Example sentences of "[v-ing] up for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 2 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 3 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 4 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 5 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 6 | Customers signing up for the Electronic Interchange With Standard Edifact , EIWSE , service will receive their electronic phone billing into either the electronic mailbox or , if they have X400 service , directly into their computers , Raes said . |
| 7 | But these two were n't dressing up for the great outdoors . |
| 8 | He made his Palace debut on Boxing Day , teaming up for the first time with Dickie Dowsett and Ronnie Allen , and helped the Palace romp to a thrilling 3–0 victory over Millwall on a freezing surface . |
| 9 | Before lining up for the first race of the season it 's off to the now-standard bits-and-bobs shop , where you can spend up to $100,000 upgrading your jalopy . |
| 10 | The artistic reason is that he is old-hat ; Catalans prefer to be known for the airy constructions that are going up for the Olympic Games . |
| 11 | Stepping up for the pre-fight weigh-in at a solid 144 pages , it comes across as a black , grainy , militant meltdown of Premiere , Rolling Stone , Spin , The Source and Details . |
| 12 | Limbering up for the big event — Lord Mayor Treloar College assistant bursar Derek Graham ( left ) and teacher John Etherington . |
| 13 | Limbering up for the big race , are |
| 14 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ Jed said , speaking up for the first time , ‘ at least there were n't any tolling bells in it . ’ |
| 16 | And there was poor Fred , speaking up for the reviled council block in which he , unlike any of the others , lived : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad , it 's a lot of it exaggeration , ’ he interposed mildly , as Steve repeated the time-worn allegation that it was n't safe to walk under the deck walkways for fear of having a television set or an old mattress chucked on your head : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad at all . ’ |
| 17 | He 's something he 's , he 's , he 's some , something to do with er with er , with the area and erm , and he 's coming up for the high week group some time in the next , little while , and I said to him you were the group 's |
| 18 | MacDonald 's hostess Angela Donalis from the city 's Lord Street premises is stocking up for the huge demand which is expected this weekend . |
| 19 | Almost a million new jobs have come to the state since 1990 , many in pharmaceuticals and electronics , making up for the 1,000 jobs a month which have been lost in mature heavy industries . |
| 20 | Even the best performers sometimes get a tickle in their throats — Jose Carreras warming up for the first night of the Sudeley Summer Festival . |
| 21 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 22 | " For people who take a sober view of life , " he said , " a person is liberal who is prepared not to take thought for his personal interests but to expend all his energy on standing up for the juridical independence of every citizen and the freedom of every action which does not undermine the well-being and the tranquillity of society " . |
| 23 | Though not normally noted for their philanthropy , lawyers say they are standing up for the common man and woman by condemning the Scottish Office plans to change civil legal aid and to a lesser extent legal advice and assistance . |
| 24 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |