Example sentences of "up to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They simplified the house , knocking down walls , adding bathrooms , and opening it up to the cool summer breezes from the sea . |
| 2 | The four-and-a-half gallons of oil take about ten minutes to warm up to the minimum 40°C , and we used the time to taxi around the sheltered bay within Calshot Split , checking for debris and driftwood and surveying the area . |
| 3 | provide a general education for those who do not go to grammar schools , usually up to the minimum school leaving age ( though pupils can stay on longer ) . |
| 4 | Britain prefers absolute standards , which would exclude all products that failed to come up to the minimum acceptable level . |
| 5 | The pre-filming budget had gone up to the then astronomical sixteen million dollars with Tyrone Power cast in the lead . |
| 6 | Coal and Power called for an integrated and rationalized scheme for power , a follow up to the Liberal Manifesto of 1923 which suggested that coal and power supplies should be placed under the control of a public board presided over by a minister . |
| 7 | This may be caused by the use of different techniques , for example , continuous rectal filling with a certain infusion rate up to the maximal tolerable volume . |
| 8 | For example , it may be that admitting pupils up to the standard number would mean the school taking in more than it can accommodate by virtue of the Education ( School Premises ) Regulations 1981 . |
| 9 | Extrinsic feedback is provided by the teacher in the form of information about the success or failure of the practice to match up to the standard performance . |
| 10 | Similarly , those unemployed claimants drawing income support have found that their benefit , up to the standard rate of unemployment benefit , is liable to taxation . |
| 11 | To bring the site up to the standard necessary for the positioning of bottle and paper banks would entail greater expenditure . |
| 12 | The most obvious of these was that if fonts were to be provided with any application , it was better if they could be shared by others , and the Typographics fonts supplied with early versions were , if not exactly grotty , not up to the standard users would expect of , say , TrueType or ATM fonts . |
| 13 | To bring the site up to the standard necessary for the positioning of bottle and paper banks would entail greater expenditure . |
| 14 | None of Doherty 's publications lasted very long , but they were an important part of the general ferment of radical ideas in the years leading up to the Chartist movement . |
| 15 | Was n't it time to put aside her fears and insecurities and give herself up to the heady delight of love and passion ? |
| 16 | In a project , this could perhaps involve examining texts such as the different accounts of the events leading up to the Norman Conquest by Anglo-Saxon and Norman contemporary writers . |
| 17 | And although Lucy made a valiant effort to control her quickening breath , the mad thumping of her heart and the heated excitement rising within her , it was a losing battle — and at last she gave herself up to the rapturous bliss of the moment . |
| 18 | Many other rural mills of similar size went out of business in the face of competition from the larger steam-powered urban mills , but Lower Framilode Mill managed to survive up to the mid 1940s . |
| 19 | ROI as a percentage is in the low teens for market share below 30 per cent and up to the mid to high thirties for market shares above 80 per cent . |
| 20 | It is clear that UDCs will sustain a lead in urban policy up to the mid 1990s , yet knowledge of the operations , delivery , and outcomes of UDC policy and strategy is limited . |
| 21 | Up to the mid eighteenth century , foreign holdings , predominantly Dutch , amounted to around a fifth of the debt . |
| 22 | They stood in two rows , hooked up to the static lines , weighed down with parachutes and air tanks , waterproofed combat kits , clutching personal inflatable rafts attached with five metres of line to their belts , eyes tense behind the vizors of the face masks . |
| 23 | WAR CLOUDS OVER EUROPE read the banner headlines at the opening of Reed 's earlier film , Bank Holiday ( 1938 ) , a picture whose setting suggests escapism but whose narrative argues for the need to face up to the dark side of life in order to find meaningful happiness . |
| 24 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 25 | Where subsidiary or associated undertakings are disposed of during the year , their results are to be included up to the effective date of disposal . |
| 26 | The results of companies acquired or disposed of in the year are dealt with from or up to the effective date of acquisition or disposal respectively . |
| 27 | As a result , their efforts were diverted more towards devising non-custodial alternatives than facing up to the intractable problems of institutional confinement . |
| 28 | But the steady drip of disclosures , which appears certain to continue right up to the general election later this year , could yet prove fatal to the Congress ( I ) Party 's chances of remaining in power . |
| 29 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 30 | Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support . |