Example sentences of "up [noun] for a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main aims of the workshop are to stimulate the production of media education textbooks and resources for the African context , to equip more people , especially women , as trainers , and to draw up plans for a media education programme in southern and eastern Africa , starting in 1992 . |
| 2 | On June 7 , the government named a committee of experts which would draw up proposals for a draft constitution on the basis of previous constitutions and the report of the National Commission of Democracy , which advocated an executive president and a national assembly , both to be elected on the basis of universal suffrage , an independent judiciary and guarantees of human rights . |
| 3 | FIRST-TIME buyers are queueing to snap up homes for a £1 down-payment . |
| 4 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 5 | A punter at Pontefract races collected £24,843 for a 10p investment while another customer at a Tote betting shop in Paddington picked up £12,421 for a 5p outlay . |
| 6 | Looking up charges for a cricket net or a tennis court per hour yielded high success rates ( around 80 per cent for each of the bottom two bands and around 90 per cent for the top band ) . |