Example sentences of "[adv] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Moving averages would normally be used for short term forecasting , perhaps up to a maximum of a few ( say 3 to 6 ) months ahead .
2 ’ He seemed to sigh , and his eyes went starkly up to the spear-point .
3 Quite , providing there was only one representative , and we were n't overburdened , providing it was clearly understood that they were there almost in the same way that a local member would be , to speak on a given item , and not to vote , then I do n't think we 'd have any objections , but it 's entirely up to the Committee , how do you feel ?
4 At the end of the day , how a member state organises itself is entirely up to the member state itself .
5 So that 's , entirely up to the pair of you .
6 Where the tail goes from there is entirely up to the driver .
7 If only one partner is Catholic , permission to marry in a non-Catholic church may be given but is entirely up to the discretion of the priest .
8 Can I make a suggestion then that on this we change the suggested If you just put down that the enquiry form is farmed by the researchers full stop , and leave any related documents entirely up to the discretion of each and
9 He crowed suddenly up at the drawings tacked on the wall , then at other times was perfectly quiet and lovely , just looking at things , motes of light , bits of fluff , a pencil .
10 of course until December so at least still very much up in the air , but certainly the estimates of the current year are produced of highly
11 They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century .
12 Laura gasped breathlessly as he raised his dark head , gazing fondly up at the man she loved so much .
13 She had come up to Jasper , who caught her wrist in his bony grip , and they ran together up towards the Underground .
14 But only up to a point , you see .
15 Only up to a point : without oil Saddam Hussein would not have invaded Kuwait ; nor would his invasion have threatened the West 's security .
16 McFarlane took it to heart also , but only up to a point .
17 Tolkien 's opinions here are clear only up to a point .
18 Burton 's local fame grew in contradicting this up to a point — but only up to a point .
19 An American president can decide to focus on domestic policy only up to a point ; events in the wider world , leaders of other countries , have a habit of eating into time that the president thought he would spend on other things .
20 The three businessmen-politicians can be lumped together , but only up to a point .
21 Even the conservatives in the House could not be entirely depended on , for all but a few of them were no more than ‘ Hooverites ’ to use Stockman 's contemptuous label ; they were keen on budget-cutting only up to a point and were anxious that the budget should be balanced , but they had no stomach for swingeing tax cuts — the main article of the supply-side faith .
22 The answer is , yes it is , but only up to a point .
23 ‘ Though that is true only up to a point — last year after the dog fox was killed on the road the vixen called for three nights , the saddest sound I ever heard . ’
24 But only up to a point .
25 That is true only up to a point .
26 That is true , but only up to a point ; I have found the procedures laborious at times but usually vital , and SCOTVEC 's full-time officers invariably helpful and cheery .
27 Well only up to a point Lord Copper .
28 It may be noticed too that our analysis rather simplified the relation between awareness and spontaneity , taking account of the awareness only up to the rousing of the impulse .
29 He put it best , perhaps , when he said that the writer must wade into life as into the sea , but only up to the navel .
30 Though Halsey 's figures reach only up to the mid-1960s , other data show that the expansion of universities from the late 1960s onwards has not benefited the working class as much as the professional classes .
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