Example sentences of "[vb pp] up for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Grass-roots workers recognise the problems being stored up for the general election . |
| 32 | A whole pig is served up for the main New Year feast , and bean curd , sausages and special wine are prepared . |
| 33 | Furthermore , he contests , costs at the company have gone up for the simple reason that it has moved into different areas of activity — IBM simply made the mistake of trying to be ‘ all things to all people ’ , and so will never be able to return to the profit levels of the mid-1980s . |
| 34 | As in the past , a collection is to be taken up for the Ecclesiastical Students Fund , and this will take the place of the regular second collection . |
| 35 | It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version . |
| 36 | It claims over 1,000 ISVs have already signed up for the new version . |
| 37 | Eddie Owen has signed up for the 1991 season with the Japanese and will sail aboard the 50-footer Will at the Key West and Miami 50ft regattas as tactician for Terry Neilson . |
| 38 | More than 120 people have signed up for the six courses and a regular programme of similar events is now likely to be organised at the Wivenhoe Park campus , near Colchester . |
| 39 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 40 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 41 | Not one student has signed up for the ten weekly lectures under the title Margaret Thatcher — Fact Or Fiction . |
| 42 | Several big names have already signed up for the massive complex which will house 68 shops when it opens in August . |
| 43 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 44 | The transformations complete , all six readers were lined up for the final photograph . |
| 45 | Events lined up for the next few weeks include Indian dancer Bisakha Sarker performing as part of a Verbal Images event , a European Youth Dance Night , The Cholmondleys and V-Tol Dance Company . |
| 46 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 47 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 48 | His voice was muffled in serge , dressed up for the Arctic in cap and muffler . |
| 49 | ‘ My rent is paid up for the next six months , ’ Caro had assured her airily , ‘ before I knew I was leaving . |