Example sentences of "[vb infin] up to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it could bring its cost-effectiveness nearer the average , it could recruit up to the establishment that the Home Secretary has recommended . ’ |
| 2 | So , for example , your High Elf army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Wood Elves chosen from the Wood Elf list , or Dwarfs chosen from the Dwarfs list . |
| 3 | So , for example , your Orc and Goblin army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Dark Elves chosen from the Dark Elf list , or Chaos chosen from the Chaos list . |
| 4 | So , for example , your Empire army could include up to a quarter of its points value as Wood Elves chosen from the Wood Elf list , or Dwarfs chosen from the Dwarf list . |
| 5 | The sidh , the strange , cold , faery race , who would steal up to the gates of Tara and sing the Wolfline into the world … |
| 6 | Because the body is deep it means the bream can not simply sidle up to a bait , suck it into its mouth and move on , all in one motion . |
| 7 | I could sidle up to the hi-fi and turn it off , snap on the light-switch and announce quite calmly to all the sycophants here that Luke Denner is nothing more than a callous murderer . |
| 8 | Once inside a gallery , Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore . |
| 9 | She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs . |
| 10 | As a Golf Plus Club Member you can enjoy up to a 20% discount on a year 's subscription to Britain 's best golf magazines bringing you the best pictures and best coverage of your favourite game . |
| 11 | When the unsuspecting man was safely ensconced in a deep slumber , Jarman would pull two bolts from the floor below , and the bed , which was screwed to the floor , would tip up to a 45° angle , sliding the poor wayfarer into a great vat of boiling fat strategically placed below . |
| 12 | Do you feel up to a bit of leg work ? ’ |
| 13 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |
| 14 | You 'd better warn him that I 'll expect to see him some time tomorrow , if he does n't feel up to an interview this evening , that is ! ’ |
| 15 | You know me , I run with the hare an' hunt with the hounds : I 'd suck up to the devil himself for a penny . ’ |
| 16 | They 're also looking at some of the data integrity erm issues one of which is potentially quite a major problem and the new system will for any qualifying plans , once the new system is in , if a policy 's in arrears it will try and collect the arrears and it will collect up to a maximum of two premiums each month until the policy 's in force and up to date . |
| 17 | A coffin-maker could look up to a funeral furnisher rather than to an undertaker ; an undertaker might have respected the funeral furnisher in as much as he could afford to buy in his coffins ; whereas the funeral furnisher , whilst relying on the coffin-maker , looked down on the undertaker ( Col. 2 ) . |
| 18 | This stuff ( as he put it to himself ) often does work up to a point . |
| 19 | PSD itself will then provide up to an addition £8.50 per week towards excess travelling costs . |
| 20 | Under this scheme you may donate up to a maximum of £240 a year to a charity or charities of your choice free of income tax . |
| 21 | The issue could even boil up to a climax this weekend when Bowe and his voluble manager Rock Newman are due in London to attend the BBC 's Sports Personality of the Year awards programme . |
| 22 | Honeydew melons ripen slowly and will often keep up to a month , but smaller varieties will take less time to ripen . |
| 23 | You had to eat yourself , of course , so there was a s You 'd run up to the hotel in called the Hotel and opposite was a family butcher and he used to sell dripping and bread . |
| 24 | I must just run up to the Casa to make sure the lorry comes back for another load . |
| 25 | The initial effort concentrated on the applicability gap , where the working party recommended : ( i ) that there should be a programme of collaborative research between the IT research community and the other engineering communities supported by the Engineering Board , ( ii ) that the research projects should be jointly funded by ITAB and the Engineering Board , and , ( iii ) that funding should build up to a total of £10 million per annum over five years . |
| 26 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 27 | Tourists can stay up to a maximum of 90 days in theory but longer is possible by showing a confirmed return air ticket . |
| 28 | He added : ‘ We have never said we would never sign up to a charter , but we are convinced this proposal would mean Community interference in areas like industrial relations law which are much better dealt with in Community countries . |
| 29 | After the marking of Nicaragua 's ‘ Tenth Year of Freedom ’ in 1989 , how do the prisons measure up to the government 's claims ? |
| 30 | Scholars , on the other hand , are all agog to see how these hitherto heavily obscured works will now measure up to the rest of Titian 's oeuvre . |