add up to something

Examples of adding

adding

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Our own compendium takes these into account, adding several revisions and new identifications.
Some advocates of reform stressed the desirability of adding new subjects to the curriculum, including modern sciences.
This is of no theoretical interest and could be cured, for instance, by adding a warning feature drawing attention to skipped words.
The developmental literature points to at least 6 levels of empathy emerging in succession, each expanding and adding to the repertoire of empathic potential.
Traversal is performed by selecting a node from the task pool, visiting that node, and then adding its successor nodes to the pool.
Effect modification by age category and season was statistically tested by adding this variable and its first-order interaction term to the final model.
But even when we have such information of partial effects, we confront the difficulty of adding up all partial effects.
A possible method is to build individual rules by incrementally adding rule conditions until some type of class purity criteria is met.
However, adding terms to the search strategy to improve sensitivity would probably lower precision.
Here, the hypothesis-testing process must be applied iteratively by adding dimensions until the correct number is found.
In contrast, an older contract specified the use of particular technologies that have subsequently constrained the product design, adding costs and delays to the programme.
But it has yet to be directly demonstrated whether adding extrinsic reinforcers increases intrinsic motivation, interpreted as resistance to change.
Adding more lags would reduce the power of the test significantly.
Most of the care-givers reported a combination of the two types of care, and adding managerial care to hands-on care significantly increased the time requirement.
One pooled sample failed to give a positive signal, possibly due to the failure of not adding a microfilaria to the sample.
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