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

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1 He never intended that his shares should be given up for no payment .
2 Environmental commissioner Ioannis Paleokrassas announced that a special committee had been set up to carry out impact assessments on the application of regional and structural funds , and that a timetable would be drawn up for the implementation of the " Fifth Action programme for the environment " — a legislative framework for the future .
3 However , the recommendations of its members have indicated that the way will be opened up for the abandonment of most restrictions .
4 At a frank meeting with the above , at which this community 's concerns were forcefully put , it was agreed that work would halt during our community festival and that the area would be cleaned up for the festival .
5 ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’
6 One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’
7 let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives .
8 Whoever wrote the lyrics to that should be locked up for an affront to the English language .
9 My father had recruited three young gypsies who had not been and could not be called up for the Navy .
10 The latest speakers to be firmed up for the conference are David Pascall , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , who will speak at the general assembly session on The New Generation — A Strategy for Reading , and Simon Lang of the Henley Centre for Forecasting , who will be a speaker at the general assembly on The Future of the Book .
11 The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus .
12 And he stressed it was unlikely an ‘ entire pattern of stability ’ could be set up for every operation .
13 Last season a referee allowed himself to be wired up for a League match at The Den to record some of the things he had to put up with from players .
14 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 .
15 The usual collection is to be taken up for the Communications work of the Church .
16 For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night .
17 Hirst may well be fired up for the job against Manchester United , whose £3.5 million bid by fax was turned down amid some acrimony last month by Wednesday manager Trevor Francis .
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