Example sentences of "[vb pp] up to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 32 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 33 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 34 | The First Granny , as Mrs Bush is becoming affectionately known , marched up to the uniformed bell-ringers beside the big Christmas tree , put ten bucks into the Big Red Kettle , and loudly announced how much she preferred patronising a mall that had the sense to permit the Salvation Army . |
| 35 | Furthermore , he will know that his contemporaries are not really too keen on its revelation : indeed they may well argue that the police have research facilities of their own which are geared up to the internal needs and interests of the institution ( Benyon 1988 : 21 ) . |
| 36 | Because of the competition we face from the new union , UNISON , we need application forms geared up to the particular industries that we require . |
| 37 | We 've only really got work for the the labourers in the form , even labourers are n't employed up to the ninth floor cos that work 's already been completed . |
| 38 | Joe always made sure there were a couple of swings rigged up to the spreaded branches for the children to enjoy . |
| 39 | From behind the church a ploughed field slanted up to the uncompromising skyline . |
| 40 | Later , when it was time to take Eddie back to school , Louise had kissed him at the gate and his father had walked up to the main door with him . |
| 41 | By 1975 the Worcester project was ‘ well under way ’ , and by 1979 all the beds and hospital places , which were provided up to the prescribed national levels proportional to the catchment population , had been opened . |
| 42 | The tube was then introduced up to the sigmoid colon with the endoscope acting as a guide When the balloons were inflated with air , two 8 cm long segments were established ( Fig 1 ) ; one in the rectum ( rectal segment ) and another in the sigmoid colon ( sigmoid segment ) . |
| 43 | ( The asses probably owe something to Koenig 's native Bavaria , where uxorious cows are garlanded and brought up to the Alpine pastures each summer . ) |
| 44 | With his skill as the basis , the Embalmer will not be content unless all other departments with which he has contact are brought up to the highest possible standard . |
| 45 | All cameras sold prior to these improvements will be brought up to the new specifications entirely free of charge . |
| 46 | In short , all existing and future minerals planning permissions must be brought up to the environmental standards expected today , and provision must be made for a regular upgrading of standards in the future . |
| 47 | He gave a thumbs-up sign then replaced it and manoeuvred his wheelchair round behind his desk where he tapped his security code into the IBM computer linked up to the central data bank elsewhere in the building . |
| 48 | The conflicts which have developed over land and housing can also be linked up to the very mobility of incomers . |
| 49 | Abbey National has woken up to the extra expense that a remortgage brings and is offering £200 towards legal fees on completion . |
| 50 | In posing the idea of such an ‘ iron law ’ Bukharin unwittingly predicted the actual course of events in the Soviet Union that has persisted up to the present time , that is , the continual shortfall of consumer goods production as compared to the growing population and the growth in monetary incomes . |
| 51 | The vaulting shafts run up to the full height of the building . |
| 52 | Cray Research Inc says it could sell 30 to 40 massively parallel systems in 1994 ‘ if we do things correctly ’ : Derek Robb , director of sales , told Reuter that Cray 's massively parallel systems cost several million dollars at the low end , and run up to the multi-millions ; they link together hundreds or thousands of Alpha RISC processors and in 1994 , Robb said , he ‘ could see ’ its parallel revenues reaching 25% of the Cray total ; at the very top end , customers ' budgets are now topping out at about $50m to $60m , he said , meaning the most processors it would likely offer on its T3D system is 2,048 . |
| 53 | In recession large firms concentrate more output within their own plant where economies of scale yield lower average costs compared to labour intensive subcontractors The advantages of a flexible industrial structure was greatly assisted up to the 1970s by a protected home market which gave companies a secure domestic base . |
| 54 | Results from the array of 21 sediment cores ( in gm -2 yr -1 ) were scaled up to the entire lake using Thiessen polygons . |
| 55 | Geoff 's greased up to the nines after putting on a eig eight tonne of Oil of Ulay |
| 56 | If you 're buying a cut tree , you 'll be paying obviously from where it 's cut up to the bottom branch , or if it 's a rooted tree you 'll be paying from ground level up to the bottom branch again . |
| 57 | It is easy to picture how it looked , for the steps and ball-topped garden gate piers to the left of it would have led up to the front door , and there would have been an exact replica of this wing to the far left . |
| 58 | And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then . |
| 59 | The next two years led up to the Civil War . |
| 60 | From where she stood on the gravelled forecourt , she saw that the flight of steps ahead led up to the living accommodation at the higher level , no doubt to exploit the panoramic view , while below , built into the slope , were the garages and stores . |