Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] up to " in BNC.

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1 In the event of non-compliance , in English law , an action can be brought for breach of contract or tort up to six years after the date of the event , as laid down in the Limitation Act 1980. [ 1 ] Documents that originate through the existence of the contract and evidence the events arising under the contract should therefore be maintained for that six year period .
2 Mrs Bottomley , who is planning to close or merge up to 15 London hospitals , said she was ‘ most impressed ’ with her mother 's treatment .
3 We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River .
4 ‘ Tell me who sent you , ’ I snarl in his ear , ‘ or count up to three . ’
5 This means a punter can follow the price movements himself , or obtain up to date prices from his stockbroker .
6 After the first few minutes the child is not going to learn any more from the experience and will either fall asleep , start to play , or get up to mischief in the room .
7 Under existing legislation , the youths could be sentenced to a maximum of two years in prison or fined up to $10,000 , if found guilty .
8 A witness in the family proceedings court who refuses to give evidence or produce any document once he gets to court may be committed to prison for a term not exceeding one month or fined up to £1,000 or both ( MCA , s97(4) ) .
9 Leavis , who countered How To Read with a booklet , How to Teach Reading , and Winters , who declared in 1937 , ‘ Mr Pound resembles a village loafer who sees much and understands little ’ , told the same story as Tate : Pound was a naïf , an imagination and sensory apparatus that consistently performed better than it knew , in ways that the maker 's own discursive intelligence failed to comprehend or measure up to ; in Winters 's memorable and mordant judgement of 1943 , ‘ a sensibility without a mind , or with as little mind as is well possible ’ .
10 Under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 , anyone found damaging a navigation aid or tying up to one can be fined up to £500 , but according to Mr Cooper a fine would be the least of the expense .
11 At T/Sgt John E Smith wrote : ‘ You would n't have known these ladies served as mechanics and armourers in the Women 's Royal Air Force beginning 52 years ago by the way they climbed up and the down the stairs at the control tower or scrambled up to the cockpit of an F-16 ’ .
12 So , the perfectionist might be instructed to do something wrong at work , or deliberately blemish their appearance , or turn up to the group five minutes late .
13 Right now you come out or go up to red .
14 King agreed with me as to Mr Gould being an entirely uneducated man — he sd when he came here [ to Sydney ] he brought verbal introductions from Sir J. to difft. individuals & went up to them & sd .
15 It bored Philip , so he usually stayed in the kitchen or went up to his room .
16 The Greater London Enterprise Board ( renamed Greater London Enterprises in 1986 ) can claim some considerable success in saving or creating up to 4000 jobs between 1982 and 1985 , but London had lost over 250000 jobs between 1978 and 1982 alone ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1985 , p. 81 ) .
17 If you have to go out to earn a living or live up to commitments and promises you should aim to get back as soon as possible .
18 There is considerable evidence that people only remember or absorb up to seven points in any communication situation .
19 It 's not got to court for sort of like , four or five weeks get adjourned or come up to the police station and then like get your hand slapped .
20 Free insurance against loss or damage up to £5,000 .
21 Inclusive insurance against actual loss or damage up to £250 per parcel .
22 Together , these developments are expected to create or safeguard up to 1,200 jobs .
23 They fill their lungs to capacity , and change up to 90 per cent of the air with each breath , whereas humans only fill one-eighth of lung volume on an average breath .
24 So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester .
25 Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery .
26 PV the number of pages per volume for paper and microfilm up to a maximum of 9999 , in this format :
27 LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain .
28 LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain .
29 Rub through sieve , pour into sugar syrup and make up to 1.15 litres ( 2 pints ) with extra water .
30 According to the newspaper , the organisation has ‘ cut its budget by $9 million , is to sell the biggest of its seven ships and make up to 25 per cent of its 500 campaigners redundant ’ .
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