Example sentences of "[to-vb] up for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 2 | At the election he stood as the architect 's architect , pledged to stand up for quality of design . |
| 3 | This is the second unimpeachable Rembrandt painting to come up for sale in London this season , the first having been his ‘ Daniel and Cyrus before the idol of Bel ’ . |
| 4 | The government announced on Aug. 20 that it was planning to open up for exploration by foreign oil companies areas that had hitherto been reserved for Indian state-owned companies . |
| 5 | The old lads had hoped to warm up for Hull with a friendly against Cleveland police the previous week , but most of the constabulary failed to turn up . |
| 6 | He shook hands with scores of clerks , cooks and cleaners who had overcome feelings of revulsion and fear to turn up for work after the brutal and ghastly murder of their friend and colleague , who had been chained to a 1,000lb bomb . |
| 7 | You 're the , you 're the driver and you 've got to get up for work in the morning and everything else . |
| 8 | Keith has to get up for school in the morning , but he 's not thinking about that at the minute . |
| 9 | The younger ones had simpler jobs , like delivering copies of the War Cry to corps members who had failed to show up for service on Sunday . |
| 10 | In Tokyo , MITI , the Japanese ministry for trade and industry , indicated that it would not approve attempts by Japanese manufacturers to make up for shortfalls in US exports to Europe . |
| 11 | The workers , members of the International Association of Machinists , are taking advantage of the boom to try to make up for years of contract concessions and stagnant income . |
| 12 | Bundespost Telekom says that operating profit in 1992 fell 4.6% to the equivalent of $4,157m ; after Telekom has made its required subvention to the federal government and its two loss-making sister units , it will be left with nothing to add to reserves — it is required by law to transfer 10 pct of its annual turnover to the federal government and to make up for losses at the Postdienst mail service and Postbank postal banking unit , Reuter notes . |
| 13 | To make up for losses by retirals , resignations and transfers some more recruits joined in the 1950s including M. Armstrong , A. Davies , A. L. Harris , M. F. Howells , F. May and D. I. Smith . |
| 14 | Textiles were excluded and there was no significant increases in the sugar quota to make up for cuts in recent years . |
| 15 | There was a mild stockbuilding boom , probably to make up for dislocations over the winter , and commodity prices took off again . |