Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [modal v] [be] [adv prt] to " in BNC.

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1 Judging from the photograph , Joseph Noel Paton 's Crimean War weepie ‘ Home ’ is one of the very few narrative pictures which might be up to the standard of this ideal exhibition .
2 The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years .
3 Over six days there 'll be up to 150,000 shots … scattering more than four tons of lead pellets .
4 A government clearly that is split both politically and is totally incompetent the government 's majority is now down to eighteen and all the predictions are that within a few weeks it will be down to seventeen .
5 Two very different types of plant are the giant redwood trees which can be up to or exceeding 100 metres in height and one celled algae in water .
6 Most obvious were the southern giant petrels : huge , dark brown birds , some with paler heads , and resembling an outsize fulmar , they glide ceaselessly to and fro along the waterfront on wings which can be up to two metres across .
7 Ti'Ko claim that this significantly increases graphics handling speeds which can be up to 18 times faster than the conventional 486 super VGA configuration .
8 In Open events there can be up to 36 fences — a combination of natural hazards such as water , rails and ditches of up to four feet six inches high ; hedges of up to six feet high and specially built fences like steps and tyres .
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