Example sentences of "up to [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 2 | The blastoids ( class Blastoidea ) had compact cups up to a few centimetres long , with five broad food grooves running down the sides ( lacking crinoid arms ) . |
| 3 | Tyrone , up to a few hundred feet of reddish sandstones occur above a basal conglomerate , and are succeeded by a thin development of argillaceous dolomite , the Upper Permian Magnesian Limestone . |
| 4 | A prototype module of the barrier , known by the apt acronym M.O.S.E. , was in position for tests up to a few months ago . |
| 5 | The effect takes more than 10ms to develop and can last for up to a few seconds . |
| 6 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 7 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 8 | The control Store , containing up to a few thousand words , is set up initially with bit patterns representing the microprograms for the instruction set to be implemented . |
| 9 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
| 10 | The number of strings which the algorithm keeps may range up to a few thousand , and each bit string may be a few hundred long . |
| 11 | On moderately dry ground , for example along the coast of Antarctica , unsorted polygons are convex shapes in the ground up to a few metres across , ringed by a network of furrows that mark the positions of persistent cracks ( Figure 3.8 ) . |
| 12 | Actually , the family lived at Trebyan up to a few months before I was born , then they moved next door to be near the shop . ’ |
| 13 | After all , up to a few hours ago , he never knew of my existence . ’ |
| 14 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 15 | Pitcairn seamount lavas have O isotope ratios up to a few parts per million higher than the mantle value , which leads to the virtually inescapable conclusion that they contain a component that was once at the surface of the Earth . |
| 16 | For these reasons it is seldom used for current measurement nowadays but it does find application in a modified form of operation that enables electrical power to be measured in both direct and alternating-current circuits at frequencies up to a few hundred hertz . |
| 17 | Along with the mingling of the genres go the other stylistic features of a rather modish postmodernism : pastiche ; montage ; paraphrase ; parody ; allusion ; quotation ; often adding up to no more than a cultivated divertissement . |
| 18 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 19 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 20 | Britishers , de Kruif told Lewis , did not get their science and their dollars mixed up to the same extent as Americans . |
| 21 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 22 | Divide mixture between tins , so that it comes up to the same level in both . |
| 23 | On a smaller , 65cm ( 25½ in ) parachute the shrouds can be 90cm ( 36in ) , and for a 2 metre ( 78in ) ‘ chute , up to the same dimensions , 2m or 78in . |
| 24 | Tolkien wanted his characters in The Lord of the Rings to live up to the same high standard . |
| 25 | Our choice would be a former IBMer who has carved out a successful career running another computer company — Comdisco Inc chief Ken Pontikes is already facing up to the same problems besetting IBM , and despite his protestations , there 's always Ross Perot . |
| 26 | This reviewer is a long-time fan of Mr Greer 's superb aviation art in the Squadron Signal series over many years ; sadly , his figure work is not up to the same very high standard . |
| 27 | And er what I see of the modern teacher I 'm probably looking out with three different eyes , they do n't seem to come up to the same standing as those men were , at all because one thing that I I remember very vividly about them all , and they were family men , what I call family men . |
| 28 | ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems . |
| 29 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 30 | The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century . |