Example sentences of "be [verb] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must never be broken up for short-term gain . |
| 2 | Also the larger tablets can be broken up for small fish . |
| 3 | Without pilots gaining experience at the lowest level , we will be shaping up for another chronic pilots shortage in a few years ' time . |
| 4 | At least 33 shows have been cancelled and the music hall will be boarded up for good within three months , Palladium officials said . |
| 5 | The adviser can only hope that if the client was put at her ease while at the bureau then she may come back for further help when that issue could be picked up for suitable referral . |
| 6 | A resource box can be built up for each history unit . |
| 7 | Once a shape has been generated , however , it can be plotted at any position and in any orientation or size so a library of shapes can be built up for repeated use . |
| 8 | Flower arrangers can test their skills by submitting designs for that posy , and colleagues will choose the winning entry to be made up for 2 July . |
| 9 | Erm oh well maybe yours can be saved up for another time ? |
| 10 | Such group-frequency correlations have been extensively developed for organic compounds , and similar correlations can be drawn up for inorganic species [ 19 ] . |
| 11 | Thereafter it should be opened up for general discussion . |
| 12 | The funding up by 14pc on this year will enable 495 acres of derelict land to be cleaned up for industrial , commercial , housing and leisure development . |
| 13 | Instead of being demolished , the unused reactors will be locked up for 35 years . |
| 14 | I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ 's sake . |
| 15 | I was relieved to be roped up for this . |
| 16 | But there was only two of us and the firm did not want to keep you on , realizing that you could be coming up for fifteen , they they finished you . |
| 17 | The organisation will consist of executive and advisory boards and ad hoc committees and task forces will be set up for specific projects . |
| 18 | Is it not time for an initiative to make local authorities hand over their property to housing associations , and could regional ombudsman be set up for that purpose ? |
| 19 | A problem report will be set up for each reported problem . |
| 20 | This is illustrated in the following drill using Spanish : This type of drill would have to be set up for each person , number , tense and verb class , and be thoroughly drilled in order to gain automatic control of the association of pronoun and verb ending . |
| 21 | Separate drills need to be set up for each noun class to learn its associated affixes . |
| 22 | A register of licensed auditors is to be set up for each member state . |
| 23 | Controls can be set up for most of these experiments , e.g. plant cress seed on dry blotting paper as well as wet , so that children begin to realise that it really is the water that is responsible for the change . |
| 24 | Dettori , who will be warming up for next season in Hong Kong , did not rest on his laurels , steering odds-on Shintillo to a sauntering success in the Something For The Boys Maiden . |
| 25 | It was an impossible arrangement in the circumstances and through their solicitors they agreed that the horse should be put up for public auction , each partner having the right to buy it outright . |
| 26 | He suffered a jaw broken in two places which had to be wired up for five weeks . |
| 27 | Goods coming into the country can be held up for other routine reasons , for example , non-completion of paperwork or the non-payment of tax and excise duties , said Customs . |
| 28 | Tory MPs protested the measures may be held up for two years because of delays on the Bill to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |