Example sentences of "be [verb] up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never intended that his shares should be given up for no payment . |
| 2 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 3 | Hanson is said to be gearing up for a further full-scale foray into our industrial base . |
| 4 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 5 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 6 | I was supposed to be saving up for a car , but I 'm still too young to take my driving test , so I bought her instead — with the first payment of the advance for this book ! |
| 7 | Similar ideas for features , visits and events could be thought up for the remaining areas . |
| 8 | Three year rolling service agreements are to be drawn up for the other directors and senior employees as set out in Appendix II . |
| 9 | Environmental commissioner Ioannis Paleokrassas announced that a special committee had been set up to carry out impact assessments on the application of regional and structural funds , and that a timetable would be drawn up for the implementation of the " Fifth Action programme for the environment " — a legislative framework for the future . |
| 10 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent ( UX No 425 ) , should come as no real surprise . |
| 11 | That Hewlett-Packard Co is thought to be lining up for a piece of Taligent , should come as no real surprise . |
| 12 | Many thousands of bicycles will be lining up for the Argus Cycling Tour … but one entry is particularly unusual … because it 's a tandem . |
| 13 | However , the recommendations of its members have indicated that the way will be opened up for the abandonment of most restrictions . |
| 14 | At a frank meeting with the above , at which this community 's concerns were forcefully put , it was agreed that work would halt during our community festival and that the area would be cleaned up for the festival . |
| 15 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're a bastard and thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life ’ |
| 17 | One outraged victim Gail York , 23 , yelled : ‘ You 're a bastard and a thief and deserve to be locked up for the rest of your life . ’ |
| 18 | We have to ensure that people who deserve to be locked up for the public good are locked up . |
| 19 | let's face it , you know , deserve to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives . |
| 20 | Whoever wrote the lyrics to that should be locked up for an affront to the English language . |
| 21 | ‘ Unfortunately , something came up — a trouble-shooting mission that required Adam 's special diplomatic talents — I 'm afraid he 's going to be tied up for the major part of the weekend . |
| 22 | My father had recruited three young gypsies who had not been and could not be called up for the Navy . |
| 23 | The latest speakers to be firmed up for the conference are David Pascall , chairman of the National Curriculum Council , who will speak at the general assembly session on The New Generation — A Strategy for Reading , and Simon Lang of the Henley Centre for Forecasting , who will be a speaker at the general assembly on The Future of the Book . |
| 24 | Whether directly or indirectly through a broker , documents submitted to the Stock Exchange for reading need to be marked up for the relevant references from the Yellow and Blue Books . |
| 25 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |
| 26 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 27 | And he stressed it was unlikely an ‘ entire pattern of stability ’ could be set up for every operation . |
| 28 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |
| 29 | Last season a referee allowed himself to be wired up for a League match at The Den to record some of the things he had to put up with from players . |
| 30 | There has been reference in the Selby area for the likelihood that land initially allocated for industry will in fact be taken up for a supermarket . |