Example sentences of "up for [art] [noun] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
3 | They looked into one another 's eyes , and kissed with a great tenderness , as though they had to make up for the anger last time . |
4 | PREMIER John Major and his bungling sidekick Norman Lamont were shown up for the joke double act they are yesterday . |
5 | Lending the lie to the sceptics that saw no hope of NeXT Computer Inc winning any significant licensees for its object-oriented NeXTstep environment now that the company has abandoned its hardware side , the company yesterday announced that three blue chip names , Hewlett-Packard Co , Dell Computer Corp and Data General Corp had signed up for the NeXTstep 486 version . |
6 | Sir Michael was the only person prepared to comment as 50 invited guests , including governors , top BBC management and close colleagues of Sir Michael , turned up for the dinner last night . |