Example sentences of "up [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banks step up support for new technology |
| 2 | YUGOSLAV jet fighters launched rocket attacks on villages in western Bosnia-Hercegovina yesterday as federal forces appeared to step up support for Serbian militiamen in the ethnic conflict convulsing the former Yugoslav republic . |
| 3 | We will give people a new right of access to open country , create new national parks and step up protection for special sites . |
| 4 | Labour would have backed his ambitious scheme to step up funding for European industry and would have been less rigid in opposing transfers of cash to the poorer regions . |
| 5 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 6 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 7 | Unable to do anything in bed but lie and whimper so temporarily give up search for progressive chemist who keeps contraceptives out on display . |
| 8 | France steps up search for cheap breeder |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm hoping to meet a man rich enough to keep me in comfort so I can indulge my every whim and fancy and give up work for good , ’ she said drily . |
| 10 | This Carpenter 's In-House store at Headington in Oxford is one of twenty-six accross the country that has shut up shop for good . |
| 11 | At one stage , he considered closing up shop for good . |
| 12 | Telly star serves up cheer for homeless |
| 13 | A 74 year old man was noted to have a 10 cm mass in the left lobe of the liver on follow up ultrasonography for colorectal carcinoma . |
| 14 | Thus policy-makers need to consider not just how to open up employment for lone mothers , but also how best to support those who are not employed . |
| 15 | These results will step up pressure for roundtable talks between party and reformers , along the lines of those held last year all over Eastern Europe . |
| 16 | CU draws up list for grey campaign |
| 17 | IBM DEUTSCHLAND SERVE UP GLOOM FOR NEW LEADER |
| 18 | The LCC grant aid scheme offered £2 million to local authorities to buy up land for green belt purposes , and a vigorous period of purchase ensued between 1935 and 1939 . |