Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] up to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are using up to five times the energy that we really need to move , then it is hardly surprising that , after a long day , all we can do is ‘ collapse in a heap ’ ! |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 3 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 4 | Large numbers of British birds are nesting up to 22 days earlier than normal , possibly reflecting changes in climate as a result of global warming , according to a report by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 5 | Got to stop and then you say you 're going up to middle class . |
| 6 | What that means is that when you 're facing up to foreign situations , you tend to pull together you tend not to divide you tend not to emphasise the differences between you . |
| 7 | And erm the erm your view is completely blocked altogether when you 're coming up to that roundabout , as you know they come up from erm Southfield Road and Divinity Road which comes up on to that roundabout , and erm I think it 's very very dangerous . |
| 8 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 9 | They had clearly been leading up to this all week . |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 11 | So when you got pass there Ju do n't forget you say I am going up to middle class ! |
| 12 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
| 13 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 14 | Officially , the Government has been expecting up to one million appeals . |
| 15 | Twenty-eight per cent — nearly one in three — of primary schools in the study are shaving up to one hour a week off teaching time . |
| 16 | Instead , market share has been stolen from law-abiding retailers and the smaller shops , many of which have lost and are losing up to 50 per cent . |
| 17 | Yes Karen all right I 'm building up to that for goodness sake . |
| 18 | The biggest and most competitive game of the day will be up at Eaton Park , where Ballymena take on Instonians , two teams who will be squaring up to each other in the AIL Division Two next season . |
| 19 | I 'm going up to that there mass of spaghetti , and I 'm going to make sure . ’ |
| 20 | This could only be leading up to one thing : when are you going to marry my daughter ? |
| 21 | Stevenson , a quick-moving , stocky northerner with a distinguished record in every possible branch of the Met , was rumoured to be going up to Assistant Commissioner just as soon as the present incumbent retired . |
| 22 | " You wo n't be riding up to High Tor any more , I suppose ? " |
| 23 | AS world leaders journey to Rio for the Earth Summit meeting , a gathering at Middlesbrough 's St Mary 's Centre will be facing up to some of the issues confronting world leaders in Brazil . |
| 24 | By 2020 , China could be emitting up to three times the US total ( although its per capita figure will probably stay below the US ) . |
| 25 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 26 | Now it claims to be receiving up to ten a week , with Glasgow and Yorkshire emerging as illegal software hot spots . |
| 27 | An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal , pointed out that babies in fluoridated areas who drink dried milk formulae made up with water containing 1 ppm fluoride , are ingesting up to 100 times the amount of fluoride they would obtain from mother 's milk ( vol 283. p 76 ) . |
| 28 | They have been taking up to 100,000 salmon and sea-trout a year and probably many more if the truth were known . |
| 29 | Every month the authorities are issuing up to 14,000 new business permits , many of them for shops and stalls . |
| 30 | I believe they are standing up to this tour well . |