Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents were indignant when they discovered about it and he gave it up through respect for their views . |
| 2 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 3 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 4 | PERRIER , the French group which has come to epitomise ‘ designer ’ water , has put its soft drinks division up for sale for around £250million . |
| 5 | Now the whole block in Kensington Palace Gardens , London , is up for sale for just £57.5m . |
| 6 | Hartlepool restaurant Tricolos , just off the town centre , is up for sale for offers around £190,000 . |
| 7 | Up for sale for the Fox Box appeal , great . |
| 8 | When we got there he got a letter to say the owner had fixed up for coal for Poole in Dorset . |
| 9 | It could be spent by the Training and Enterprise Councils ( TECs ) for the benefit of the people who run those organisations or simply end up as profit for the TECs . |
| 10 | Salaries had never been comparable with others in the record industry ; the smaller , more agreeable , ‘ cottage industry ’ atmosphere of the company had always been held up as compensation for a parsimonious attitude to wages . |
| 11 | THE Gulf war has revived a strain of anti-Americanism in the Soviet army , dressed up as support for Iraq . |
| 12 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 13 | Given Russia 's high latitudinal position , her short farming season , low productivity , absence of markets , and scant incentives for yield improvement in the late Tsarist period and until the advent of NEP , the natural result was a strong peasant urge to supplement agricultural income by promysly ( craft industries ) , one of which was the production and working up of flax for the kustarnyi industry . |
| 14 | The first is the willingness to mount genuine experimental projects ( as distinct from ‘ trial ’ or ‘ experimental ’ schools in curriculum projects committed from the very start to widespread implementation ) , the second the building up of machinery for curriculum development at local level . |
| 15 | In the first place the setting up of machinery for examination and selection predates the creation of means to plan and develop curriculum . |
| 16 | A sub-committee for conferences is , therefore , to be set up with responsibility for all the conferences organised under DAB 's auspices ; this subcommittee will subsume the Annual Congress Committee . |
| 17 | RON HARRIS : ( Chelsea and Brentford- 1961–1983 ) : ‘ People called him Chopper Harris , and Chopper was my first nickname when I went to Wimbledon — before the crowd came up with Psycho for me . |
| 18 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're burning up with love for me , are n't you , me little darlin' ? ’ |
| 20 | Day-trippers to Calais can load up with lager for a third of the price here . |
| 21 | The living room has to house some or all of these things and if it 's used for eating has to come up with storage for china , glass and cutlery too . |
| 22 | In Northamptonshire new book money has failed to keep up with inflation for the last three years … and charges have had to go up . |
| 23 | Its ability to be teamed up with Word for Windows to scan text straight into the latter is also very useful , and has proved to be a time saver ( now you know why we like typed letters for the letters page ! ) . |
| 24 | " But then Pippin king of Aquitaine came up with relief for Lothar 's army , and battle was rejoined . |
| 25 | Well why could n't you put up with margarine for one day ? |
| 26 | ‘ Charles never put up with discomfort for the sake of it , but this is carrying grandeur too far . ’ |
| 27 | When it passes out of his hands , Gollum is so eaten up with desire for the Ring that even though he has become evil he helps Frodo find Mount Doom in order to stay with the Ring . |
| 28 | The BBC kept up with demand for Pole to Pole . |
| 29 | Is not it time that Opposition Members realised that there is an absolute necessity for young people to grow up with respect for the law , property and persons ? |
| 30 | WOLVES paid a high price for their failure to come up with cash for David Kelly last season . |