Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] up for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE biggest individual guaranteed cash prize ever offered in North West fishing is up for grabs in Saturday 's Octoplus Echo Spring Classic final . |
| 2 | But now Beattie and her husband Wilfred are about to retire , and the pub 's up for sale . |
| 3 | The Hanson stake is up for sale . |
| 4 | A gothic folly built by an eccentric as a museum is up for sale . |
| 5 | THE British-based Brabham team are up for sale because a company run by its owner Joachim Luhti is bankrupt , his lawyer said . |
| 6 | This is the process whereby every scrap of green land in a town is up for grabs by development . |
| 7 | That site was up for sale but there was no takers . |
| 8 | Anyway , Theo 's fellowship is up for renewal any day now , and he ai n't going to get it . |
| 9 | A nineteenth century health spa is up for sale . |
| 10 | Art is up for grabs . ’ |
| 11 | Shares in the Sheffield Development Corporation were up for sale . |
| 12 | Very appropriate remark , Michael , the charter is up for review at any event , very shortly , because it was on a six-month trial as it were . |
| 13 | The Charter is up for renewal in 1996 , and there are ministers to be lobbied and Conservative backbenchers to be wooed . |
| 14 | Organisers of Britain 's oldest road race , the annual New Year 's Day Morpeth to Newcastle event , will be surprised to discover that the original prize is up for sale at a special sporting memorabilia auction . |
| 15 | Halifax Building Society 's up for sale . |
| 16 | They are born under the ancient Chinese curse , ‘ May you live in an interesting time ’ , a time in which values , lifestyles , relationships , employment are up for grabs , and in which traditional answers to the question ‘ How to live ? ’ are weak and conflicting . |
| 17 | The Hebridean Island of Eigg is up for sale . |
| 18 | If Miss Kyte — if that is not indeed her real name , then the matter is up for dispute at once . ’ |
| 19 | A Victorian mental hospital is up for sale … and could fetch more than two million pounds . |
| 20 | ‘ I owe the show a lot obviously , but my contract is up for renewal in June this year and I will have to think about it seriously then . |
| 21 | er , grass cutting in Borough Council , and I see their contract is up for renewal next year , is about the most disgusting grass cutting you could ever wish to see . |
| 22 | Going for a mere $50m , the Empire State Building is up for sale . |
| 23 | THE famous Ritz hotel is up for grabs for a knock down Pounds 100m . |
| 24 | So you saw the cowboy in the spaghetti western on the cover of the last magazine , well it seems that the only way was up for Steve Perry from Pest Control , Birmingham South . |
| 25 | But although the school was up for sale it 's now been taken off the market and the council does n't believe the scheme is in the best interests of pupils . |
| 26 | I 'm reminded of the story about the time when a British Rail advertising contract was up for grabs . |
| 27 | I believe , in fact , that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers , but merely ladies who can not resist exploring someone else 's house . |
| 28 | And the corner house is up for sale . |
| 29 | After five minutes in Chicago , where every lamp-post is festooned with flyers , where every office is up for grabs , and where every name proclaims the city 's ethnic diversity , a visitor swims in the sheer exuberance . |
| 30 | The house was up for sale- the estate agents say the case has highlighted the need for a change in the law . |