Example sentences of "can [vb infin] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lone parents can earn up to £15 a week before their income support is reduced . |
| 2 | If you do take a paid job , bear in mind that although you can earn up to a certain amount per week without affecting your state pension your wages will also be subject to income tax . |
| 3 | If you draw your pension , you can earn up to a certain amount a week without affecting it . |
| 4 | Top goalkeepers can earn up to £50,000-a-year from manufacturers for wearing their gear , including built-in bonuses for Cup runs and television appearances . |
| 5 | Tough action by police and customs in Britain and on the continent has smashed some of the biggest illicit labs , which can earn up to £250,000 a day . |
| 6 | It can plot up to 45,000 colour coded stars , show the motion of the Sun , Moon and all the planets . |
| 7 | JVC 's disc plant near Tokyo can make up to 300 000 discs a month . |
| 8 | They can make up to 141 foraging trips a day , comparing favourably with commercial honey bees , which can manage 150 . |
| 9 | This natural gas , formed from uranium and radium , seeps out of the ground — in Cornwall it actually comes through the granite — and can build up to cancer-inducing levels if measures are not taken to deal with it properly . |
| 10 | When someone or something stops them from getting their own way , their frustration can build up to explosion point . |
| 11 | There is also an enhanced UNDO function in which you can re-trace up to 63 steps . |
| 12 | The thing that made it attractive to Paneth and Peters , and years later to Pons , Fleischmann and Jones , was its great affinity for hydrogen — it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of the gas . |
| 13 | Those future profits include grants that he might have received from the government for installing drains ( these can cover up to 80 per cent of the cost of the scheme ) and the value of anticipated production , which may be doubled by subsidies under the EEC 's Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 14 | In tundra habitats , it has been shown that lemmings can eat up to 50 per cent of available vegetation and destroy a lot more during peak years , and as a result of lack of food the rate of decline of lemming populations can be as rapid as the rate of increase ( Batzli , 1975 ) . |
| 15 | Adult elephants spend three quarters of the day feeding and can eat up to 225 kilos of food a day . |
| 16 | So far as ants are concerned , a single pangolin can eat up to 73 million of them , or termites , in 1 year , while ant eaters on Barro Colorado Island attack termite and Azteca ant nests ; of arboreal nests , 91% of the termite ones and 37% of Azteca nests are attacked each year . |
| 17 | Tourists can stay up to a maximum of 90 days in theory but longer is possible by showing a confirmed return air ticket . |
| 18 | Bulldozers were used to clear 1.6 million ha for Gmelina arborea ( Verbenaceae ) , which can yield up to 30 m 3 per ha per annum , but the best stands yielded only 14 t , the scheme overall only 3–6 t . |
| 19 | The programs can include up to six basic effects , although three double up : chorus/flanger , distortion/overdrive and pitch/delay ( the delay does have separate parameter settings , however ) . |
| 20 | ICL plc is hoping to pick up the baton and ‘ bring parallel processing into the mainstream ’ sometime in 1994 with the release of a relational database engine for commercial transaction processing that can scale up to 256 superscalar Sparc RISC chips . |
| 21 | The short wheelbase model can tow up to 2,300kg , and the longer version can pull as much as 2,580kg . |
| 22 | At the centre , dispatchers keep track of taxis on monitor screens , which can display up to five cabs per pole . |
| 23 | There is a new VIDC 20 video controller , which can display up to 16m colours , and a new ARM 700 series of the CPU is now under development . |
| 24 | This option can accommodate package structures up to 20 levels deep , and the scrolled area can display up to 20 package names . |
| 25 | A giant plant than can recycle up to one hundred thousand tonnes of rubbish every year . |
| 26 | The decoy can catch up to 1400 birds in a season . |
| 27 | A predator company ( the offerer ) can buy up to 15 per cent of a company 's shares without restrictions , but above that level must then wait seven days before being allowed to buy up to another ten per cent . |
| 28 | Who can count up to ten ? |
| 29 | You will meet another mother down the road , whose child is not yet three but knows the letters of the alphabet and can count up to 100 . |
| 30 | Why , I 've been told you can count up to fifty or sixty , on a good day . ’ |