Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 2 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 3 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 4 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 5 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 6 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 7 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 8 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 9 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 10 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 11 | Instead of being demolished , the unused reactors will be locked up for 35 years . |
| 12 | The organisation will consist of executive and advisory boards and ad hoc committees and task forces will be set up for specific projects . |
| 13 | He suffered a jaw broken in two places which had to be wired up for five weeks . |
| 14 | Tory MPs protested the measures may be held up for two years because of delays on the Bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 15 | It is for this reason that patients are followed up for two years after treatment . |
| 16 | The 24 patients in this group with an abnormal naevus pattern have been followed up for 178 person-years . |
| 17 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 18 | For that very reason , the Government are standing up for British businesses and British services in Brussels as we want more jobs , not fewer . |
| 19 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 20 | Mhm that 's right yes some of the women were locked up for fifteen years . |
| 21 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 22 | ‘ Management development programme being set up for all departments and supervisory training for clerical and manual staff ’ … |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Patients were followed up for six months with ultrasound and assessment of symptoms . |
| 25 | 1455 children entered the Health Study and were followed up for 1185 child-years ( 596 vitamin A group , 589 placebo group ) . |
| 26 | The treatment intervals before radiotherapy are given for the patients who were followed up for three months or more while undergoing laser treatment . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |