Example sentences of "[verb] up [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 2 | Over 100 members turned up to compete for the honour of representing Limerick Area in the National Finals in Belfast . |
| 3 | Around the harbour , fishermen 's tavernas still jostle side by side with the newer cafés and bars which have sprung up to cater for the younger market , and the main daytime activity seems to be relaxing over a quiet glass of something while watching the boats chug in and out . |
| 4 | This part of the city lacks the individual character of Robyn 's own suburb , where healthfood stores and sportswear boutiques and alternative bookshops have sprung up to cater for the students and liberal-minded yuppies who live there ; and still more does it lack the green amenities of the residential streets around the University . |
| 5 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 6 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 7 | Rabobank NV and Amsterdam-based Getronics NV have teamed up to bid for the second Dutch Groupe Speciale Mobile digital cellular licence . |
| 8 | Petruchio 's servants , speaking prose among themselves , go up to verse for the entry of their master returning with his bride ( Taming of the Shrew , IV.i.120 ) , as do Valentine and Viola on the entry of their master , Orsino ( Twelfth Night , I.iv.9 ) . |
| 9 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 10 | So does that add up to conflict for the pubs ; healthy drinking verses healthy profit ? |
| 11 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 12 | The building society grapevine is buzzing with rumours of foreign predators queuing up to bid for a large British society . |
| 13 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |
| 14 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 15 | He often worked in a friend 's studio , and took his meals at Rosalie 's where he peeled potatoes or washed up to pay for the meals . |