Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |
| 2 | An alternative procedure yields rafts of trophectodermal epithelium from the mural region of the blastocyst , and involves forming " giant " blastocysts by aggregating together up to 10 morulae as described in Section 3.3 . |
| 3 | Payment terms , for example , are generally much shorter than those of book publishers , usually only up to 30 days credit , and this needs to be taken on board as it affects cashflow , stock turn , and ultimately , profitability . |
| 4 | I only up to seven hours in a fortnight . |
| 5 | However , this pastoral mission is not only up against hardened heathens , but it also considers that some ought not even to be read the lesson . |
| 6 | Now obviously up to five years , sixty thousand , we agree manufacturers ' recommendations . |
| 7 | Each Marking Kit contains seven overlays , so up to seven teachers can mark together at the same time . |
| 8 | The accumulation of debris flows in this area has caused the shelf-edge to have prograded seawards up to 5 kilometres in places . |
| 9 | Elsewhere up to 40 pairs have been counted at Chichester and Rye Harbour gravel pits recently . |
| 10 | Computing devices linked by the channel can be physically up to six miles apart . |
| 11 | Such lending ( generally up to two years ) can be unsecured but often some form of security , i.e. collateral , is demanded such as legal ownership of all or some of the exporter 's business assets . |
| 12 | The 1992 RIBA Trustees Medal , endowed by Marley plc for the best architecture of its time , normally up to 25 years of age , anywhere in the world by a living British designer , was presented to Sir Denys Lasdun for the Royal College of Physicians , London . |
| 13 | It was an extraordinary 32 metres long , weighing possibly up to 100 tons . |
| 14 | A particular research project that I and two colleagues , Keith Baker and Erin Sloman , have a grant from the Science Research Council for is to look first of all at the problems of getting such as system with , well at the moment three but possibly up to twelve computers , working on a given existing artificial intelligence problem to see how to take this big program — it 's called Popeye — it 's a research project to study various areas of visual perception , as you say — to see how to break this down and have it running simultaneously on a number of much smaller computers , rather than on the single big computer that it 's running on at the moment . |
| 15 | He was always up to these tricks . |
| 16 | In the abdomen behind there is a muscle which can pull the wall back and forth up to 600 times a second . |
| 17 | Heights are usually up to 12.5 metres and lengths of about 20 metres . |
| 18 | For an initial period ( usually up to 12 months but up to 2 years for some people ) , your line manager will closely monitor your progress . |
| 19 | Under section 2 or 3 this involves detention respectively up to 28 days or six months . |
| 20 | Taking one thing with another : body temperature , ambient temperature , the fact that Saturn is in the ascendant and it 's Sunday , I 'd say he 's been dead up to eighteen hours , probably not less than fourteen , that puts it between nine and one last night . |
| 21 | In neither form of action could the plaintiff be sure of recovering his goods in specie since the judgment in trespass was for damages and in detinue gave the defendant the option of giving up the goods or paying damages but it is unlikely that this was considered a defect and it should be noted that the remedy of specific restitution of chattels has remained unusual right up to modern times . |
| 22 | Right up to five marks . |
| 23 | The instruments available in the shop will range from budget beginners ' guitars right up to custom-made guitars and basses , all set up and adjusted by Hugh Manson to give the same service previously offered to Jeff Beck , Andy Summers , John Giblin ( Simple Minds , Kate Bush ) , The Sisters Of Mercy and Led Zeppelin 's John Paul Jones , to name a few . |
| 24 | Either traverse right until just right of the arête , then boldly straight up on small holds to an easing in the angle and protection , or take a lower traverse across the wall until it is possible to work back up and leftwards to join the direct way at the protection . |
| 25 | This implies that there were probably up to 300 injectors among Wirral 's known heroin users in 1985–6 , enough to make the potential spread of HIV infection in Wirral an issue of major concern . |
| 26 | Except when they are earned by the professor as the supervisor of graduate students , as an academic adviser under the regulations for Recognized Students , or ( subject to the approval of the faculty board or boards concerned and the General Board , including approval as to the length of time for which the permission shall be given ) in respect of tutorial teaching for up to four hours per week ( exceptionally up to six hours per week ) , any fees received for lectures or instruction given by the professor in the University shall be applied towards meeting the expenses of the department of which he is in charge or , if he is not in charge of the department , shall be paid to the Curators of the University Chest for the credit of the University General Fund . |
| 27 | Many of its main weapons , from tanks and aircraft to submarines , were bootlegged and upgraded from Soviet designs that are now up to 40 years old . |
| 28 | It is now up to 305 members , the last five coming in the last week alone . |
| 29 | It is now up to 305 members , the last five coming in last week alone . |
| 30 | LARGER diameter pipe must be bought in straight lengths [ now up to 24 metres ] . |