Example sentences of "[vb pp] up to a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
2 | These two incidents hardly added up to a minimal knowledge of the principality . |
3 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
4 | Lifted up to a new level and a new nearness to our Lord Jesus Christ . |
5 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
6 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
7 | Fitted in-car audio/telecommunication equipment is included up to a total value of £500 . |
8 | All pipe materials can be painted : copper can be polished up to a fine shine if you like the ship 's engine room effect . |
9 | The latter had now been built up to a reasonable size with the main mill , a dye house , out buildings , stove , stables , press shop and store houses , as well as the grist mill . |
10 | ‘ The money I get for the scrap is paid into the Finance Department , and when the fund has built up to a worthwhile sum I 'll be calling for suggestions for a local charity to whom we can donate the cash . ’ |
11 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
12 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
13 | The basic characteristic of the H.T. is that the flowers are invariably double with so many petals — sometimes to their detriment in wet weather — that the centre becomes pushed up to a high point — in the classic shape that everybody likes to see . |
14 | This would enable parcels of instruments to be made up to a given value , type or maturity for sale and thus improve their marketability . |
15 | the anniversary of its incorporation or , if its last return was made up to a different date , the anniversary of that date . |
16 | They were shown up to a double room , and Paul stood slackly , wetting his lips . |
17 | A wing-hair was drawn up to a crackling wood fire and Mrs Gotobed sat in it . |
18 | THE debate on ways in which Merseyside might benefit from up to £1bn in EC grants is being opened up to a wider audience in a novel fashion later this month . |
19 | Gregory Woods 's remark , quoted at the beginning of this article , suggests , in a rather deliriously utopian , post-Barthes kind of way , that any text can be opened up to a gay interpretation if gay readers decide it to be appropriate — authorial intention is here surrendered in favour of a sort of subcultural authorship , a collective ‘ special thrill ’ , a method of analysis based on a recognition of shared structures of feeling . |
20 | Poorly ventilated and stagnant spaces must be opened up to a constant current of air by the introduction of new ventilation openings as even a vigorous attack of dry rot can be arrested ( but not reduced ) by exposure to fresh air . |
21 | Very important for the physics , because what 's happening at that point as far as the physics is concerned , when the acceleration is zero , not , think of a racing car accelerating up to top speed , down the straight and it just ca n't go any faster , it 's got up to a hundred and eighty miles an hour , and it 's |
22 | But I 'm , but I 'm sure it 'd got up to a hundred and something pounds . |
23 | It 's beleived up to a dozen men and women are employed on his estate and today despite the news , the work went on . |
24 | Customers will be able to opt for discounts worth £20 for every £250 invested up to a maximum investment of £3,750 or for bonus shares on the basis of one for every 10 bought . |
25 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
26 | ‘ That 's why we did not get tied up to a long deal before . |
27 | Somewhere within that radius there 'll be a receiver , probably rigged up to a voice-activated tape recorder . |
28 | And I would n't say that we were being fleeced , I mean I , I think we 've always been fleeced up to a certain point but they were always making a loss in the past and |
29 | If you wish to have separate UICs , simply copy the account you have already set up to a new UIC and VMS account name . |
30 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |