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

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1 Kumar has retained his position at St Andrew 's despite the club being put up for sale last month after his business empire went into receivership .
2 BIRMINGHAM CITY manager Terry Cooper yesterday claimed that chairman Samesh Kumar kept him in the dark about the club being put up for sale .
3 The purpose of this chapter is to open up for discussion some of the complex and ambivalent reactions which exist in us all towards old age and old people .
4 British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification .
5 But when a stranger was picked up for house breaking or shop breaking or something , a complete stranger , we used to send them to Norwich pending further enquiries , and with a request that they be fingerprinted , and of course they used to fingerprint , send to Scotland Yard , we used to then get the record if they had a record with a photograph , and all their previous convictions .
6 The club was put up for sale after the Kumar brothers ' business empire went into receivership last month .
7 Simpson is the second player to leave the Manor Ground since the club was put up for sale eleven weeks ago .
8 Two-thirds of AMI Healthcare was put up for auction this week after the company 's Los Angeles parent changed hands .
9 Here are a few indications of the different laws worldwide where a stolen work is put up for sale .
10 If you work in a university , polytechnic , college or school anywhere in the world and your work is held up for lack of funding , the Research Fund may be able to help you .
11 The material for a given vehicle was split up for convenience under various grouped headings .
12 The lease of Headington Hill Hall was put up for sale along with 32 other properties in January by receivers , Grant Thornton , and has attracted several bids .
13 The company 's stay was fairly brief , for in 1908 operations ceased and the mill was put up for auction .
14 His job is lined up for TV commentator Tony Lewis , another ex-England skipper .
15 The business was put up for auction two months ago when Whitbread decided that its spirits operation , including brands such as Long John Scotch , Laphroaig malt whisky , Burrough 's mixed doubles and Beefeater gin , was too small to compete with the giants of the industry like Grand Metropolitan 's IDV , Guinness ' United Distillers and Allied-Lyons ' Hiram Walker Allied Vintners .
16 Most were not considered worth interviewing , but a shortlist was drawn up for interview at the Northern Foods flat in Clarges Street .
17 One microcomputer is set up for word processing and can be used by pupils at any time , another is used as a Prestel terminal and the third is available for the use of a variety of CAL programs .
18 The Ikon Gallery , whose lease is coming up for renewal in February 1993 , is studying the possibility of taking over a Victorian school next to the International Convention Centre .
19 They like it everyone is sort of their trundling around , the library is showing up for lunch .
20 All was safely gathered in and Mr and Mrs Squirrel Nutkin 's hoard was laid up for winter 's sustenance .
21 The governors had effectively decided at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night that Mr Birt should stay but question marks still hung over the future of Mr Hussey , especially as the BBC 's General Advisory Council recommended on Wednesday that he should go for effectively bringing the BBC into disrepute at a time when its charter was coming up for renegotiation .
22 Just as a stylesheet is set up for text so it is possible to create a basic colour palette using either the HLS ( Hue , Lightness , Saturation ) , CMYB ( Cyan , Magenta , Yellow , Black ) or RGB ( Red , Blue , Green ) models .
23 It was confirmed that a separate fund be set up for preservation work .
24 A memorandum was drawn up for presentation to the November 1990 Helsinki ( Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ) conference on the environment .
25 Highway engineers ' schemes for increasing the size of junctions often result in the stone being broken up for hardcore or being tossed unceremoniously aside .
26 These requirements are bound to conflict on your limited acres , particularly in spring and early summer when a large proportion of your land is laid up for hay or in arable crops .
27 Fisons ' horticulture division was put up for sale in April .
28 Bob Hoover 's North American P-51D Old Yeller was put up for action , but with a $1 million reserve Hoover gets to fly it for another year .
29 well he said the house is going up for sale , I think he thinks I 'll be patient in that direction , it 's not that , it 's just that if it was a nice house , a normal house where the kids can play out on a nice day and just hang the washing out , I could be getting on with it
30 Another slice of the Maxwell empire is going up for sale .
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