Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] up for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What an admission to make after 12 years of Conservative government that our economy is uniquely incapable of being signed up for participation in a single currency . |
| 2 | Their South Molton cottage ( guide price £44,000-£46,000 ) is one of more than 20 lots to be put up for sale at the Barnstaple auction by Bristol and West Property Services , and one of more than a hundred which the building society subsidiary will be auctioning in eight West Country venues over a three-day period . |
| 3 | On the way , they stopped at a farmhouse that was about to be put up for sale . |
| 4 | Both share stakes are expected to be put up for sale over the next few months if the Hafnia merger goes ahead , and could allow a large French company to buy a key stake in the Nordic market . |
| 5 | The auction will also see the first work by Antonio Lopez Garcia to be put up for sale in London or New York and his ‘ Ataud ’ of 1957 is estimated at £180–250,000 ( $315–440,000 ) . |
| 6 | Several petrochemical plants owned by the armed forces were also to be put up for sale . |
| 7 | A FIRE station is to be put up for sale , a council report has revealed . |
| 8 | Should the person in charge of the chart see any item that was likely to fall behind , he pinned a flag at this particular point , and if the article was likely to be held up for want of raw material a blue flag was pinned up ; but if this delay was due to one or other of the works departments getting behind with the manufacture , a red flag with a numeral upon it was used , which indicated the shop or department . |
| 9 | It would perhaps be unusual for expulsion to follow as a matter of course under this head without some discussion with the invalid to see whether other arrangements might be made and the real object of including this as a ground for expulsion is to remove doubt on all sides as to when such delicate matters are liable to be brought up for discussion in the context of early retirement . |