Example sentences of "up to [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 However , Bogyoke went up to Panglong and discovered that the more shrewd and realistic Frontier leaders had grasped that a new political situation was emerging .
2 It is up to builders and developers to examine registers and seek out the owners to make an offer for any sale in which they are interested .
3 A hundred and fifty tenant farmers and pro-hunting demonstrators turned up to Hereford and Worcester County Hall to hear the debate .
4 Customers of DEC 's Berkeley System Distribution-based Ultrix Unix , which features on its doomed Mips Technologies Inc hardware line will be migrated up to Alpha and OSF/1 1.2 .
5 Individual parcels , except if addressed to Jersey , can weigh up to 30kg and measure up to 1.5m in length , and 3m in length and girth combined .
6 Many countries will accept parcels up to 30kg and 1.5m long .
7 Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing .
8 Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing .
9 The common warthog weighs up to 110kg and has black or white bristles on grey skin and splendid facial warts .
10 Jane is an abductee , someone who believes they have been forcibly abducted by aliens , spirited up to spaceships and physically experimented on in various alarming ways ( rectal probing , artificial insemination , induced premature births ) .
11 So , like so many in Irish rugby , he welcomes the arrival of the Irish Exiles project which aims at enrolling the large number of those with Irish qualifications who live in England , Scotland and Wales , and up to year or so ago were almost totally ignored in Ireland .
12 Can we talk about job description , because I am not clear about those , I mean to the end of the audit , I , I rang up to day and asked about whether the , who should be signing them .
13 It is up to government and industry , as well as those with resources in land and money , to make a concerted effort to secure our country 's wealth and heritage for the future .
14 Telnet/OLTP is claimed to provide significant gains in transaction processing efficiency by decreasing central computer processing by up to 50% and by decreasing Telnet traffic on the network by up to 90% — and existing Telnet applications are compatible with Telnet/OLTP .
15 He demonstrated that pervasive ( or non-seam ) solution compaction may result in considerable reductions in thickness ( commonly up to 50% and more , rarely as much as 80% ) of finely crystalline carbonate units .
16 Resiting the aquarium to a warm living room will cut this cost by anything up to 50% because the heater will only operate briefly and it is that which is the main user of power .
17 Jean-Claude must have told M. Chaillot that , because of a bereavement , he was not up to contracts and their clauses , and discussions relating to money .
18 One woman went up to Codron and Peter Wood and said just one short crisp sentence .
19 Half-way down the great boulevard a fakir shouted up to Dara that previously he had always been generous to the poor ; but now he understood that Dara had nothing to give .
20 Seeing his opportunity , Khalil Ullah Khan rode up to Dara and advised him to dismount from his war elephant and ride over to take charge of the wavering left wing .
21 SMCC also cut prices on Sparcstation 10 models 41 , 52 and 54 by up to 21% and up to 25% on the model 30 , which is now $14,000 .
22 Sun also cut prices on Sparcstation 10 models 41 , 52 and 54 by up to 21% and up to 25% on the model 30 , which now costs $14,000 .
23 There are flashing units for flashing up to abutments or , if desired , these can be reversed to run into gutters .
24 Garvin had been brought up to hunting and shooting , skills which in the opinion of the Consul-General exactly equipped a young man for a career in the Ministry of the Interior .
25 Bennett said : ‘ The food provided on Thursday was not up to standard so we decided to provide our own .
26 All hotels now have to satisfy a local fire officer that their precautions are up to standard before they can do business .
27 G. says he thinks the man is lying , that the vat went over not by accident but because the ice cream was not up to standard and pouring it away was the most convenient way of getting rid of it .
28 ‘ If they 're up to standard and I like them , I 'll use them — simple as that . ’
29 Some of the returns from Taylor 's questionnaire 216 drew attention to these problems , one in particular reporting that another year of full-time work would be required to bring the thesis work up to standard and up to date .
30 Some of the returns from Taylor 's questionnaire drew attention to these problems , one in particular reporting that another year of full-time work would be required to bring the thesis work up to standard and up to date .
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