Example sentences of "[vb past] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will need a detective , be it a police officer or some individual caught up for good reason in the investigation , who is capable of seeing deeply into people 's characters , of putting himself like Simenon 's Maigret into , not so much other people 's hoes , as into other people 's minds and souls . |
| 2 | Sky fell fast asleep when the bidding came up for Italian football — that 's ironic , since they had shown it so compulsively themselves . |
| 3 | Several of the issues just outlined will be given special attention in our last chapter , which will look at the wider horizons opened up for Protestant theology by the ecumenical movement , the encounter with other faiths , and the development of science . |
| 4 | A MAN turned up for Old Bailey jury service yesterday — and found he was due to try his 20-year-old son for burglary . |
| 5 | SKIPPER Allan Border hit his highest first-class score of the tour as Australia made up for lost time on a rain-hit day against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 6 | Then they escorted us to our rooms , where we gratefully made up for lost sleep . |
| 7 | HOW we could have done with some frogs ' legs among the dire fare served up for national consumption at Stamford Bridge yesterday . |
| 8 | Both reports constitute post hoc analyses of data on several thousand patients followed up for varying periods at regional hypertension clinics . |
| 9 | ORGANISATIONS employing more than 35,000 people signed up for good health at a ceremony in South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 10 | Yet by embarking on these difficult waters we are confronting what religion really is , not a safe cardboard version of it neatly packaged up for general retail . |
| 11 | Many of these woods have been abandoned or grubbed up for agricultural use . |
| 12 | For a while , the most successful pop groups had the power to shift mass consciousness to an unprecedented degree and this confidence expressed itself in a plethora of new sexualities brought into the public eye , offered up for public consumption and then put into practice in people 's lives . |
| 13 | Class sizes are generally larger than PTRs , because not all teachers actually teach ( heads , for instance , spend most of their time on administrative work ) , because marking and preparation duties restrict direct contact hours with pupils , and because sometimes classes are combined or split up for various periods . |
| 14 | There are three main ways you can do this ; you can continue at school , have a home tutor , or attend a special unit or project set up for pregnant school-girls and school-age mothers . |
| 15 | The police Holmes computor system , set up for major crime investigations , is being used to collate information from across Britain . |
| 16 | She told a London press conference that a raft of decisions had been announced and a tight timetable set up for future reforms , designed to prevent the spiral of decline predicted in the report if action were not taken . |
| 17 | A DISABLED Courtaulds employee somewhere in the world will benefit from a fund set up for tragic computer expert . |
| 18 | Is it not time the hon. Gentleman did the job he is paid for and stood up for British sport ? |
| 19 | The phrase " has with him " seems to exclude articles picked up for immediate use . |
| 20 | First , it should he held up for critical inspection , pilloried when necessary . |