Example sentences of "up [verb] for [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers . |
| 2 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 3 | Petruchio 's servants , speaking prose among themselves , go up to verse for the entry of their master returning with his bride ( Taming of the Shrew , IV.i.120 ) , as do Valentine and Viola on the entry of their master , Orsino ( Twelfth Night , I.iv.9 ) . |
| 4 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 5 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 6 | Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast . |
| 7 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |
| 8 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 9 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |