Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 2 | COMPUTER scientists and entrepreneurs are worried that delays by the British government in responding to the Alvey report on advanced information technology may be harming Britain 's chances of joining an elite of computerised nations lining up for the 1990s . |
| 3 | More innovatively , companies signing up for the programme will be legally committed to going through a conciliation process to sort out unforeseen interoperability problems . |
| 4 | As a former Cabinet minister , George Younger is entitled to ennoblement in the Dissolution Honours , but with 10 fellow Conservatives queuing up for the Lords John Major may decide that Younger should be the one to miss out . |
| 5 | He spent 1990 watching his paymasters demolish the investment bank that he had spent the previous seven years building up for the Pru 's assault on Wall Street . |
| 6 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 7 | This year I have my mummy and my daddy coming up for a couple of days and that will be fine |
| 8 | Customers signing up for the Electronic Interchange With Standard Edifact , EIWSE , service will receive their electronic phone billing into either the electronic mailbox or , if they have X400 service , directly into their computers , Raes said . |
| 9 | Gliders lining up for a competition launch |
| 10 | After that , a top executive tends to get stale , in Pearce 's opinion , because ‘ you 're seeing the same problems coming up for the second , third or even fourth time and you begin to think you 've done it all before . |
| 11 | Film scripts specified free-spirited nymphets in mini-skirts , and there were younger actresses with more malleable identities queuing up for the parts . |
| 12 | We are led inexorably towards Kingsley and Redford squaring up for a mental duel between software equals , one barmily convinced that He Who Has The Database Rules The World and the other on the side of human compassion which ca n't be reduced to byte-size chunks . |
| 13 | Barry Jones boiled over when he saw 63-year-old Vera brewing up for a local hospice on her day off . |
| 14 | Crowds waited outside the venue to catch a glimpse of pop stars turning up for the awards ceremony , being televised on ITV by Carlton tonight . |
| 15 | There were at least two world champions lining up for the start and many seasoned and experienced drivers . |
| 16 | Frank was mentioned as one of the players lining up for the attacker spot — but Olsen chose Mjelde from our local league — top scorer this year in Norway — for the reserve spot after Fjortoft . |
| 17 | Some obviously saw the events in Spain as fascism limbering up for an even greater conflict ; Spain was seen as an experimental laboratory for the arms , equipment and strategy of the fascist powers . |
| 18 | Even the best performers sometimes get a tickle in their throats — Jose Carreras warming up for the first night of the Sudeley Summer Festival . |
| 19 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |
| 20 | Belfast limbering up for a fitness challenge hat-trick |
| 21 | Barbel 's the only woman among thirty competitors lining up for the start in Geneva this weekend . |
| 22 | A very important time coming up for the club , some very important games , no more important to people in this area than the game at Swindon on Tuesday night , But then away to Middlesborough , home to West Ham , still something to play for for Oxford United this season if the results keep going their way ? |