Example sentences of "[v-ing] up to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite lower British fertility levels , migration out of England exceeded 100,000 per year by 1870 ; 3–5 per 1,000 population , representing up to a third of natural increase ( Baines 1985 ) . |
| 2 | So a a a a as you say that the problem is that erm as this process gets under way and er i i s so , I , I think it 's , it 's not just absolute egalitarian in that everybody will get the same , I think there was an assumption that there would be enough for everybody becoming up to a middle peasant status . |
| 3 | The only problem was the , term , drug content , a problem Dr Thompson planned to solve personally , by an ingenious change in his ending ; instead of driving up to a plane , he would drive into it , and explode . |
| 4 | If I also say to him that the lesson we learn from the United States is not to go down the route that he and his party have signed up to in signing up to a socialist manifesto for the European elections . |
| 5 | Last year , before signing up to an IMF deal , Ethiopia 's government sent a team to visit eight African countries and decide for themselves what works . |
| 6 | Wiping or scrubbing with the arm fully extended is less efficient than squaring up to a job and wiping an area slightly offset from the vertical bodycentreline . |
| 7 | Paddling out at real Waimea was the equivalent of squaring up to an over from Harold Larwood and finding you had forgotten your box and pads . |
| 8 | The BMW 525i is 16% more powerful than its predecessor and capable of pushing up to a speed of 143 mph . |
| 9 | Living up to a burden of expectation is never easy . |
| 10 | Supposed to be saving up to a hundred quid ! |
| 11 | In the early morning , waking up to a fierce easterly wind and a leaden sea , the children gathered in the dining room to find snow fluttering through the rafters and piling up over the breakfast plates . |
| 12 | She yawned , stretched herself , voluptuously enjoying the process of waking up to a lazy day . |
| 13 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
| 14 | This was the furtiveness that could become fear : not owning up to a language he spoke , smuggling sausages into his bedroom , pretending he was out , plaguing the porters for a letter from his wife when he knew she did n't know where he was . |
| 15 | If you suspect that this is leading up to a tirade about vegetables suffering pain , flowers having feelings and ants being cleverer than humans , then I am sorry to disappoint you . |
| 16 | A pilot 's memory for the events leading up to a crash , say , may be totally blocked . |
| 17 | The days leading up to a major championship meeting are always very tense , very difficult , and the second World Championship in Rome was no exception . |
| 18 | Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals , and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up . |
| 19 | Minutes do not in any case include discussions leading up to a decision but only the decision itself . |
| 20 | Obviously , it is never easy to disentangle the process leading up to a particular credit transaction from the general buying process . |
| 21 | No woman feels her best during the period leading up to a period . |
| 22 | They went round the corner , and the child stopped in front of a flight of steps leading up to a dilapidated house , one of a number in the street . |
| 23 | Sampling might also involve time phasing as in attempting to detect opinion trends leading up to a general election . |
| 24 | However , a sociological explanation needs to be more holistic than this , and it is not normally sufficient merely to regard the events leading up to a strike as its cause . |
| 25 | Bob will also supervise the Challenge which is organised in a series of heats leading up to a final where the outright winner will be presented with the Driver of the Year trophy . |
| 26 | The house is cool inside , the hall wide , with two pillars and a staircase leading up to a landing with a high round window . |
| 27 | Likewise , a path of sand and stones leading up to a triptich centred on a long industrial corridor with female figures int he images either side battling as if caught within transparent plastic , their head hidden behind their arms , is marked by a continuous figure-of-eight swirl on the sand . |
| 28 | The FDR , and more particularly the DFDR , have enabled the accident investigator to establish in considerable detail exactly what happened in the period leading up to an accident . |
| 29 | ‘ Presumably they must have to pay for all the preparation leading up to an operation of this sort , and pay the staff who are waiting around . |
| 30 | During negotiations leading up to an economic transaction , choice theories insist that no legal obligations should arise since the parties have not yet reached an agreement . |