Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This may dredge up long-buried , uncomfortable emotions about his own childhood . |
| 3 | Even the simplest VAT eats up 2–4% of its revenues in administrative costs ; the BTU tax may eat up as much as 10–20% , turning it into a full-employment programme for bureaucrats . |
| 4 | Big , old-established unions may lend up to £5,000 or even more ( the legal maximum is £10,000 ) , but smaller unions may have a limit of a few hundred , and a new member may only get £100 . |
| 5 | The commission has no criterion , because it can have no criterion , to decide which prices ought to go up and by how much , or vice versa . |
| 6 | ‘ You ought to go up . ’ |
| 7 | I think perhaps we ought to go up now and hope the weather 's better in the morning . ’ |
| 8 | they pay , they pay , they are paying me a little bit , I think it ought to go up in price a bit though myself |
| 9 | Yeah , probably if you want me to get that old mower going I ought to go up to Woods and see if I can get a new drive belt . |
| 10 | And as we come out I said to Rudy I feel we ought to go up and see if Wendy 's alright , cos she was a bit upset at quarter to twelve . |
| 11 | So I said , ‘ Let's knock up a quick vocal and let's knock up Keith 's guitar , ’ and he just banged up a solo very quickly and it was great . ’ |
| 12 | So I said , ‘ Let's knock up a quick vocal and let's knock up Keith 's guitar , ’ and he just banged up a solo very quickly and it was great . ’ |
| 13 | It may throw up pieces of plasterwork , shellwork and panelling , fragments of windows and evidence of colour schemes . |
| 14 | The analysis stage may throw up numerous conclusions that you feel are fit for managers who await the report . |
| 15 | What is not so clear is whether the Principles have anticipated ail types of problem which the technology may throw up . |
| 16 | Block loans through the public library service will have an important part to play , and it will be advantageous to both sides if the teachers have provided a detailed breakdown of likely sub-themes and activities for the library staff to use ( although their own examination of stock may throw up additional possibilities which could be suggested ) . |
| 17 | For people with long-standing difficult social circumstances that may throw up a crisis at any time , intervention might best combine practical help with a scheme to foster the person 's sense of control over his or her life , to reduce their sense of hopelessness . |
| 18 | In possibly solving a problem in relation to stamp duty or SDRT the arrangement may throw up problems in other areas : ( 1 ) Section 89(4) of CA 1985 ( statutory pre-emption rights ) provides that the statutory pre-emption rights do not apply to a particular allotment of equity shares if these are , or are to be , wholly or partly paid up otherwise than in cash . |
| 19 | Where a panel is composed of just two people a direct rivalry may spring up about who is in charge . |
| 20 | If the project 's a success , similar constructions may spring up elsewhere in the country . |
| 21 | Banks in Cannigione are as accessible as those in an English country town , so bring enough Lire to survive the weekend and any public holidays that may spring up . |
| 22 | We must draw careful lessons from it — about the necessity for collective action and for creating new institutions in Europe to deal with the new conflicts that may spring up in our continent . |
| 23 | He was also sure that I ought to mug up as much as I could about Italy . |
| 24 | Let's make up . ’ |
| 25 | there are so many to think , obviously , at some point that they may cover up so again , that 's where it 's designed the |
| 26 | We have seen how millions of fossils may make up the rocks themselves , crammed together layer after layer to form formations thousands of feet thick . |
| 27 | Apart from the three subjects intensively taught , pupils may make up their timetables with scraps of non-examined , and therefore non-serious , odds and ends . |
| 28 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 29 | More of one may make up for less of another in some circumstances . |
| 30 | Ants , which may make up to half of the animal biomass in some habitats , are not always involved in such an apparently one-sided relationship with plants , as we have seen in the case of the myrmecophytic epiphytes . |