I never saw it till the bus driver I went with some years ago up to John O'Groats . |
| 23 | When the dog warden scheme began six years ago up to 100 puppies were abandoned each year . |
| 24 | Germany has been the jewel of Ingres ' crown , with 700 new licences expected to push revenues there up to DM35m from DM27.6m last time around . |
| 25 | Because the phallic stage of sexual development continues for the Australian aborigines right up to puberty and because resolution of the Oedipus complex can not occur until initiation , it follows as a matter of inexorable logic that a latency period recognizable as a consequence of a culturally induced culmination of the Oedipal stage can not be expected . |
| 26 | The myth recurs in some form in all the plays right up to The Tempest , where the boar , again the agent of the lustful goddess , charges ( the threats to Miranda 's chastity ) but is stopped ‘ in mid-air ’ by the magic of Prospero . |
| 27 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 28 | White had handled things well up to here but should now have played 24 . |
| 29 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 30 | What happens if you have n't quite put the the other goods quite up to that level ? |