Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] up for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Must be coming up for school dinner-time . ’ |
| 2 | How much land must you commit to arable rotation , and how much must be laid up for hay or silage ? |
| 3 | At the same time another hierarchy might be set up for line management . |
| 4 | The Government with British Coal decided that they would get an independent consultant 's report to study how the mine could be put up for licence — whether under the consortium or under private ownership . |
| 5 | While one country may be geared up for credit cards with hole-in-the wall machines everywhere you look , another may only accept local currency or travellers cheques . |
| 6 | He added that fell walkers and ramblers may be teaming up for weekend excursions into the great outdoors . |
| 7 | But they may be booked up for Christmas day . |
| 8 | A fifth CNAA Committee would be set up for Art and Design , and pending a reconstitution of the Council 's committees and boards in 1975 the present NCDAD members were being asked to serve as a nucleus of the future committee . |
| 9 | A pledge on which a loan of more than ten shillings had been made would be put up for auction , but its owner could come and redeem it on any day up to that of the sale . |
| 10 | Legislation on " small " privatizations , whereby around 100,000 state-owned shops , restaurants and other small businesses would be put up for auction , had been passed on Oct. 25 , 1990 , after a long official debate on its pace and a spate of strikes by shopworkers fearing redundancy . |
| 11 | Companies that were awarded routes might have the right to run services for , say ten years , before their franchise would be put up for sale again , like ITV companies . |
| 12 | When the application period ended ( on June 8 ) an assessment of the results would be made and unsold shares would be put up for sale at a lower price . |
| 13 | A former 56 Squadron example has flown into Woodvale , Merseyside , to replace Meteor T.7 WA591 , which will be put up for disposal . |
| 14 | Machinery will be transferred to other factories for use , and the building will be ‘ moth-balled ’ — to save money on rates , if possible — and will be put up for sale , along with our other vacant properties . |
| 15 | Once stripped of her Seawolf missiles , the 25-year-old vessel will be put up for sale to Third World navies . |
| 16 | No , but he will do the preparatory work and he 's taking photographs now for us , that can be blown up for display purposes and he 's linking with marinas to find equipment so |
| 17 | The provision of copied material is expensive in resources and in time , but can facilitate work for pupils who have problems with distance vision , and a bank of basic material can be built up for future as well as current usage . |
| 18 | You can be had up for blackmail , you know . |