Example sentences of "up [noun] for [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides were committed to attack — Aberdeen supported Shearer and Jess with Mason and Paatelainen on the flanks while United conjured up support for Ferguson and Connolly from Crabbe and O'Neill — and the result was a game that flowed . |
| 2 | No overall body , such as the ICDMA , has set up rules for trading and trading is generally more fragmented than in the dollar CD market . |
| 3 | I did little bits to help , like picking up sticks for firewood and fetching water from the well , as we did n't have any electricity or running water . |
| 4 | One by one , governments gave up sovereignty for stability and acceded to the TAPIR . |
| 5 | Current concerns regarding the moral state of the nation and high levels of crime will , I have no doubt , set up targets for blame and cause resources to be put into headline catching projects to ‘ deal ’ with offenders — in the meantime monies and effort put into the social education of our ordinary young people are diminishing . |
| 6 | ‘ Very often , at Ealing , the Director himself would think up ideas for films and would probably have a lot to do with the genesis of the scripts as well . ’ |
| 7 | The notion of ‘ policy ’ is insufficiently precise to indicate the role of members , for example in the consideration of the scope and content of cost-improvement programmes to free up resources for developments and unfunded elements of pay awards . |
| 8 | ( Walt , 1988 ) They ended up being ‘ just another pair of hands ’ to the nursing services , distributing contraceptives and following up defaulters for tuberculosis and family planning . |
| 9 | Look up recipes for no-sugar or low-sugar desserts and try out one or two . |
| 10 | Ridging ploughs , with double ( left and right ) mould-boards , are used to set up ridges for potatoes and roots . |
| 11 | I have not only politically united the German people , but also militarily rearmed them , and I have further attempted to tear up page for page that Treaty , which contained in its 448 articles the most base violations ever accorded to nations and human beings . |
| 12 | Give up sweets for Lent or something . |
| 13 | She was involved , she said , in fixing up tours for VIPs and high-powered executives . |
| 14 | Of Records , Laurie Bruce writes : ‘ Many people are giving up records for cassettes or compact discs – a great mistake as records will be around for a long time to come . |
| 15 | Task analysis , in common with every other perceptual process , is a matter of setting up mechanisms for categorisation and filtering . |