Example sentences of "up [noun pl] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A businessman and a man who puts up ramps for a living ? |
| 2 | the French are convinced that the Germans want to preserve their monetary hegemony as EMU approaches : the more dominant the Mark is , the more Germany will be able to dictate conditions and draw up plans for a European central bank based on the Bundesbank . |
| 3 | The main aims of the workshop are to stimulate the production of media education textbooks and resources for the African context , to equip more people , especially women , as trainers , and to draw up plans for a media education programme in southern and eastern Africa , starting in 1992 . |
| 4 | A FOREIGN medical company has drawn up plans for a private hospital development in Darlington , it was revealed last night . |
| 5 | Deadwood prospered and Costner was befriended by locals until they discovered he had drawn up plans for an 800-room hotel and conference centre nearby . |
| 6 | On June 7 , the government named a committee of experts which would draw up proposals for a draft constitution on the basis of previous constitutions and the report of the National Commission of Democracy , which advocated an executive president and a national assembly , both to be elected on the basis of universal suffrage , an independent judiciary and guarantees of human rights . |
| 7 | Anna is a Russian poet , visiting London to drum up signatures for a petition protesting against her brother 's imprisonment in the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | One Air Force Day we were putting up stands for a show and he leapt up and did about half a dozen speeches from Henry IV and Henry V . |
| 9 | FIRST-TIME buyers are queueing to snap up homes for a £1 down-payment . |
| 10 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 11 | One of the interesting things about my reminiscing is that it stirred up memories for a lot of other people , too . |
| 12 | Many councillors take the view that it is easy to drum up names for a petition although you may have more impact if , say , the petition is restricted to immediate neighbours of the development . |
| 13 | Looking up charges for a cricket net or a tennis court per hour yielded high success rates ( around 80 per cent for each of the bottom two bands and around 90 per cent for the top band ) . |
| 14 | I had an ultimatum from Great-gran : if I take up proceedings for a divorce , then I go out of here , but dear Andrew stays . ’ |