Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] up for [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Along with cash in hand , and the rent being paid up for a month , that should be travelling money enough .
2 Finally , the field of comparative religion is opened up for the students in the study of the faiths of the modern world .
3 A whole pig is served up for the main New Year feast , and bean curd , sausages and special wine are prepared .
4 ‘ My rent is paid up for the next six months , ’ Caro had assured her airily , ‘ before I knew I was leaving .
5 At the annual Radcliffe lecture in Oxford , Dyson pointed out that eight tonnes of oxygen are used up for every three tonnes of coal or oil burned .
6 With no back-up flap system the aeroplane is set up for a slightly flatter flapless approach at 130 knots .
7 A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service .
8 The residency was set up for the Oxfordshire Area Health Authority by the City Gallery Arts Trust
9 Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more .
10 When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room .
11 Proper planning was held up for a time until the route of the M4 was decided , as an early outline brought it through Harpsden and over Peppard .
12 Crilly has tidied the flat , and my bed is made up for a queen with extra duvets and fluffy pillows .
13 Schemes of the same kind were drawn up for the forests of Chute , Pickering and Knaresborough , and in the soke of Somersham within the forest of Huntingdon , which the Attorney-General reported ‘ had not been in use for a long time past .
14 For Lacan notes how it is only when the infant encounters itself in a ‘ mirroring ’ image that a form is set up for the face and body ; the mirror provides a perceptual gestalt ‘ ideal ’ form , which does not reflect a reality since it differs from the subject 's fragmentary experience .
15 Otherwise , chopsticks are practical for one-handed eating , if the food is cut up for the patient .
16 Thus the property was tied up for a generation .
17 A disaster fund was set up for the widows and orphans and they were reasonably well provided for financially , although the sums they received seem very small by today 's standards of compensation and value of money .
18 Out of the 25 patients discharged from the hospital 21 treated by endoscopy and two treated with surgery were followed up for a mean of 28.3 and 22.5 months , respectively .
19 That a similar system be set up for the archival negative collections which would be rehoused within the proposed new photographic suite .
20 One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’
21 A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer .
22 By such a mechanism , in which family ties played an important part , a relatively rapid ascent was opened up for the younger sons of the prosperous Catalan farmers who must leave the farm to the chosen heir ( the hereu ) ; within a generation a man could make a modest fortune , exposed to the risk of loss as well as the hope of gain .
23 And also any alterations or recommendations for the national agreement the case was put up for the delegates .
24 The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis .
25 There has been reference in the Selby area for the likelihood that land initially allocated for industry will in fact be taken up for a supermarket .
26 The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic .
27 Over lunch at the Roof Gardens , an agreement was drawn up for the purchase of Powell 's share in Virgin , giving him one million pounds , the Scala cinema and the video-editing suites .
  Next page