Example sentences of "up for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oh , and he signed up for accountancy of course .
2 A POWERFUL RIG SIMPLY SET UP FOR PERFORMANCE WITH IDEAS FROM THE RACING CIRCUIT MATCHED WITH A DOUBLE LUFF GENOA REEFING SYSTEM .
3 This is the first of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki 's films to open here , but not the last : two more are lining up for release in the next six months .
4 Of the second wave of Irish films gearing up for release , only one has not been made by a British director .
5 ‘ Well , ’ said Helen , ‘ I do know a girl who works in the outer office there , and we do sometimes meet up for lunch and I could try to put her on to it …
6 When you 're clearing up for lunch look out the window it 's the enclosed garden .
7 Oh Sunday it was really bad cos he had these people turn up for lunch and erm , said it 's Sam arranged to come and collect him quarter to six and then we went up to Fore Gate for lunch and then we came back here and had erm we were all standing in the kitchen here , knock on the door , a walked in , I 'd completely forgotten about it
8 They like it everyone is sort of their trundling around , the library is showing up for lunch .
9 I decided that the artwork would be painted in pieces ; the backgrounds on a single sheet and the rest in sections the same size with the artwork for close up details painted twice up for reduction .
10 Gave it up for ordination training at Salisbury .
11 Miranda reads up for tinsel town trip
12 They think you 're fattening the company up for slaughter … what exactly are you planning for Chester 's , Guy ? ’
13 Receptor molecules spit out their neurotransmitters once they have served their purpose , and the cell whence they came mops them up for reuse .
14 The follow up for morbidity of gastric cancer shows increased risks in the years after starting cimetidine treatment .
15 Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope .
16 Germans have stood up for freedom .
17 United 's other young star , Chrissie Allen raced down the left and set things up for goal number 4 .
18 Further growth of the market is anticipated , perhaps by 30pc again next year , and many of the big players are gearing up for expansion .
19 A purist could argue that it was class and function that set these store owners up for assault , but on the streets , in the full fury of those 48 hours , stretching from the mid-afternoon Wednesday verdict in Simi Valley , any Korean would have been fair game .
20 ‘ At Mike Mahoney 's down in Marsh Street they were laying odds on thee having been cut up for cats-meat . ’
21 Such a rejection of state and vanguard party with its accompanied space opened up for pluralism and difference is of potential significance for left political culture today .
22 Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism .
23 Was up for re-election in May this year , nineteen ninety two .
24 One third of the councillors in each of three consecutive years are up for re-election .
25 That is , just as a county council in eighty five , all the councillors are up for re-election just as in a parliamentary general election , yeah ?
26 It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years .
27 At each two-yearly election one-third of the Senate comes up for re-election .
28 No surprises were anticipated from the meeting , at which all directors were up for re-election .
29 Some will be up for re-election in two years .
30 Cairns Underwater Camera Centre ( CUCC ) is geared up for photography , with a full processing lab onshore .
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