Example sentences of "add [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other possible way of answering your question is to think in terms of having a large project in which you would write a whole series of poems that would add up into a book , which as it happens I have just done , since I have just published a book of poems which are all retellings of bible stories , and there the subjects quite clearly came from the outside , though I mean unless they latch onto something inside you they wo n't make poems . |
| 2 | The bridge between the different elements that , between them , could add up to a story , is space , he wrote . |
| 3 | Too often , noise has meant a level plane of abraded texture , which can merely add up to a different kind of blandness , a sense-dulling consistency . |
| 4 | Her lawyer , Mr Richard McLaughlin QC , said the structured settlement would add up to a total of £4.9 million if Miss McCloskey lives to 78 , the normal life expectancy for a woman . |
| 5 | While what he says may not add up to a warning in the strict disciplinary sense , you should be left in no doubt about where you stand . |
| 6 | It is very difficult at times to say whether the clusters do really add up to a representation of the whole . |
| 7 | Relatively unimportant as these smaller losses may seem compared with the main one , together they may add up to a total picture of her life which she feels has been shattered overnight by a single blow . |
| 8 | Here 's our driver , whom you may never have seen before ; there 's your vehicle plus its load which can add up to a pretty expensive package . |
| 9 | Basically they need to be able to understand the idea that ‘ tokens ’ may add up to a big reward . |
| 10 | An ease in grade plus the bonus of Trap 1 should all add up to a return to form for the Gordon Hodson runner . |
| 11 | Results are due in a couple of weeks but there are those who claim Sun 's run rate ca n't possibly add up to a quarter of a million units a year . |
| 12 | Assuming one is evident , Kondratiev 's discovery alone does not add up to a theoretical framework . |
| 13 | But putting these accounts together does not unfortunately add up to a multi-dimensional model which could provide the basis for a general theory ; it only amplifies their essentialism . |
| 14 | They 're both the same angle for a start , because we 've got an isosceles triangle , and forty five plus two X must add up to a hundred and eighty . |
| 15 | Right all have got ta add up to a hundred and eighty has n't it . |
| 16 | However , these positive steps still did not add up to a radical new direction for farming on the scale that is needed . |
| 17 | The times of death seemed to span the whole day , but he could n't be sure the thirty-eight covered everybody who died that day because the numbers of each certificate did n't add up to a complete sequence . |
| 18 | ’ It 's not as if they would add up to a great sum . ’ |
| 19 | Secondly , although the anecdotal nature of my illustrations do not add up to a seriously informative lecture , with full classifications and statistical support , I do hope they identify areas of particular neglect in our English language studies , and suggest the fruitfulness of these topics for further work . |
| 20 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook said earlier , we have seen only a few small and rather insignificant measures that do not add up to a large impact on our criminal justice system , which is crying out for fundamental change . |
| 21 | But all this did not yet add up to a widespread expectation in London that Anglo-American relations would or should retain their wartime intimacy . |
| 22 | The Department has denied there 's anything secret about the plans , but objectors claim a series of bypasses and road-widening will eventually add up to a new motorway . |
| 23 | Now um these percentages do n't add up to a hundred . |
| 24 | On their own , these do not add up to an animal shape , and disruption is achieved . |
| 25 | All this should add up to an exceedingly varied tonal palette indeed . |
| 26 | Without the roots of extensive planning ‘ these developments did not add up to an articulate challenge to the restoration of bourgeois rule in Japan ’ ( Armstrong , Glynn and Harrison 1984 p.39 ) . |
| 27 | All the small modifications should add up over a period of time to make major achievements . |