Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 2 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 3 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 4 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 5 | The concept of the provings : the way in which the drug pictures are built up for each remedy . |
| 6 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 7 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 8 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 9 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 10 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 11 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 12 | They must never be broken up for short-term gain . |
| 13 | The adviser can only hope that if the client was put at her ease while at the bureau then she may come back for further help when that issue could be picked up for suitable referral . |
| 14 | A resource box can be built up for each history unit . |
| 15 | Once a shape has been generated , however , it can be plotted at any position and in any orientation or size so a library of shapes can be built up for repeated use . |
| 16 | Erm oh well maybe yours can be saved up for another time ? |
| 17 | Thereafter it should be opened up for general discussion . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | This is illustrated in the following drill using Spanish : This type of drill would have to be set up for each person , number , tense and verb class , and be thoroughly drilled in order to gain automatic control of the association of pronoun and verb ending . |
| 20 | A register of licensed auditors is to be set up for each member state . |
| 21 | Separate drills need to be set up for each noun class to learn its associated affixes . |
| 22 | Dettori , who will be warming up for next season in Hong Kong , did not rest on his laurels , steering odds-on Shintillo to a sauntering success in the Something For The Boys Maiden . |
| 23 | It was an impossible arrangement in the circumstances and through their solicitors they agreed that the horse should be put up for public auction , each partner having the right to buy it outright . |
| 24 | Goods coming into the country can be held up for other routine reasons , for example , non-completion of paperwork or the non-payment of tax and excise duties , said Customs . |
| 25 | The Cavaliers and Roundheads have been stocking up for another season , re-enacting the English Civil War . |
| 26 | Also , there are three sites that have been put up for public consultation by the Gipsy Working Party and that 's Rockhill Farm at Chipping Norton , the airfield at Chiltern near Burford , and Standlake . |
| 27 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 28 | When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945 I had just completed my Higher School Certificate in the traditional three subjects , with a year to spare before being called up for National Service . |
| 29 | That caused a shortage , especially of male dancers , which was worsened when others were called up for military service during the war . |
| 30 | Many Tamils fear they are being softened up for another assault on Jaffna . |