Example sentences of "which [vb mod] be [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distinctive ‘ rattle ’ at the end of the tail is formed from modified scales and increases in size by one rattle section every time the snake moults its skin , which may be up to four times a year . |
| 2 | In Amazonia , taxonomically diverse groups of angiosperms grow on the carton nests of ants , forming arboreal ‘ antgardens ’ , which may be up to 1 metre across and 2 m long . |
| 3 | This will equal half the cost of the factory , which should be up to full production of body panels by the end of next year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be though to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |
| 6 | Such caverns are available in Kent , Wiltshire , Cleveland , Humberside and Lincolnshire , The UKAEA 's report proposes that special trains with 10–12 wagons , each loaded with flasks containing drums of waste will travel on public railways between the Sellafield reprocessing plant and the waste dumps , which could be up to 400 km away . |
| 7 | The filter further added to the exposure time which could be up to 80 times that of a normal plate . |
| 8 | The filter further added to the exposure time which could be up to 80 times that of a normal plate . |
| 9 | Yet debt owed by customers , which could be up to 40 per cent of their assets , is so often left unprotected . ’ |
| 10 | It was to this latter end that Wilson 's journeyings were largely devoted , while the emphasis of his argument was that acceptance of the union 's position , far from creating a tyranny of trade unionism , would lead to greater discrimination in recruitment and to higher standards of seamanship and greater efficiency which would be greatly to the advantage of the shipowners themselves . |
| 11 | His presence , of course , will make things rather difficult for Canaris which will be all to the good . ’ |
| 12 | On 8 March 1779 he wrote to his ambassador , ‘ We can provide plans which will be sufficiently to the taste of M. de Florida Blanca ’ , and a small planning group , which included the French Minister of War , the Prince de Montbarey , and of Marine , Gabriel de Sartine , was set up . |
| 13 | Slurry is injected into a 20mm ( 0.75in ) wide groove which can be up to 60mm ( 2.3in ) deep , and on all models , the slot is opened by a pair of discs mounted on a flexible arm , a feature which is said to ensure precise depth control . |
| 14 | The suspension , springs and dampers have to be robust to cope with the greater weight of the diesel engine , which can be up to 250lb , and the greater mileage that a diesel might be expected to cover . |
| 15 | In the Indian Ocean fish are caught in gill nets , which can be up to 50 k long , and are made of synthetic fibres . |
| 16 | This is a kind of life and health insurance combined that covers replacement cost through death ( which can be up to £3000 in the case of a horse ) , theft or straying , and the cost of veterinary bills . |
| 17 | The bulbs in this unit actually stop working at the end of their useful lives which can be up to five years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This makes it easier to lose weight in the first few weeks , at a rate which can be up to 4lb per week . |
| 20 | This is made up of a twenty-four-bit field containing the overflow address plus control information , followed by the record key , which can be up to sixty-four characters in length . |
| 21 | Which can be up to ten years , providing that does n't take your service over forty years at the age of sixty or over what you would have attained had you remained in service until the age of sixty five . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This column allows a comment to be provided giving a reason for the rejection , which can be up to 48 printing characters long , including spaces . |
| 25 | The logical or physical name for the storage directory , which can be up to 80 characters long . |
| 26 | The nets , which can be up to 40 miles across , have also been blamed for snaring and killing thousands of sea birds , non-commercial fish and marine mammals . |