Example sentences of "[vb infin] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A predator company ( the offerer ) can buy up to 15 per cent of a company 's shares without restrictions , but above that level must then wait seven days before being allowed to buy up to another ten per cent . |
| 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 | Station Officer Eric Warrior , of Middlesbrough Fire Station , said anyone entering the building could easily fall up to 15 metres into the basement of the premises . |
| 4 | A population of mice may yield up to six times its weight because of rapid turnover and high metabolism . |
| 5 | Bulldozers were used to clear 1.6 million ha for Gmelina arborea ( Verbenaceae ) , which can yield up to 30 m 3 per ha per annum , but the best stands yielded only 14 t , the scheme overall only 3–6 t . |
| 6 | One cow will yield up to 23 litres ( 5gal ) of milk and 4½ litres ( 1gal ) should make 450g ( 1lb ) of cheese . |
| 7 | Your army may include up to eight Steam Tanks . |
| 8 | Your army may include up to five Squig Hoppers for each Night Goblin Mob it contains ( including Squig Hunter and Netter Mobs ) . |
| 9 | The programs can include up to six basic effects , although three double up : chorus/flanger , distortion/overdrive and pitch/delay ( the delay does have separate parameter settings , however ) . |
| 10 | Proximal and distal ends may include up to half the length of the shaft without any separate count being made for the shaft . |
| 11 | Furthermore , local authorities were obliged to offer mortgages to prospective purchasers who could include up to another four members of their households as joint mortgagors . |
| 12 | SPECIAL RULES : Each Night Goblin Mob may include up to three hidden Night Goblin Fanatics . |
| 13 | Each unit of Night Goblins in your army may include up to three hidden Night Goblin Fanatics . |
| 14 | It will also discuss up to five drafts of a new post-communist constitution . |
| 15 | Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract . |
| 16 | A new report has argued that Britain could recycle up to 80 per cent of its household waste by a combination of recycling banks and composting . |
| 17 | A giant plant than can recycle up to one hundred thousand tonnes of rubbish every year . |
| 18 | They will fund up to 90 per cent of the research in some areas and will coordinate the work through a new directorate . |
| 19 | With narrow spacing , Composers Pen can clearly display up to twelve staves at a time , although the program can cope with up to 99 staves in any one composition . |
| 20 | At the centre , dispatchers keep track of taxis on monitor screens , which can display up to five cabs per pole . |
| 21 | This option can accommodate package structures up to 20 levels deep , and the scrolled area can display up to 20 package names . |
| 22 | The decoy can catch up to 1400 birds in a season . |
| 23 | ‘ But first I must catch up with Posh Porky as I do n't ‘ ave much capital left of my own . ’ |
| 24 | So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe . |
| 25 | Both jobs will give him time to ‘ catch up with this international chairmanship ’ . |
| 26 | We will never catch up with this galaxy , no matter how hard we try . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll catch up on that soon . ’ |
| 28 | During this spare time you can catch up on lost sleep ( as long as your naps do not prevent a full night 's sleep ) , relax after the stresses of the journey , adjust drinking and eating habits , and generally adapt to your new surroundings . |
| 29 | Thus the layers which are fed faster will advance faster and may catch up on slower underlying layers which they have no means of passing . |
| 30 | ‘ After taking off from Bermuda , I thought I could catch up on some sleep . |