Example sentences of "[vb pp] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least 33 shows have been cancelled and the music hall will be boarded up for good within three months , Palladium officials said . |
| 2 | The adviser can only hope that if the client was put at her ease while at the bureau then she may come back for further help when that issue could be picked up for suitable referral . |
| 3 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 4 | However , since we are keyed up for decisive physical action this is still the best way of working it off . |
| 5 | To some extent , each pattern seems to have grown up for extraneous , though important , reasons to do with institutional or occupational history and student circumstances . |
| 6 | In short , therefore , by 1939 pressure had built up for certain strategic solutions to the problems of London and the big cities . |
| 7 | Once a shape has been generated , however , it can be plotted at any position and in any orientation or size so a library of shapes can be built up for repeated use . |
| 8 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 9 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 10 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 11 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 12 | Such group-frequency correlations have been extensively developed for organic compounds , and similar correlations can be drawn up for inorganic species [ 19 ] . |
| 13 | By the same token contracts drawn up for Italian fresco painters during the Renaissance commonly stipulated the use of ultramarine containing powdered lapis lazuli for the Virgin 's cloak . |
| 14 | Horoscopes were also extremely popular and frequently drawn up for Protestant clergy and laity ; even Queen Elizabeth , the head of the English church , consulted her astrologer before deciding on a date for her coronation . |
| 15 | All noblemen over the age of 15 were to register for service and proceed through the fourteen grades of a carefully constructed Table of Ranks ( 1722 ) drawn up for military , civil , and court service . |
| 16 | Follow-up questions , particularly into critical areas , were drawn up for intensive two-day visits . |
| 17 | Planned maintenance means that routine servicing and overhaul arrangements are scheduled in advance and contingency plans drawn up for unexpected breakdowns . |
| 18 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 19 | The funding up by 14pc on this year will enable 495 acres of derelict land to be cleaned up for industrial , commercial , housing and leisure development . |
| 20 | And Labour has friends in the advertising industry who will try to spot advertising space being bought up for fake corporate campaigns by pro-Tory companies for May or June . |
| 21 | The schemes they have dreamed up for art-related asset-manipulation are being imitated throughout the world , notably in Europe and Japan . |
| 22 | Thereafter it should be opened up for general discussion . |
| 23 | It was not only other ancient literature that was opened up for new understanding by the Renaissance : the Bible too began to be read with new eyes , eyes no longer focused simply by the authoritative teaching of the church . |
| 24 | WELLINGTON ( AFP , AP ) — Three New Zealanders and an American given up for dead were found alive yesterday after drifting for four months on an upturned trimaran in the south Pacific . |
| 25 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 26 | I 'm given up for dead by now , I 'm accepted for dead . |
| 27 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 28 | Aberdeen went ahead towards the end of the first half after Duncan Shearer chased a ball to the byeline that some would have given up for dead , and made the cross from which Mixu Paatelainen bundled the ball over the line . |
| 29 | They must never be broken up for short-term gain . |
| 30 | Also the larger tablets can be broken up for small fish . |