Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] up " in BNC.

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1 Or maybe blue … they say it may clear up later , but people say that all the time in Scotland .
2 Since one never knows when it may flare up again , there is good reason for watching the area .
3 If there is a fracture it 's possible it may show up more clearly now , in which case I 'm afraid we wo n't have any choice but to put it in plaster .
4 Erm , medium status it may go up to more like five minutes , very high status it may be approaching ten minutes , okay ?
5 Otherwise , if the wind is squally it may end up with the wrong wing down in a fierce cross wind .
6 It may throw up pieces of plasterwork , shellwork and panelling , fragments of windows and evidence of colour schemes .
7 The hardware to perform multiplication requires two n-bit registers to hold the multiplier and multiplicand , and a 2n-bit register to hold the product , since it may have up to ( 2n-1 ) significant bits .
8 Do not expect instant results , especially if the baby has diarrhoea or colic — it may take up to two weeks for the baby 's digestive system to return to normal .
9 It may take up to eight weeks to evaluate your program , so please be patient .
10 In fact , it may take up to a week before your bank actually receives the money .
11 It is considered that after large trees are felled it may take up to I 2 months for the sub-soil to achieve stability .
12 Clearance applications require planning as it may take up to 30 days to obtain clearance .
13 Having corresponded with the member or members concerned , the committee looks at the facts it has obtained and expresses a technical opinion , which it may follow up in various ways .
14 It may fill up very slowly and gradually , particularly where stress is constant , such as when work is over demanding , financial problems ca n't be overcome , or the children are going through a difficult phase .
15 Then I think er it may come up later , Mr Cunnane has identified er an error in the Selby figure , erm but I I do n't wish to change that because that was the the figure that was considered as one .
16 they pay , they pay , they are paying me a little bit , I think it ought to go up in price a bit though myself
17 It 's not mentioned anywhere I think it ought to come up first in Q P9 does n't it ?
18 It seems that the children have been too easily persuaded to sell their land and houses , for what matters in a drama like this is not that the children should act out what actually happened in real life , but that it should open up and help them understand the dilemmas of industrialisation .
19 The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ .
20 But it has never really shown that it has any new ideas about where it should end up .
21 It should clear up .
22 I think it should shoot up .
23 Staying cloudy in most places although a few bright intervals at possible and apart from the odd chance of a light shower it should stay dry milder than of late top temperature eleven celsius fifty two fahrenheit mist and patchy fog will form tonight and drizzle is likely in places too the overnight low eight celsius forty six fahrenheit mist and fog clearing slowly tomorrow a dull start it should brighten up later on though sunny intervals developing the high tomorrow thirteen degrees .
24 Here we shall look at the principles by which various methods of measuring velocity work ; the reader interested in the arrangements of a full working system and the procedures for operating it should follow up the references .
25 Later , at a party conference in Lotoka on April 26 , delegates had decided that it should put up candidates in the elections , but should refuse to take up any seats which it won , to underline the rejection of the racially based Constitution .
26 It should speed up the whole process and save money for companies currently using outside computer services , ’ said , project manager for Management Information Services at Courtaulds Coatings Inc .
27 Gripping and polished — it should clean up at the box office this autumn .
28 ‘ Those who argue that maybe we should just once more try to delay it must face up to the responsibility that they may , by their good intentions , create much more suffering than anything we have seen so far .
29 It must reach up beyond the walls of that particular yard within which a child is brought up .
30 Newtown Coaches , from Reeth Place , Newton Aycliffe , was told by Durham County Council it must give up running the route from Darlington to Bishopton after complaints about the service .
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