Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Fixed-sum versus running-account : an obvious distinction between credit for a fixed amount of money ( such as HP , fixed loans of money ) and credit , perhaps up to a fixed ceiling , which may fluctuate up and down depending on what the borrower draws or pays in ( such as shop budget accounts , credit cards , bank overdrafts ) .
2 And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills .
3 ‘ It is entirely up to the local education authority to decide what it considered to be the child 's needs , ’ the judge said .
4 Did John Doe do much up at the Tilberthwaite Mines ?
5 Sun struck across the room , bounced fiercely up from the shiny surfaces of containers littering the floor and tossed shadows from the drawers and furniture which had been hurled about .
6 Productivity increases as we spend more time and energy , but only up to a critical point .
7 The metrics in both regions are unaltered , since a null electromagnetic field is defined by the metric only up to a constant duality rotation .
8 Subsection ( 5 ) defines ‘ relevant shares ’ as : ‘ shares in the company other than — ( a ) shares which as respects dividends and capital carry a right to participate only up to a specified amount in a distribution , and ( b ) shares which are held by a person who acquired them in pursuance of an employees ’ share scheme or , in the case of shares which have not been allotted , are to be allotted in pursuance of such a scheme . ’
9 The above arguments lead to the conclusion that the usual initial data for colliding plane waves leads to a unique solution only up to the topological singularities and in regions II and III , and to the ‘ focusing ’ singularity in the interaction region .
10 There they were brought up by angels , but only up to the ideal age :
11 The regime had been under strain for some time , not only up in the Syrian heartland but also in far-away Khorasan in northeastern Persia .
12 For example , a person witnesses the following events in a swimming pool : A tall adolescent boy walks purposefully up behind a small coloured child and pushes him strongly into the pool .
13 The next morning , he laced up his walking boots while Detective Furness , squinting doubtfully up at the cloudy sky , telephoned the mountain rescue post on the other side of the peak to advise the guide of their intentions .
14 So waits now as Lawrence comes up and bowls to him and this , oooh off the edge and that 's going down up towards the third man , going over the ropes down the far end and and that 's one boundary there off the edge at one hundred and thirteen for four , Lawrence wo n't be to happy about that , but it happens to all fast bowlers .
15 So up to the third bay ; all the area at the western end up to the gangway was devoted to Tilt Van repairs under chargehand W. Hyde ( Ponnie ) .
16 She stared dazedly up into a wild , glittering gaze that held her helplessly captive .
17 Paul and Blyth had fallen asleep , and Eric was lying with his hands behind his neck , staring drowsily up at the bright blue .
18 And slick pictures of pretty young people who seem to have nothing better to do than make amateur porn videos — often appearing in up to a dozen different tapes .
19 From when anybody started , the training goes right through up till the last bit of training they 've done .
20 This ‘ lobon-gur ’ solution ( LGS ) was prepared by taking ‘ half a seer ’ of tube well or boiled water and adding to it one three-finger pinch of ‘ lobon ’ ( exactly up to the first crease of the index finger ) and two four-finger scoops of ‘ gur ’ , then stirring well .
21 Because largely up to the present time in the er , as far as older people are concerned , then the only alternative to the current truth , and direct provider of services , has been the straight private sector .
22 We lay on the brink of its descent and rolled quickly downwards , our faces full of earth and grass one instant and then rotating madly and finally up to the brazen blue sky leaking through the trees .
23 The nose-tingling aroma of rosemary in itself is enough to banish catarrh and sinus infections as it trickles coolly up into the nasal cavities and spreads behind the cheekbones and forehead .
24 And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard .
25 The most obvious of these was that if fonts were to be provided with any application , it was better if they could be shared by others , and the Typographics fonts supplied with early versions were , if not exactly grotty , not up to the standard users would expect of , say , TrueType or ATM fonts .
26 It is an offence to drive when your eyesight is not up to the required standard .
27 Michael Banks knew that The Hooded Owl was not up to the required standard .
28 These acquisitions were not up to the basic standards of the museums of Moscow , the former ‘ capital of half the world ’ .
29 Not up to the old days ; not for either of them .
30 This reviewer is a long-time fan of Mr Greer 's superb aviation art in the Squadron Signal series over many years ; sadly , his figure work is not up to the same very high standard .
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