Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're only limited to go up to forty really are n't we ? |
| 2 | A 450km strip of road linking Tokyo , Nagoya and Kobe is alone expected to cost up to ¥5 trillion , more than twice the cost of the Channel tunnel between Britain and France . |
| 3 | After this , progress was slow , though most women compositors of seven years or so experience could apparently expect to move up to 16s : roughly half the male wage of the time . |
| 4 | Erm that 's that 's really good again you 'd only have to learn up to six add six would n't you . |
| 5 | Do these all have to go up to the tower ? ’ |
| 6 | Under the regulations here they 're only allowed to pay up to 80 per cent of your salary from a contributory scheme . |
| 7 | But Michael Fallon , defending Darlington for the Tories , said parents only had to pay up to £8 on education per pupil each year . |
| 8 | It should be made clear both that ( A + B ) does not need to add up to 100 — it is an unfortunate chance that the 80/20 or 90/10 ‘ rules ’ are so well known — and that access frequency loading will only be of benefit when A is less than B. If A were greater than B , meaning that the less active records were loaded first , file access times would be poorer than those of randomly loaded files ! |
| 9 | KEEPER John Lukic tonight has to face up to his bizarre error that punished Leeds heavily against Rangers in Glasgow . |
| 10 | She could not wait to rush up to her room to read the latest book her friend had lent her — which could be anything from The Stones of Venice to The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 11 | What we do know , however , is that in the light of the conflicts of policy surrounding both repatriations that Eighth Army was now fully aware of , the Army Commander Gen McCreery had already decided to fly up to Austria to take a look at what was going on for himself . |
| 12 | ‘ No mother can watch her child continue to be in pain — his frail body is not going to stand up to 30 general anaesthetics . |
| 13 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 14 | He was just going to go up to her to give it back , when the girl did something very strange . |
| 15 | I was just going to settle up to you , that was it . |
| 16 | ‘ There comes a point when you 've just got to face up to the private hell you go through every day . ’ |
| 17 | Britain 's savers and pensioners are just beginning to wake up to the possibilities of independent taxation of husbands and wives . |
| 18 | They 'd be on cup three or four amid the toast fragments , still relaxed but just beginning to wake up to the day 's promise , when Mrs Goreng and myself would join them for what was left of the luke-warm coffee . |
| 19 | Having cruelly ignored the band for two years as they dragged their own equipment between some of London 's less than prestigious live dives , people are finally beginning to wake up to the idea of Suede . |
| 20 | " No , but a husband should not have to look up to his bride . " |
| 21 | She 'll just have to face up to the fact that he 's guilty , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 22 | Finally , the high turnover at the polls might be indicative of changes in the local population , or prudential calculations amongst particular electors as to whether it was worth one 's while trying to exercise one 's right to vote ( on the logic that people will not bother to turn up to the poll if they believe their preferred candidates have no chance of success ) ; it could equally well be indicative of various forms of electoral manipulation and influence , such as the artificial creation of new electors , the ability of returning officers to prevent one side 's supporters from polling , or the ability of some members of the local elite to " persuade " electors not to register a vote in opposition to their wishes . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'd better put on one of my tracksuits , we 're not meant to go up to your room until they 've sent someone to inspect it or something , ’ she called on her way to the kitchen . |
| 24 | It was an extremely murky business , but on any reckoning the details do not seem to add up to systematic armed gang warfare . |
| 25 | Laboratory chemists have only just begun to wake up to this change . |
| 26 | Not have to face up to the fact that he was a dynamic , intelligent , charming man with a gift for finance and the raw exercise of power . |
| 27 | The importer is generally required to pay up to 20 per cent of the contract 's price out of his own resources . |
| 28 | that a simple explanation for the explosion probably lies in the condenser , which cooled evaporating xylene as it left the reaction and was specially designed to accommodate up to 50 kg of deposited tetrachlorobenzene , without blocking . |
| 29 | This day boat is specially designed to carry up to eleven passengers , six of whom could be in wheelchairs . |
| 30 | Why have I always got to come up to your standards ? ’ |