Example sentences of "[noun] up to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D'Angelo also relates the example of corporate America waking up to the belated realisation that what has become known as ‘ the pink economy ’ represents significant purchasing power . |
| 2 | One important difference between eurocheques and ordinary cheques is that each eurocheque is guaranteed by your eurocheque card up to the approximate currency equivalent of £100 . |
| 3 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 4 | Dizzily entranced by the yellow novelty , I floated free as wood smoke and fluttered around the noisy house , while my anaesthetised feet padded cement steps up to the front door . |
| 5 | There were two or three granite steps up to the front door which had a grubby ‘ Closed ’ notice hung behind its glass panel ; no bell , and no other door . |
| 6 | Besides , she was ultimately responsible to Liz for the twins ' welfare , Laura firmly reminded herself as they mounted the wide steps up to the front door of Lady Wyndham 's house . |
| 7 | But Luke was already climbing the stone steps up to the arched front door , and Folly 's question went unheard . |
| 8 | There were six steps up to the tiny stage , Gary would be playing the intro , and with each of the steps Madame would say a woman 's name , fingering one of the rings . |
| 9 | Moreover , MacDonald was in principle in favour of an election , but unable to secure agreement upon a formula which could reconcile protectionists and free traders up to the very last moment . |
| 10 | Both offer a choice of direct equity investment and unit trust investment up to the maximum £2,400 . |
| 11 | This constant cycle of warfare , involving fleets as mighty as the Spanish Armada , had kept Bouton in isolation up to the present day . |
| 12 | Ben jumped ashore and tied the rowboat up to the small , wooden jetty , then turned to give a hand to Peng Yu-wei who stood there , cradling a sleeping Meg in one arm . |
| 13 | The old soldiers used to sing a song about him called 'get up to the front Tom Brodie . ' |
| 14 | There were none because , after volunteering to bring Alina 's file from the records department up to the chief investigator 's desk , Pavel had quietly removed them in the corridor . |
| 15 | I am sure that West Yorkshire will welcome any assistance that the schemes can give , and will also appreciate that its rate support grant has increased by 16 per cent. , but that does not mean that it can bring its force up to the required standard . |
| 16 | pending the receipt of prompt instructions from the bank/organisation keep its interest in the policy in force up to the full sum insured and for the same risks as were covered when the bank's/organisation 's interest was notified ( subject to the insurance not having been replaced elsewhere with the consent of consent of the bank/organisation ) . |
| 17 | It is dispersals of this People 's University of books bequeathed by the Victorians and their successors up to the postwar years that are the real reason for the library 's losing its soul , as Richard Hoggart so aptly put it . |
| 18 | Most of the recruits to the senior positions were from within the industry and in the months up to the planned vesting day — 1 April 1948 — most retained their old jobs in the pre-vesting undertakings as well as carrying out their new responsibilities of planning for the change . |
| 19 | We 've found that own brands are from thirty five pence up to the top quality brands are something like eighty five pence and we feel we 've hit the market in the middle there . |
| 20 | Good views of the Pre de Bar glacier on the climb up to the Italian/Swiss border at the Col du Grand Ferret . |
| 21 | In Abbel Mr Justice found it appropriate for the plaintiff quote , to recompense his parents up to the commercial rate for one full time carer , unquote . |
| 22 | She had stayed at work up to the proper time to get the full benefits and she had felt important enough , leaving to have a baby , for the loneliness to be kept at bay for the time leading up to her last day . |
| 23 | Coun Cummings is receiving rehabilitation therapy at Clatterbridge Hospital and on Monday he will travel for a check up to the Royal Brompton Hospital in London , where the bypass surgery was carried out . |
| 24 | She went to the French General 's stirrup and held the pathetic bouquet up to the grim-faced man . |
| 25 | Hale 's choice to retain the medieval approach to consent in the case of married women only was to shape the course of the law up to the present day . |
| 26 | My aunt asked a few questions , and ascertained that the lady 's pain was originating from her lower right abdomen — the general area of her right thigh up to the right side of her stomach . |
| 27 | Similar settlement histories have occurred in the Gangetic plain and Doabs of northern India ( Schlich 1889 : 187–238 ) and Brazil up to the present day . |
| 28 | In the run up to the Great Exhibition of 1851 he produced sample sheets with a watermarked light and shade portrait of Queen Victoria : later these exquisite watermarks became part of his stock-in-trade and were described as a ‘ degree of perfection … the quintessence of the papermaking craft ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 30 | He claimed it would allow Heseltine to avoid mentioning that Britain was lagging behind Europe in curbing carbon emissions in the run up to the general election . |