Example sentences of "[noun] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I know there have been a number of accidents in that area but I would hope with all these other traffic calming measures we could have kept that speed up to forty miles an hour .
2 2.2 A Stacker-Crane Operated High-Bay Warehouse ( Either Automated or Man-Rider ) in a Conventional Steel Portal Frame Warehouse up to 20 Metres High
3 These researchers divided this violence up into three categories : threats , violence and sexual harassment .
4 On Oct. 6 , 1989 , the government confirmed that it had agreed to buy another squadron of MiG-29 fighter aircraft from the Soviet Union , bringing its complement up to three squadrons .
5 Two passages through the reef , both navigable for vessels up to 5,000 tons .
6 Vessels up to 170 metres long and 30 metres beam can be accommodated .
7 The canal can accommodate vessels up to 1000 tons .
8 Corn was shipped to Newry and Belfast for export to England and vessels up to 60 tons brought back timber , coal and slates .
9 For this reason it can be a major problem in houses calves up to six months of age in some Mediterranean countries .
10 The main effects of this infection appear to be caused by the adult worms in the intestines of calves up to six months old .
11 A NEW Earlycare calf feed range was launched on June 1 to provide farmers with a choice of feeds for calves up to 12 weeks of age .
12 The programme 's main points concerned ( i ) the required " readjustment " of the Marxist MPLA-PT 's theoretical foundations ; ( ii ) the " urgent " introduction of enabling measures for a multiparty system ; ( iii ) the depoliticization of the army ; ( iv ) revision of the Constitution ; and ( v ) the drawing up of electoral rolls prior to the holding of a general election .
13 They called into question various electoral procedures including the drawing up of electoral lists and the issuing of ballot papers .
14 In this climate , various groups of individuals who had been involved in the conferences and activities of the preceding few years were to move into the drawing up of detailed proposals for curriculum development and the search for funds with which to implement these . [ … ]
15 Indeed the years immediately before 1789 saw in some of the greatest European monarchies ( most notably in Prussia ) a growing demand for the drawing up of fundamental laws which would prevent the ruler from behaving in an arbitrary manner , particularly by increasing the importance of legal institutions .
16 He encouraged Sir Warren Fisher , the permanent secretary of the Treasury , and other senior civil servants to busy themselves with the drawing up of constitutional memoranda which came near to being ultimata .
17 This clause and the adoption in Wihtred 's laws of the West Saxon term gesith for noble in place of the eorlcund of the laws of Aethelberht , Hlothhere and Eadric perhaps strengthen a possibility that some degree of collaboration attended the drawing up of these codes .
18 In Spain it was £15–25 for landing and parking , since the first band of charges covers aircraft up to five tonnes for landing and two tonnes for parking .
19 The result was that in the UK the minimum requirement was a scratch foil type of recorder but with the additional pitch attitude parameter , but in many aircraft up to twenty-four parameters were recorded electronically .
20 The daily allowances for this week are as follows : Tea up to 6 cups per day Coffee up to 6 cups per day Cola* 1–2 cans per day Chocolate 1x2oz ( 55g ) bar of chocolate per day * Not caffeine-free , but low-calorie .
21 Well like , for example , we have excellent educational psychologists in Oxfordshire and erm we have advisers for children with special needs in Oxfordshire , and they are extremely useful people in helping out those many children who are not like the average run of children and have specific and particular problems , and I was very fearful that eventually an opted out school might turn its noses up at such children , and I think they needed protection , so that 's one example .
22 Most of these were large machines with spans up to 110 feet ( 33 metres ) , frequently made to carry tanks and other heavy equipment .
23 Earlier , the EPA had issued regulations allowing public utilities up to 21 years to remove dangerous levels of lead from drinking water .
24 ‘ They went out for walks up to five times a day and he spoiled Champ rotten .
25 It offers designers up to 125 rules per module and up to seven labels per variable and provides waveform display and three-dimensional block diagrams that help simulate applications .
26 This can occur for a number of reasons-exposure or the mixing of dissimilar disinfectants or a detergent with a dissimilar disinfectant , the exposure of the disinfectant to certain materials , especially dirt , which chemically or physically inter-react and reduce its efficiency , inaccurate mixing , the use of partially depleted solution or the topping up of depleted solutions .
27 Such systems usually comprise rows of back-to-back adjustable pallet racking up to 12 metres high and separated by gangways as little as 1.2 metres wide — and rarely more than 1.9 metres wide .
28 The commission , looking at some gloomy Treasury Department projections , recommended a small trimming of benefits in the distant future and a speeding up of planned increases in payroll taxes .
29 If in fact very few young people are actually ‘ into ’ heroin , then all the media coverage , the ‘ war on drugs ’ , the setting up of new clinics and drugs squads , is all overreaction and should be stopped in its tracks now .
30 For this reason , the report has recommended the setting up of new agencies to monitor government spending and environmental impact .
  Next page