Example sentences of "add [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Just add the 7 nights ‘ add on to the 7 or 14 night price of your chosen hotel or apartment .
2 Together , our proposals add up to a co-ordinated programme for recovery .
3 Where fantasy is involved , as in a film like The Wizard of Oz ( 1940 ) , non-realistic , simple colours are acceptable , provided they add up to a coherent scheme that works within the special world of that film .
4 These incidents scarcely add up to a coherent narrative , and the chronology is uncertain .
5 The figures which I have given , I hope , add up to a total for new accommodation of seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds .
6 The different combinations of colour , beautiful designs , textures , fibres and weaves all add up to a vast range of fabrics from which to choose and at enormously varying prices .
7 Informative , revealing , funny , they add up to a comprehensive picture of a momentous year .
8 They are nevertheless honest enough to praise the good points of the car but are unable to concede that these points add up to a first-class package .
9 Plus that they add up to a hundred and eighty .
10 Well that 's so you can work out , erm , if you if you look at any two numbers they add up to a hundred and eighty ,
11 Add up to a hundred and eighty degrees .
12 Add up to a hundred and eighty degrees .
13 Cos these are these three add up to a hundred and eighty .
14 These three add up to a hundred and eighty .
15 AN INSATIABLE appetite for squid plus an ageing workforce add up to a full order book for a Japanese manufacturer of computerised fishing equipment .
16 Acceptable collocational patterns and grammatical structures can only enhance the readability of individual sentences , but they do not in themselves ensure that sentences and paragraphs add up to a readable or coherent text .
17 These constraints lead decision-makers to deviate considerably from the comprehensive rationality model , but in six ways which add up to a positive theory of decision-making .
18 A Whether they come in through the letterbox , under the door or around the windows , draughts all add up to a large heating bill .
19 Media reports have acquainted everyone with the notion that rocketing prison populations , overcrowding , unrest among staff and inmates , and especially prison riots ( such as those at Strangeways prison in Manchester and at over 20 other prisons in April 1990 ) add up to a severe and deepening penal crisis .
20 Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed .
21 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 .
22 The changes , therefore , add up to a different kind of economic system .
23 They are all " Act and Scene " operas — their librettos organised along familiar lines , those analogous to the partitioning of dramatic action usual on the non-musical stage , where soliloquy , dialogue , ensemble , and purely mimed material add up to a whole dramatic structure .
24 The throat-constricting landscapes , the classical-statue cinematography , the orchestrated flesh-mangling , and the fly-blown soundtrack add up to a unique and hugely influential whole .
25 That the written statement and its publication add up to a true Dostoevsky confession , to repentance and acceptance of suffering , to ‘ a wonderful podvig ’ in Tikhon 's words , is one possibility among many .
26 To what extent these isolated scenes of rural India add up to a true picture of the situation across the country is difficult to say .
27 Did the industrial militants in the car industry and the docks , the union leaders disaffected by incomes policy and the council tenants by the local state apparatus , the left intellectuals in the universities , add up to a social bloc capable of achieving sweeping changes in Britain 's insertion within international economic relations and the relations of production in the domestic economy , even if the Labour leadership had wished to lead such a movement ?
28 ‘ The separate elements of the database add up to the essential spatial framework , in a co-ordinated and computerized format , for carrying out academic , commercial and policy-oriented studies in one of Europe 's fastest growing regions ’ ( Shepherd and Conway , 1988 , p. 14 ) .
29 It is our individual decisions about how we travel , work , eat , heat our homes , wash our clothes ' , take our holidays and go about our daily lives that add up to the growing pressures on our planet .
30 All these advantages , in a Plan affording so much cover at so little cost , add up to an outstanding — and exclusive — insurance that should n't be missed !
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