Example sentences of "and [vb base] up to " in BNC.

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1 They fill their lungs to capacity , and change up to 90 per cent of the air with each breath , whereas humans only fill one-eighth of lung volume on an average breath .
2 PV the number of pages per volume for paper and microfilm up to a maximum of 9999 , in this format :
3 LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain .
4 LONGER THAN the longest dusty trail , The Mekons ' history stretches back to punk rock primitivism and back up to date with C&W-flavoured pop that has gained them a pant-moistening popularity with the critics Stateside and a curiosity corner popularity in Britain .
5 Rub through sieve , pour into sugar syrup and make up to 1.15 litres ( 2 pints ) with extra water .
6 According to the newspaper , the organisation has ‘ cut its budget by $9 million , is to sell the biggest of its seven ships and make up to 25 per cent of its 500 campaigners redundant ’ .
7 Falling donations have forced Greenpeace International to cut its 1993 budget from $36 million to $27 million , sell the largest of its seven ships , and make up to a quarter of its 500 campaigners redundant .
8 It is a typical Karajan project because in one respect it is enormously sophisticated — the technology is elaborate , expensive , and bang up to date — and in another it is very simple , inasmuch as its ultimate aim is nothing more or less than the lucid presentation of the music .
9 Stir in the cream gradually and bring up to bubbling again .
10 Stir in the cream gradually and bring up to bubbling again .
11 If I do not believe that caves hold the key to the future in ecology and evolution , I am certainly grateful that David Culver and his fellow biospeleologists continue to descend into those dangerous caves and bring up to the light so many biological discoveries .
12 Pour over the dry cider and water and bring up to the boil .
13 And pave right over to the gate there so you , so that you can get either car out one one car and bring up to the back of here and the other two across there .
14 It had been better , a long time ago it had been better , when their loving had made Frank , and better up to the time of Adam 's birth .
15 sorting out and then I 've got to go down to that conference and fly up to Stone Haven
16 I 'll take a shorter run up and build up to it gradually .
17 These tracks are also extendible and can be purchased in two diameters , 25mm ( 1in ) and 35mm ( 1 ⅜in ) and span up to 609cm ( 20ft ) although some of the narrower types only span up to 381 cm ( 12ft 6in ) .
18 She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention .
19 Place fingertips on the larynx whilst you hum and feel the tingling on your lips , and count up to ten or say a simple phrase in your loudest voice and at the same time concentrate on the feeling on the finger tips .
20 Colour baths are a diluted form of permanent colour and cover up to 50% grey , but the more grey you have the more noticeable the regrowth will be .
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22 We 'll visit the Jewish quarter , count statues of Saints on the famous Charles Bridge and walk up to the Presidential Palace area , stopping to see the wax figurine of the infant Jesus and to rest in the lovely gardens .
23 From here follow a very soggy but level path to Angle Tarn ( 1.5 miles ) in an impressive glacial corrie , and walk up to Ore Gap ( southwards 0.5 miles ) — the high passway between Bowfell and Esk Pike .
24 After two days on the bus from Darjeeling to Yoksam , we were glad to stretch our legs and walk up to Dubtek , Sikkim 's oldest monastery .
25 Porosities average between 14–20% and range up to 28% .
26 Basic belts start at £45 and range up to £120 for wider creations .
27 As part of the campaign bidding to reverse the decision and stop up to 140 truckloads a day using roads to Teesside , a 7,033-name petition urging Government action will be presented to the Commons today by Richmond MP William Hague .
28 It should be noted before going any further that for a sample survey to be of any value at all the sampling procedure must be open to scrutiny and stand up to criticism .
29 There appear to be four main Soviet categories for Latin American regimes : ( i ) ‘ revolutionary democratic ’ states or ( a label rarely applied ) states of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , such as post-1979 Nicaragua and 1979–83 Grenada ; ( ii ) capitalist , yet ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ anti-imperialist regimes which are willing to be friendly to the Soviet Union and stand up to the United States , such as Mexico and panama ( particularly under General Omar Torrijos ( 1969–81 ) , who negotiated a treaty with the Carter administration providing for complete Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal by 1999 , a campaign that was strongly supported by Moscow ) .
30 I mean , this lot did come in , only six months ago , announcing that everyone would have to stand on their own feet and not be rescued , and face up to competition , and all that .
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