Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The kind who were disappointed not to see the panzers driving up to Buckingham Palace ? ’ |
| 2 | 3.21 The Working Party 's Guidelines are expressed to be based upon an analysis of cases reported up to September 1991 . |
| 3 | Because there is pressure on departments in humanistic subjects to appear up to date and efficient , it is much easier to persuade funding bodies to give money for computers and software than to buy manuscripts , rare books , or second and third copies of frequently used library texts . |
| 4 | She drew comparisons between the present crisis concerning Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and the experience of 1938 , declaring that " Czechoslovakia of all countries needs no reminding of the need for nations to stand up to bullies and do so at once " . |
| 5 | Dead-heading climbers and ramblers can often be a massive job involving step ladders to reach up to pergolas , arches and walls , and the larger shrub types can present the same problem . |
| 6 | According to Anne Mountfield of the Directory of Social Change ( Mountfield 1991 ) schools received up to £100 million from parents and charities with an equal amount being donated in funds and services by industry . |
| 7 | Some boarding schools charge up to £10,000 per annum so its little wonder that a rising number of children are being taken away and placed in cheaper day schools or back into state schools . |
| 8 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 9 | Here , Miller describes their encounters in the months leading up to Ali 's 50th birthday |
| 10 | On the positive side , however , the months leading up to independence offer time to discuss the future direction of the country and to draw up specific plans . |
| 11 | On the positive side , however , the months leading up to independence offer time to discuss the future direction of the country and to draw up specific plans . |
| 12 | Wednesday 's tie , which Jack Charlton 's team need to win to help them reach next year 's World Cup finals in the US , will be shown live at about 70 Irish locations to supporters paying up to £10 a time . |
| 13 | Similar reef limestones extend up to Scandinavia , where they reach heir finest development in the island of Gotland out in the Baltic . |
| 14 | Unexpectedly peaceful gardens with Delphinium called Johnson 's Blue , some mauve-white and cobalt Campanula ; peonies ; poppies ; trefoils in brilliant mauve ; scents of lavender and musk rose ; four phallic cypress bushes , two of acid-green-yellow , two of dark green ; on the tower , eyeless turrets each with a little pennanted wind-vane , the wind is from the west and the flag flies , brilliant yellow predominating , a ship with sails filled , a cross in black and red , and an antlered deer 's head ; in the bright , southern lee of the castle 's core , long buildings roofed with tiny slates , stepped corners ; the comfort of a loosely-enclosed , highly aromatic rose-garden ; a peony walk , a wall of Euphorbia ; in the reaches of the garden , oasal recesses , stone steps leading up to stone seats ; a bee visited along thick heavy honeysuckle ; rectangular stone troughs , abundant and velvet with flowering plants ; old walls placid with centuries of absorbed heat from the sun ; a holly tree : did Cawdor once contain all the seven sacred trees from the Celtic grove ? |
| 15 | Do your kids go up to School then is that where they went ? |
| 16 | The chairs we have now were actually designed with our chat show in mind , not so low that knees come up to chins and reveal too much sock , nor so wide as to encourage fidgeting , with an upright back to prevent slouching , and arm rests to give the nervous something to grip . |
| 17 | Do not they also draw attention to the willingness of some countries and some parties to sign up to measures that they have no intention of implementing ? |
| 18 | It can save a large office or factory thousands of pounds in wiring costs : lights and heaters no longer need individually-wired switches costing up to £50 each . |
| 19 | Handmade dolls with china faces and elegant costumes cost up to £90 . |
| 20 | Charollais sheep enthusiasts paid up to 2000gns twice when the Gall flock of J Maxwell and Sons , Lockerbie , was dispersed including guest consignments from the Netherallan and Broomhouses flocks . |
| 21 | But the monomode fibre that British Telecom favours for its trunk lines costs up to £700 per kilometre . |
| 22 | Instead , one has to have a collection of gluons whose colors add up to white . |
| 23 | LLANRWST : Bob Parry wish to report an entry of 1,039 fat lambs hoggets and ewes , 36 fat cattle and barren cows , lambs a steady trade throughout averaging 119.81p , fat cattle a very fast trade with insufficient to meet demand resulting in an overall average of 147.24p , barrens selling up to 127p , with an overall average of 110.38p . |
| 24 | London posts attract up to £1,750 more . |
| 25 | Most volumes appeared during the two decades leading up to World War 1 . |
| 26 | And , excluding oil and other erratic items , the underlying deficit with non-EC countries went up to £711m in April . |
| 27 | Lightweight lambs cleared up to 175p for 21.5k at £37.50 from P Kelly , Markethill . |
| 28 | But Nutty 's team just ran when they were doing other things , like to school or to the refrigerator factory , and Nails ran up to Carter 's field every night and down every morning and swam a few lengths of the Smiths ' pool to get the smell of compost off him when the others complained . |
| 29 | I have looked at the evidence of so-called student hardship and I do not accept that the ’ scores ’ of cases stand up to examination . |
| 30 | Does the Secretary of State agree that the individual totals announced today do not in all cases stand up to comparison with real-terms increases south of the border ? |