Example sentences of "up for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I even fancied that the prop-wash from our full power had blown the dinghy back a bit to make up for the slight delay in the drop ) . |
| 2 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 3 | Seven acres of land has been rented to make up for the lost space . |
| 4 | These rare but vivid glimpses of the extraordinary variety of life experience among the older generation in the early twentieth century are not only precious in themselves , but suggest the dangers of generalizing about the earlier past to make up for the lost history of ageing . |
| 5 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | Three year rolling service agreements are to be drawn up for the other directors and senior employees as set out in Appendix II . |
| 8 | On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken . |
| 9 | We had booked up for the ordinary ship and , and rail you know , to go over by ship and rail but er during the months awaiting the , I think we were going in July and er we had booked up maybe about April , but they had put these planes on and Polytechnic wrote to us and said , if we paid two pounds ten extra , we could go by air and we did it and the full tour for a week in Paris , going by air , was twelve pounds ten . |
| 10 | ‘ She was up for the entire morning , and this afternoon she must rest . |
| 11 | What he was planning would tie half the hospital up for the entire morning ! |
| 12 | Used to come up for the odd break . |
| 13 | ‘ Come on , my sweet morsels , open up for the nice sheep . ’ |
| 14 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
| 15 | Grass-roots workers recognise the problems being stored up for the general election . |
| 16 | It is being used simply to speed things up for the general election . |
| 17 | THE Royal Mail is gearing up for the General Election . |
| 18 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 19 | The bag lady enters Venice , she thought , trying to cheer herself up for the daunting journey ahead . |
| 20 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 21 | Upgrades to its existing 91 and 93 systems are in the works and Encore says it expects its OEM , McDonnell-Douglas , to sign up for the new machine . |
| 22 | Morris turned up for the new campaign with a sensational 133 , the first 100 off 60 balls and the second 50 off only 16 , against Minor Counties champions Staffordshire in a pre-season testimonial match for Barnett . |
| 23 | As usual , Queen 's have n't their sorrows to seek at the start of a new season while they wait to see who will turn up for the new University term . |
| 24 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 25 | IT just has to be every teacher 's nightmare — to turn up for the new term and face TEN sets of twins . |
| 26 | Buckinghamshire speedway ace Simon Wigg is gearing up for the new season with a new club … he 's signed up for Coventr |
| 27 | Women team up for the new season |
| 28 | It claims that over 1,000 independent software vendors have already signed up for the new version . |
| 29 | It claims over 1,000 ISVs have already signed up for the new version . |
| 30 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |