Example sentences of "up to [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nintendo Co does plan to use satellites for delivery of computer games : the company says it plans to broadcast a game via satellite in Japan , and owners of its game computers that buy a decoder and adaptor — for about $85 — will be able to pick the thing up ; Nintendo also plans a national competition for high scorers in satellite games ; meantime Nintendo of America is poised for its largest launch of a video game ever this week in a bid to best Sega Enterprises Ltd — it plans to spend up to $15m in a month-long promotion of Star Fox , a science fiction action game inspired by Star Trek and Star Wars that uses its new Super FX technology , which includes a RISC embedded in the $60 games cartridge ; it claims to have 1m advance orders for it . |
| 2 | The range consists of 17 items with prices starting from £1 for a guest soap up to £9.95 for a pair of luxury coathangers . |
| 3 | I had just passed my RAF selection and went up to Soho with a couple of mates to celebrate . |
| 4 | The Law Society 's Remuneration Certificate service should remain free of charge , but the Society will have a power to require up to 50% of a bill to be paid by the client before the certificate is granted . |
| 5 | Agree that the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 be amended to provide that the Society may require up to 50% of a client 's profit costs all disbursements and VAT to be paid during the process of application for a Remuneration Certificate , in accordance with guidelines to be issued by the Adjudication and Appeals Committee after consultation with the Lord Chancellor . |
| 6 | The triangular holes would match up to teeth on a key , of a similar design to that shown in Pic 2 . |
| 7 | Prices start from £1.95 for a peeler up to £11.45 for a cook 's knife . |
| 8 | Lured by stories of pickers making up to $1,000 in a single day , unemployed loggers , SouthEast Asian immigrants and garden-variety opportunists have all rushed in . |
| 9 | Early estimates for council tax bills range from a bottom level of £301 for a house worth less than £40,000 up to £903 for a house valued at more than £320,000 . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're going up to hospitality for a while . |
| 11 | A dismissed employee who makes a successful claim is eligible for a tax-free cash sum by way of compensation up to £4560 on a basic award and up to £8000 on a compensatory award . |
| 12 | Bill gave up his job of 20 years as a tea taster and blender , exchanging the daily ‘ trundling up to London in a bowler hat for driving about 1,000 miles each week looking for antiques with Angela ’ . |
| 13 | I was just coming up to Scotland for a holiday . |
| 14 | On one occasion she planned to fly up to Scotland for a meeting about the children 's work . |
| 15 | However , I understand that , the other day , an English acrobat 's son came up to Scotland for a few hours and said that the whole thing was non-negotiable . |
| 16 | Yeah , you could pop up to Scotland for a few days . |
| 17 | I have done hardly any work , except keep this Diary up to date for a week , which is something of a record for me ! |
| 18 | Yeah no he was just saying that head office they 'll dictate to them like anybody else so he said I 've got to have erm the mortgage up to date for a start before I can consider anything . |
| 19 | Traditionally , online systems have delivered information that may well be kept up to date on a regular and frequent basis but is still essentially a record of what has already taken place , an accumulation of historical information . |
| 20 | But Sisson , in addition to bringing his story up to date with a final chapter , interjects halfway through a lengthy segment on his war . |
| 21 | There is no need to become a slave to it , provided you plan ahead and keep up to date with a number of essential tasks . |
| 22 | The story has been brought up to date with a challenging final chapter by Professor Lance Lanyon , Principal of the College . |
| 23 | To fulfil her role properly , she must have time to prepare sessions and keep up to date with a wide range of subjects . |
| 24 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 25 | Nearly fifty years ago Peggy Lucas walked out across an airfield to fly a Spitfire for the first time … now she 's about to come bang up to date with a helicopter . |
| 26 | As the title of this present show suggests , there are works from those early student days with a leavening from his period of teaching in between and now brought up to date with a batch of more recent work . |
| 27 | Romanticism was brought up to date in a different way by the Scottish painter Joan Eardley ( 1921–63 ) , whose paintings and drawings are at the Mercury Gallery , 26 Cork Street , London W1 ( until May 9 ) . |
| 28 | I bring it up to date in a solemn |
| 29 | Four activities , in , matter : the way in which teaching and learning are conducted , keeping up to date in a subject , applying a new technology and managing the sequence of review , improvement and change . |
| 30 | And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all , and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some for , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version . |