Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Fixed-sum versus running-account : an obvious distinction between credit for a fixed amount of money ( such as HP , fixed loans of money ) and credit , perhaps up to a fixed ceiling , which may fluctuate up and down depending on what the borrower draws or pays in ( such as shop budget accounts , credit cards , bank overdrafts ) .
2 Moving averages would normally be used for short term forecasting , perhaps up to a maximum of a few ( say 3 to 6 ) months ahead .
3 And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills .
4 Perhaps up in the or up in the mountain .
5 ’ He seemed to sigh , and his eyes went starkly up to the spear-point .
6 ‘ It is entirely up to the local education authority to decide what it considered to be the child 's needs , ’ the judge said .
7 Where the tail goes from there is entirely up to the driver .
8 If only one partner is Catholic , permission to marry in a non-Catholic church may be given but is entirely up to the discretion of the priest .
9 So that 's , entirely up to the pair of you .
10 Quite , providing there was only one representative , and we were n't overburdened , providing it was clearly understood that they were there almost in the same way that a local member would be , to speak on a given item , and not to vote , then I do n't think we 'd have any objections , but it 's entirely up to the Committee , how do you feel ?
11 At the end of the day , how a member state organises itself is entirely up to the member state itself .
12 Can I make a suggestion then that on this we change the suggested If you just put down that the enquiry form is farmed by the researchers full stop , and leave any related documents entirely up to the discretion of each and
13 He crowed suddenly up at the drawings tacked on the wall , then at other times was perfectly quiet and lovely , just looking at things , motes of light , bits of fluff , a pencil .
14 Did John Doe do much up at the Tilberthwaite Mines ?
15 of course until December so at least still very much up in the air , but certainly the estimates of the current year are produced of highly
16 They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century .
17 Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about .
18 Laura gasped breathlessly as he raised his dark head , gazing fondly up at the man she loved so much .
19 She had come up to Jasper , who caught her wrist in his bony grip , and they ran together up towards the Underground .
20 But only up to a point , you see .
21 Only up to a point : without oil Saddam Hussein would not have invaded Kuwait ; nor would his invasion have threatened the West 's security .
22 McFarlane took it to heart also , but only up to a point .
23 The metrics in both regions are unaltered , since a null electromagnetic field is defined by the metric only up to a constant duality rotation .
24 Tolkien 's opinions here are clear only up to a point .
25 Burton 's local fame grew in contradicting this up to a point — but only up to a point .
26 An American president can decide to focus on domestic policy only up to a point ; events in the wider world , leaders of other countries , have a habit of eating into time that the president thought he would spend on other things .
27 The three businessmen-politicians can be lumped together , but only up to a point .
28 Even the conservatives in the House could not be entirely depended on , for all but a few of them were no more than ‘ Hooverites ’ to use Stockman 's contemptuous label ; they were keen on budget-cutting only up to a point and were anxious that the budget should be balanced , but they had no stomach for swingeing tax cuts — the main article of the supply-side faith .
29 Productivity increases as we spend more time and energy , but only up to a critical point .
30 The answer is , yes it is , but only up to a point .
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