Example sentences of "were [verb] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government-approved ‘ mousetrap ’ had for so long banished regional English cheeses , for instance , that they were given up for dead . |
| 2 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 3 | And winger Franz Carr ruined two promising build-ups with poor crosses when Deane and Hodges were lining up for clear strikes at goal . |
| 4 | Follow-up questions , particularly into critical areas , were drawn up for intensive two-day visits . |
| 5 | That caused a shortage , especially of male dancers , which was worsened when others were called up for military service during the war . |
| 6 | All the lead-in codes were set up for USA-style dialling ; local , long distance and so on , and whilst these could be changed the lead-out character was set to be a semi-colon . |
| 7 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 8 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 9 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |