Example sentences of "be [verb] up [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIXTY seven schools are squaring up to compete for £8,000 prize-money in The Northern Echo Schools Cricket Championships . |
| 2 | BURIAL costs in Middlesbrough are going up to pay for the installation of cameras in flats overlooking cemeteries . |
| 3 | A committee has now been set up to lobby for the restoration of the medieval paving and an invitation has been issued to the public to show its support by sponsoring a brick at L10,000 a time ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 13 ) . |
| 4 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm going up to change for dinner . |
| 6 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 7 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 8 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 9 | ‘ All Bonanza has to do now is stay out of sight until a good tale is dreamed up to account for two of his boys getting mixed up in this thing last night , and a few unimpeachable witnesses to make the tale stick , and we all go back where we started . ’ |
| 10 | Midfielder Willie Falconer is lined up to deputise for Phillips , who was sent off for violent conduct against Southend United . |
| 11 | Mr John Dyer , chairman of the Barlow Clowes Investors ' Group , which was set up to fight for compensation , said : ‘ I really think investors ought to be deeply grateful . |
| 12 | It was no surprise when he was signed up to play for Somerset on a three-year contract after only his first tour of England . |