Example sentences of "add up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The waitress added up the modest sum , and then asked them regretfully if they were leaving the district for good .
2 It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country .
3 Add up the total employment in public services in 1981 , that is , the last three categories .
4 Add up the total employment in all the transport and distributive industries , the top six categories .
5 You add up the total marks given to your players , divide by x — then roll a dice that number of times and take the highest number rolled …
6 Add up the resulting products to find
7 b ) Add up the three angles of each triangle and compare your answers .
8 c ) Add up the three angles of the four other triangles you have drawn in this exercise .
9 The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted .
10 In fact , adding up the various amounts , the social welfare gain is the shaded area FQLK in total .
11 In adding up the total output of the United Kingdom , for instance , there is no single physical unit of measurement that can be used : the millions of different types of goods and services are all measured in different units — for example , steel is measured in tonnes and cloth is measured in metres and it is , of course , impossible to add tonnes to metres .
12 The simplest method of calculating the price index for 1985 is to find the total of the unit prices charged in 1984 ( by adding up the three prices for that year ) and the total of the unit prices charged in 1985 and then to express the latter as a percentage of the former .
13 If it is a loss of earnings the court has only to ascertain and add up the net earnings lost , and if it is loss caused by out-of-pocket expenditure the court has only to ascertain and add up the total expenditure .
14 If it is a loss of earnings the court has only to ascertain and add up the net earnings lost , and if it is loss caused by out-of-pocket expenditure the court has only to ascertain and add up the total expenditure .
15 Quite apart from idiosyncratic spellings , lack of punctuation , inconsistent use of capital letters and a widespread inability to add up the total valuation , one is confronted with archaic and dialect words .
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