Example sentences of "up [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 2 | These ideas proposed that the tail was asymmetrical , with a larger lower lobe and , when in use , tended to drive the head up to compensate for a heavy head shield and a lack of paired fins . |
| 3 | The couple told stunned housing officials that the three-bedroom flat simply was not up to scratch for their needs . |
| 4 | But does it come up to scratch for educational value ? |
| 5 | Are you getting all this up to scratch for ninety three ? |
| 6 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 7 | It was no surprise when he was signed up to play for Somerset on a three-year contract after only his first tour of England . |
| 8 | That arrangement meant Brian McClair and Gary McAllister turned up to play for Scotland in something less than prime condition . |
| 9 | So does that add up to conflict for the pubs ; healthy drinking verses healthy profit ? |
| 10 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 11 | Petruchio 's servants , speaking prose among themselves , go up to verse for the entry of their master returning with his bride ( Taming of the Shrew , IV.i.120 ) , as do Valentine and Viola on the entry of their master , Orsino ( Twelfth Night , I.iv.9 ) . |
| 12 | Pandarus , who had instructed Troilus — ‘ You must be witty ’ — seems to have infected the lovers with his fondness for dirty jokes ( in him , perhaps , a sign of impotence or disease ) , and seeing him again they are reminded of this and go up to verse for their protestations of love and fidelity ( 113ff . ) . |
| 13 | Midfielder Willie Falconer is lined up to deputise for Phillips , who was sent off for violent conduct against Southend United . |
| 14 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 15 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 16 | Would that it were as easy as sticking your hand up to vote for it Because I have to say that I see no evidence since that motion approving the management initiative was passed of Labour and Liberal members doing any more than paying lip service . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've come to collect my car , but I just could n't drive off without first coming up to apologise for my behaviour last night . ’ |
| 18 | Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast . |
| 19 | SIXTY seven schools are squaring up to compete for £8,000 prize-money in The Northern Echo Schools Cricket Championships . |
| 20 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |
| 21 | Mr John Dyer , chairman of the Barlow Clowes Investors ' Group , which was set up to fight for compensation , said : ‘ I really think investors ought to be deeply grateful . |
| 22 | WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER AS THE PRETENDERS LINE UP TO FIGHT FOR IBM 's CROWN |
| 23 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 24 | During the battle with Sauron 's warriors the Dead Host sail up to fight for Aragorn . |
| 25 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 26 | Michels mentioned that Novell was using SCO 's training program to get their LAN VARs up to speed for USL-Novell joint venture Univel 's forthcoming UnixWare program . |
| 27 | If electric , do the elements lift up to allow for thorough cleaning ? |
| 28 | ‘ All Bonanza has to do now is stay out of sight until a good tale is dreamed up to account for two of his boys getting mixed up in this thing last night , and a few unimpeachable witnesses to make the tale stick , and we all go back where we started . ’ |
| 29 | However , a string of Sunday newspapers lined up to call for Mr Birt to go . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm going up to change for dinner . |