Example sentences of "[noun sg] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're trying to make a dictionary up for everyday language , that everybody uses . |
| 2 | When the company was trying to stimulate confidence amongst its backers , Nimslo proudly claimed that it had ‘ received ’ nearly £3 million in government grants to tool up for British production at the Timex factory in Dundee . |
| 3 | Whereas his beard was so clearly a compensation , a making up for unachieved virility , Gyggle 's beard was positively rampant , priapic . |
| 4 | Most of this linguistic investigation however is carried out at the semantic level , with emphasis on lexical fields , componential analysis , which Nash often employs as a start up for humorous argumentation , and agent shift . |
| 5 | The Cabinet Reshuffle : Healthy leg up for golden Virginia |