Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] up to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 2 | She says well , we can only take up to the value of your car , , which is more than they did ! |
| 3 | If you want to know any more about what he 's doing you 'd better go up to the camp and ask him yourself . ’ |
| 4 | Too often , noise has meant a level plane of abraded texture , which can merely add up to a different kind of blandness , a sense-dulling consistency . |
| 5 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 6 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 7 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 8 | Probably I 'd just go up to the pub but I ca n't be bothered . |
| 9 | When one of them could no longer come up to the scratch line at the beginning of a round he was held to have lost the match . |
| 10 | On top of the official fee of up to 10 yuan ( about $1 ) a term , many schools add on other charges , for repairing crumbling school buildings , topping up teachers ' meagre pay or buying books , which can easily add up to the equivalent of $10 a month . |
| 11 | The General Board may dispense any professor from discharging the duties of his office during one term ( i.e. a term of sabbatical leave ) for every six terms of qualifying service , provided that ( i ) qualifying service shall normally accumulate up to a maximum of eighteen terms , from which six terms are deducted whenever a term of leave is granted , and ( ii ) not more than three terms of sabbatical leave shall be granted in any one period of three years . |
| 12 | In this situation you should gradually work up to the 20-minute target . |
| 13 | One can hardly go up to an admiral of the fleet and ask him what he was doing on the night of Friday the thirteenth . |
| 14 | No one would ever go up to a man and comment on what 's in his trousers ! |
| 15 | Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life . |
| 16 | Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience . |
| 17 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 18 | But she , she could bleeding dress up to the nines . |
| 19 | A new building could also face up to the logistical problems presented by so much contemporary art : vast canvases , dispersed installations , massive weights ( the Serra sculptures currently on show required the floor to be shored up ) , and ultra-sensitive materials . |
| 20 | Honeydew melons ripen slowly and will often keep up to a month , but smaller varieties will take less time to ripen . |
| 21 | Scholars , on the other hand , are all agog to see how these hitherto heavily obscured works will now measure up to the rest of Titian 's oeuvre . |
| 22 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 23 | It is very difficult at times to say whether the clusters do really add up to a representation of the whole . |
| 24 | Because the body is deep it means the bream can not simply sidle up to a bait , suck it into its mouth and move on , all in one motion . |
| 25 | The issue could even boil up to a climax this weekend when Bowe and his voluble manager Rock Newman are due in London to attend the BBC 's Sports Personality of the Year awards programme . |
| 26 | Long time officials , lay officials , staff at the organization , you might as well face up to the fact colleagues , a lot of you will have to go . |
| 27 | It does not even come up to the extremely modest levels of convenience that the shepherds expected when they took to the hills for the summer with their animals ; also on show in Lourdes 's museum is a portable wooden cabin , with handles at either end , like a horizontal sedan chair . |
| 28 | I still pray for Gary and continue to hope that he will eventually live up to the professions of faith that he has made . |
| 29 | The Department has denied there 's anything secret about the plans , but objectors claim a series of bypasses and road-widening will eventually add up to a new motorway . |
| 30 | Whatever figure you choose , you can then borrow up to a given multiple of that amount whenever you like , either in a lump sum or in small irregular amounts . |