Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alarmed by inner-city tensions in reaction to mass immigration from the Commonwealth , in June 1955 the Home Secretary asked Sir Anthony Eden to set up a committee of inquiry , to drum up support for immigration controls . |
| 2 | In an effort to produce a short form the JCT has not included specific provisions for many common situations , such as the need to open up work for inspection , or loss and expense suffered by the contractors due to default by the employer and supervising officer . |
| 3 | So the writing and the record making process are inseparable in a way , but the way I work certainly seems to open up possibilities for discovery . ’ |
| 4 | We also agreed to set up systems for audit ( box 2 ) . |
| 5 | From 1 April they will be able to set up contracts for community health services such as district nursing and chiropody , and possibly this might be extended to social aspects of community care . |
| 6 | Its essential purpose is to set up standards for computing which reflect the users ' requirements rather than manufacturers ' convenience . |
| 7 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 8 | I have not only politically united the German people , but also militarily rearmed them , and I have further attempted to tear up page for page that Treaty , which contained in its 448 articles the most base violations ever accorded to nations and human beings . |
| 9 | ‘ No murky ending ’ is what President George Bush promised the US public in a nationally televised speech on November 29 , 1990 to whip up support for operation ‘ Desert Shield ’ ( later renamed ‘ Operation Desert Storm ’ ) , Washington 's latest Middle East military adventure . |
| 10 | Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine has taken no action against 56 of the 79 English waste disposal authorities which have failed to fulfil their legal obligation of 10 years ' standing to draw up plans for waste disposal . |
| 11 | The consultation , which was sponsored by Intermedia and WACC 's Asia Region , brought together 25 communicators from North America and Asia to discuss issues of communication and justice and to draw up plans for action for the future ( see reports on pages 1 and 4 of Action number 159 ) . |
| 12 | To give up reason for revelation , he argued , is ‘ like putting out one 's eyes in order to look through a telescope ’ . |
| 13 | I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done . |
| 14 | I will do , not that I feel the gavel-bashing toastmaster was in order by repeatedly calling for ‘ gentlemen ’ to cough up money for raffle tickets . |