Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 2 | Two hopeful crabs line up for the start of the race . |
| 3 | I said to you you got ta get these Christmas presents wrapped up for the party . |
| 4 | More than 40,000 fans turned up for the 12-hour event , Britain 's biggest-ever legal Rave gig . |
| 5 | Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear after just 1,987 fans turned up for the Coca-Cola match against Bolton |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hoggett 's analysis concerns itself principally with the opportunities opened up for the left by these changes , with more direct contact between service providers and consumers through neighbourhood offices . |
| 8 | More than 100 cars lined up for the start . |
| 9 | A diet which is bizarre or extreme may bring about weight loss if strictly adhered to but , as the brain draws on its reserves to make up for the deficiency in vital nutrients , the dieter is likely to become edgy , easily upset and to experience difficulty in making decisions . |
| 10 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 11 | Contestants line up for the quiz . |
| 12 | More innovatively , companies signing up for the programme will be legally committed to going through a conciliation process to sort out unforeseen interoperability problems . |
| 13 | Here he could live in virtually complete seclusion , at a fraction of the cost it would take in northern Europe or Canada ; where the people were unconcerned as to who you were or what you did ; and where breathtaking vistas opened up for the seeing — both external and internal . |
| 14 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Academy has developed some links with foreign companies to make up for the cash shortfall ; most notably , it has recently sold software to analyse gas distribution in pipelines to Ruhrgas in Germany . |
| 17 | Legal contracts drawn up for the appeal also guarantee that all the money , which now stands at £270,000 , must be spent on the unit . |
| 18 | Artists team up for the Roosevelt memorial |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was n't only the seeds of oats ; the cornfields usually contained quantities of weeds like chickweed , spurrey and charlock and it was on all these that the skylarks , twite and rock doves fattened up for the coming winter . |
| 21 | In no sense could they be said to be members of industrial co-operatives : that is , of organisations set up for the manufacture of goods or the provision of services and wholly , or very largely , owned and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
| 22 | When he leaves here , he faces four tournaments — Antwerp , Toulouse , Paris and Wembley — in five weeks to tune up for the Masters on 27 November . |
| 23 | Boats pulled up for the deceptive winter , the restless thud of the sea beyond the outer wall threatening to break into their sanctuary . |
| 24 | Ski equipment importers had big stocks of last year 's skis and boots still on their hands and ski shops were desperately running sales and searching for other sports to make up for the fact that no one was buying skigear . |
| 25 | Did the bright lights make up for the lack of country life ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Twenty-six teams turned up for the sporting events which included bowls , mixed netball , darts , 5-a-side football and the ever popular It's-a-Knockout and Superstars events . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Film scripts specified free-spirited nymphets in mini-skirts , and there were younger actresses with more malleable identities queuing up for the parts . |
| 30 | At lunch hours things get busy as customers queue up for the small range of soft pasta dishes and such daily specials as vegetable lasagne or a spicy Italian-sausage casserole — all moderately priced and consistently good . |