Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The answer is you do , providing it is n't wild and wet , but then little stands up to that .
2 ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years .
3 Loans are intended to supplement finance obtained from other sources , and so the EIB only lends up to 40 per cent of the cost of fixed investments of a project with a minimum size of around £1 million .
4 However , the subject of commission rarely crops up with major artists .
5 Lynda Moss agrees : ‘ 1,1,1-trichloroethane rarely crops up in published syntheses — a heck of a lot of syntheses use methylene chloride [ dichloromethane ] however ’ .
6 As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’
7 On the other hand , the LIMB database generally receives up to ten copies of each item , so it is possible to send out copies for retention to requesting librarians , and a loan system is regarded as administratively cumbersome .
8 From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries .
9 It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts .
10 The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children .
11 do n't normally stays up like that
12 The latter is a very slow growing starter and is happier without peat at planting time — in fact , it grows best for me in builder 's rubble and when it does get going soon catches up on lost time .
13 Every number ga always goes up to nine .
14 Turkey , which seized the northern third of Cyprus in 1974 and still has up to 30,000 troops here , withheld immediate comment on Mr Clerides ' victory .
15 When the patient is in bed , he usually uses up to three pillows plus a wedge cushion support for his head and shoulders , to counteract spasticity ( p. 49 ) .
16 Even when the weather is too bad for astronomical observing , Alcock still wakes up at two-hourly intervals during the night to make meteorological observations .
17 Nevertheless , the dominant female still ends up with most eggs .
18 He 'd been hired by the man 's parents but still faces up to 20 years in gaol .
19 Herriot quite skilfully opens up with one or two of the more moving tales , and stitches it all back together again , quite painlessly , but when you wake up at the end , it is as if nothing had happened . ’
20 Useful load also goes up to 450 kilos from 380 .
21 The preamp , apart from delivering as pure a signal as possible , also offers up to 128 fully programmable equalisation and volume settings ; these can then be stored in the D12 's memory and recalled by using the unit 's front-panel keypad , a MIDI controller or the Decimax FC-60 footswitch .
22 The player also offers up to ten hours continuous playing time if two additional rechargeable batteries are added to the basic pair , which themselves provide up to two-and-a-half hours play .
23 A great many doctors feel that chemical sensitivity is improbable — a dubious diagnosis that probably covers up for psychosomatic illness , hyperventilation , or purely psychological symptoms .
24 Sun Microsystems Inc has a new desktop SBus Expansion Subsystem that provides three more SBus slots for several of the its workstations and servers , and enables use of single and double width boards ; it also accommodates up to two 424Mb disk drives and will be available from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunExpress at $2,500 in July .
25 An on-line Snapshot backup facility automatically keeps up to 20 logical copies of the entire system on the RAID disk array and can be used to make tape backups .
26 An on-line Snapshot back-up facility automatically keeps up to 20 logical copies of the entire system on the RAID disk array and can be used to make tape back-ups .
27 Straight tracks up to fifty miles ( 80 km ) in length , often aligned to a mountain top , were still in use by local inhabitants .
28 The A2 automatically boots up in individual mode .
29 Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . .
30 But the Journal also comes up with some curious contradictions : 36 per cent blame the microwave for poorer flavour , 20 per cent think it makes food soggy .
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