Example sentences of "[conj] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1990 there were twenty-eight million cardholders , mostly ‘ Barclaycards ’ and ‘ Access ’ cards , owned by the Midland , Lloyds , National Westminster and the Royal Bank of Scotland ( recently renamed ‘ Signet ’ and up for sale ) , but since a Monopolies and Mergers Commission investigation in 1989 , there are a whole lot more . |
| 2 | Off came the flying jacket and up for sale went the £200,000 aircraft . |
| 3 | They came out of the forest into an emptiness where the Undersea currents seemed to drift on and on and up and up for ever . |
| 4 | Prices have gone up and up for as long as Texas can remember . |
| 5 | And up for sale , the mental hospital that once described as a human zoo . |
| 6 | The names of Eaux-Bonnes 's hotels still have the old pompous ring to them , the Hôtel d'Orient et d'Espagne , the Hôtel Richelieu , the Hôtel tea Princes ( the ‘ dearest ’ in a ‘ very wealthy little modern town ’ in Hilaire Belloc 's day , but up for sale and miserably vandalized the last time I saw it , in the mid-1980s ) , but their clients are not what they once were . |
| 7 | John Hayes , secretary general of the Law Society , said he regarded the entire matter as up for debate . |
| 8 | Atco Qualcast , signalled as up for sale by BCI some two years ago , without takers , has been restructured at BCI 's expense by the very team now taking it over . |