Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period , wild and woolly concepts of ‘ national grids ’ of leys were published and thick black pencil lines defaced countless maps — naive enthusiasm that is still held up for ridicule by ley sceptics . |
| 2 | COLIN WALSH , already the subject of one Trivial Pursuit question , is probably lined up for another . |
| 3 | Jamie Sylvester , the Glamorgan Seconds and Maesteg Celtic batsman is also called up for his first game of the season . |
| 4 | A different future is now opening up for Father Martin Flatman following yesterday 's vote at the synod to ordain women as priests . |
| 5 | The cockpit is well set up for both racing and cruising |
| 6 | The land is then tied up for another generation . |
| 7 | The latter comes in only when this mechanism is no longer operative , when it fails to apply , and the role of the preposition is then to make up for the inoperative movement of incidence … |
| 8 | Serafine sways with her hands , Xanthe follows , imitates gigglingly , but Miranda is too grown up for such playschool ways . |