Example sentences of "[vb -s] up [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It has up to 64 input-output channels , supports TCP/IP and Ethernet , has C++ , C , and Fortran libraries with VAX extensions , supports Oracle in a client-server environment and fits in a deskside cabinet 29″ by 18″ by 30″ .
2 Tommy 's record as a manager stands up to any scrutiny ; two championships , three Bass Cups , ten other trophies and regular jaunts to Europe .
3 Wrangham 's theory remains tentative but if it stands up to further investigation it suggests that humans were primordially partrilineal .
4 It adds up to unbeatable value .
5 ‘ Good resettlement adds up to good recruitment . ’
6 Of course , the fewer calories the body uses from food the more it must draw from your surplus body fat , so this adds up to faster weight loss .
7 Winnicott traces out how from infancy onwards individuals learn to make a space between themselves and others , and yet avoid total separation by ‘ the filling in of the potential space with creative living , with the use of symbols , and with all that adds up to cultural life ’ ( Winnicott , 1971 ) .
8 Whatever you choose it all adds up to luxury glamour , romance , elegance , and Citalia .
9 According to my arithmetic that adds up to 35 guillotine motions , which is unprecedented in modern times — indeed , ever , so far as I can judge .
10 This is perhaps believed by practitioners rather than being a view that holds up to epistemological scrutiny .
11 Indeed , Bailey holds up for critical scrutiny the idea that schools can prepare young people for a world of rapid technological change by concentrating on the very technology which is subject to change ; rather , he suggests , the best basis for adaptability is a liberal education aimed at generating a wide understanding and the development of reason and autonomy .
12 The R4000 SuperMax comes in an eight CPU configuration and incorporates up to eight disk controllers , 20Gb disk and can support up to 1,000 workstations — prices start go from £30,000 to £300,000 .
13 A great many doctors feel that chemical sensitivity is improbable — a dubious diagnosis that probably covers up for psychosomatic illness , hyperventilation , or purely psychological symptoms .
14 It spins up in one second ; evaluation units now at $500 .
15 As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’
16 It forms a film all over the surface and essentially erm climbs up through this film and , and will empty out of the bucket .
17 CRAY ENVISAGES UP TO 1,024 ALPHA RISCs IN PARALLEL SYSTEM NEXT YEAR
18 It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it .
19 Bono wakes up from some sort of indulgent ( but more realistic than you realise ) reverie .
20 Viewed structurally and organically , it is the firing line manager in whom all authority and responsibility centre ; only what he can not do himself passes up to higher management ’ .
21 Right Said Fred singer Fred Fairbrass points it out as he meets up with ex-Brookside star Annie Miles .
22 Town tunes up for top brass THE sound of music will take over at Rhyl 's seafront New Pavilion Theatre when 36 top brass bands compete in the second annual Rhyl Festival of Brass , on the weekend of June 19–20 .
23 According to European manager Rick Mellinger , ImageFlow is n't tightly-coupled to an application : instead , the client-server-based software links up to any application via an Application Programming Interface , enabling workflow processing to be separated from application processing .
24 However , Figure 18–1 is simplified by assuming constant average and marginal short-run operating costs up to full capacity .
25 This costs up to 2 p.c. of the sum converted with the possibility of a £3 handling charge if you opt for non-sterling or American dollar denominated cheques .
26 She says : ‘ We all have an electric force field surrounding us — an aura — which shows up with Kirlian photography .
27 The next stage of the work , says Dainty , is to eliminate a layer phenomenon called ionic motion , which shows up as slight hysteresis in the capacitance/voltage plot of the layer .
28 In this event a ‘ high-bay ’ warehouse shows up to great advantage because it is feasible to mix guaranteed products with non-guaranteed products because separation is accurately maintained within the control system .
29 Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages .
30 The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children .
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