Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The higher risk prisoners are locked up for longer . |
| 2 | The concept of the provings : the way in which the drug pictures are built up for each remedy . |
| 3 | The 21,906 children who entered the Survival Study were followed up for 33,287 child-years ( 16,508 vitamin A group , 16,779 placebo group ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Management development programme being set up for all departments and supervisory training for clerical and manual staff ’ … |
| 5 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 6 | My rent is paid up for six months . |
| 7 | Everything here at the college is geared up for those with no sight , or very little , which really does help because it prepares you for University training really , where they are n't geared up for you . |
| 8 | The combined heat and power industry was held up for many years because it was in the hands of a state monopoly . |
| 9 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 10 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 11 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |
| 12 | Is it not time for an initiative to make local authorities hand over their property to housing associations , and could regional ombudsman be set up for that purpose ? |
| 13 | It is for this reason that patients are followed up for two years after treatment . |
| 14 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 15 | Fifty patients with healed ulcers were followed up for one year . |
| 16 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 17 | The follow up varied from 41 to 180 days , and because the trial was stopped only 48% of the patients were followed up for six months . |
| 18 | Patients were followed up for six months with ultrasound and assessment of symptoms . |
| 19 | In the remaining 21 patients H pylori was not eradicated ( group 2 ) and these patients were followed up for 12–54 months ( median 24 months ) . |
| 20 | Matty and Chris 's return flight is held up for seven hours . |
| 21 | Despite a 150-strong police presence , traffic was held up for two hours as the farmers taunted Britons , shouting and waving banners which read ‘ Britain is an island . |
| 22 | When this happened the traffic was held up for three of four days whilst the track was repaired . |
| 23 | Then the subway train was held up for twenty minutes . |
| 24 | If these payments are kept up for five years and are used to buy a home , the Ministry of Defence will add £1 tax-free for every £3 saved . |
| 25 | For that very reason , the Government are standing up for British businesses and British services in Brussels as we want more jobs , not fewer . |
| 26 | And Labour has friends in the advertising industry who will try to spot advertising space being bought up for fake corporate campaigns by pro-Tory companies for May or June . |
| 27 | RUUD Gullit is gearing up for next week 's European Cup final with Marseille with many Milan fans believing it will one of his last games for the Italian giants . |
| 28 | It was a relief when , at 21 , Stan was called up for National Service . |
| 29 | In one randomised controlled trial of radical surgery 111 of 142 patients with cancer confined to the prostate were followed up for 15 years . |
| 30 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |