Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] to [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So the maximum value a coeffic correlation coefficient can obtain is plus one , and that would be when there 's a total positive correlation Conversely , the minimum value it can obtain is when this expression on top is minus N minus one , so it goes down to minus one for a complete negative correlation and it 's zero if there 's no correlation and then there 's the values in between That 's just saying what I 've said .
2 Allowing for parliamentary recesses , that adds up to between forty and forty-five Cabinet meetings a year — not a particularly significant statistic if more business is being taken in committees , of which more in a moment .
3 For a family of four , this adds up to about 600 ltr of water in a year .
4 That adds up to over two weeks a year , or two years of your life .
5 That adds up to over 50 million a year , half of which are performed illegally .
6 Temperature tolerance to higher temperatures by even the hardiest rockpool creatures is within such narrow limits that if the water warms up to over 2° above that in which the animal is naturally found for more than a few hours , the animal will surely die .
7 It mounts up to over a thousand quid .
8 That goes up to about sixteen Ooh we 'll just fit twenty on .
9 If if you add on the Greater York requirement of thirty hectares it goes up to about ninety five hectares .
10 Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see .
11 It gets up to about there and it just wo n't come .
12 One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed .
13 Me and Emma was talking about the flipping things she gets up to with Scott .
14 If he was to find out from you , his own daughter , just what Thacker gets up to behind his back — ‘
15 ‘ He 's just a healthy young lad , I do n't know what he gets up to in his sex life , ’ he told the leering press .
16 On average this is about 33 per cent , although it ranges up to about 60 per cent in the case of Italy , and is over 40 per cent for Britain , France and the United States .
17 Purchases with credit cards and shop accounts were distributed fairly evenly through all price ranges up to about £500 , but HP ( in the widest , popular sense ) was used most for things costing between about £ 1 00 and £500 ( see Appendix I , Table 17 ) .
18 An elderly woman does not want to take the risk , hastily glances at the sharp blades of the door , retreats back to behind the faded white line and waits for the next train .
19 For this you need a good spring balance , and most anglers , myself included , use a dial scale , which weighs up to about 30lb in 1oz divisions .
20 At approximately 30 K above the glass transition the modulus curve begins to flatten out into the plateau region C to D in the modulus interval 10 5 .7 ; to and extends up to about 420 K.
21 It dates back to at least the fifth century BC and is still carried out today at the roadside in parts of Asia .
22 Low-growing , almost mat-like , with white daisy flowers in summer , chamomile dates back to at least the time of the ancient Egyptians who are said to have used it for curing ague .
23 Because of the early establishment of the Danish Cancer Registry we were able to show that this potential association dates back to at least the 1940s .
24 The town was an important seaport long before Belfast was established , and its ferry service dates back to at least 1180 , shortly after the Norman conquest .
25 Notwithstanding its apparent novelty , the multinational ( or , hereafter , transnational ) corporation dates back to at least 1867 .
26 Three living dolphin groups have a record that extends back to about the late Miocene period some 11 million years ago .
27 . So it 's normally quite expensive and it 's , it 's lovely material and it comes down to about here .
28 It comes down to about here .
29 Oh it comes down to from there .
30 None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver .
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