Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] to [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE former Soviet Union 's Aeroflot is by far the world 's largest airline-it has up to 1,500 aircraft and provides about a tenth of all air travel . |
| 2 | Microsoft 's simple arithmetic adds up to 25,000 people who know something about NT . |
| 3 | There appears to be a gimmick on the throttle causing it to idle at some 1200 rpm when cold , although it drops back to 600 rpm when hot . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 6 | It grows up to 12.000 ft . |
| 7 | and then , that week , he sell 's ten pence a can , then the following week he still bought it ten pence , following week it goes up to eighteen pence , but he 's still selling what , so I do n't think it , I think . |
| 8 | And on the front sheet o entitled affordable housing , we see there that in the case of Hambleton we 'd be looking at forty one percent , of the remaining dwellings being unaffordable being affordable houses , down to York where it goes up to ninety percent . |
| 9 | The plants reproduced by means of spores , which were born in cones ; the spores were often of two kinds — large ( female ) megaspores up to 2 mm in diameter and much smaller ( male ) microspores . |
| 10 | The leader , who is the tow aircraft for this sequence , dives down to 5000 ft . |
| 11 | Owned by Ladbrokes , the service charges up to 44 pence a minute . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State will be aware of the uncertainty surrounding the future of the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station , which employs up to 200 people in my constituency . |
| 13 | The Challenge XL , a rack-mounted system , is configured with up to 36 R4400 processors , delivers up to 4,000 MIPS , comes with from 128Mb to 2Gb RAM ( 16Gb from year-end ) , up to one Tb of disk , 4Tb of RAID , and includes the same connectivity options as the deskside systems . |
| 14 | Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people . |
| 15 | The jungle cat , which weighs up to 20 lb ( 9 kg ) , preys largely on birds including pheasants and jungle fowl and lives in the drier and more open forest . |
| 16 | Each WRVS delivery round serves up to 40 people a day over a two-hour period around lunch time . |
| 17 | A meals-on-wheels service was started in Keyingham in 1963 , which still operates and serves up to 20 people twice a week . |
| 18 | AMONG the super savings is this voucher which admits up to four people to the American Adventure Theme Park for just £3 each . |
| 19 | It supports up to 60 people and costs £400 for a starter kit comprising operating software , cabling and two 16-bit boards ; or £200 for the kit including two 8-bit boards . |
| 20 | The early Funafuti boring reached 340m ( approx. 1 130ft ) while seismic work suggests up to 760 m ( approx.2 530 ft ) of coral overlying volcanic rock there . |
| 21 | Erm , so if you , if you do the easy one , and let's say it comes out to ten pence per gram , and you do the difficult one and it comes to a hundred and three pence per gram , right , or point nought one pence per gram |