Example sentences of "up the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My general conclusion is that the pro-classical themes are the more important : they have opened up the opportunity for an extensive development of the unnecessarily narrow focus of Beccaria 's original formulation of classical criminology , and this opportunity will be taken up in Part Two . |
| 2 | Imagine that — passing up the opportunity for a little hanky-panky with yours truly . |
| 3 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 4 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 5 | Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account . |
| 6 | Well I gets him pulled out of the ditch and I brings him down and it 's the time I , I had Sarah boil up the boiler for the pigs . |
| 7 | It is doubtful if you look up the word for baggage retrieval , and then look for a sign with those words . |
| 8 | In 1904 Tansley and William Smith set up the Committee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation , later known as the British Vegetation Committee . |
| 9 | They followed up the cases for 12 months to discover how the accident had affected their general mental state , travel anxiety and their attitude to driving or being a passenger . |
| 10 | The abrupt cut can be softened by a lap dissolve , originally done by gradually closing down the iris on the lens ( a fade-out ) , winding back the film and then opening up the iris for the same length of time and film ( a fade-in ) . |
| 11 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 12 | Some stories say the scribe who drew up the document for the Queen Regent was a Madeiran and that he deliberately forgot to include Madeira . |
| 13 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |
| 14 | How might an organization divide up the responsibility for marketing activities between its sub-divisions and head office ? |
| 15 | Some boys simply gave up the struggle for power , or scarcely attempted it . |
| 16 | For the eye to work the following minimum perfectly coordinated steps have to take place ( there are many others happening simultaneously , but even a grossly simplified description is enough to point up the problems for Darwinian theory ) . |
| 17 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 18 | The trophy , named after a past director of Stoddard 's carpets , has been at the company for the past 37 years , but this is the first time in history that the organisers have opened up the competition for runners up . |
| 19 | In part two : Heavy going : Weighing up the competition for the Boat Race . |
| 20 | Fran Bennett , CPAG director , suggests both major parties are softening up the public for more means-testing and fewer rights to universal benefits . |
| 21 | When an engineer calls up the plans for a jet engine , the information in the definition of that object allows the system — automatically and efficiently — to retrieve the plans for all its sub-components . |
| 22 | He , along with Spaak and the long-serving Luxembourg premier , Joseph Beck ( who chaired the meeting ) , were the driving force at Messina : they were , in fact , the three men who in exile had drawn up the plans for Benelux . |
| 23 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 24 | I can not resist saying that when Japan finally exchanges her peaceful simplicity , her admiration for , and artistic appreciation of , Nature 's beauties , and her contented national life , for the storm stress , and hurry of that feverish existence known to the West , she will have given up the substance for the shadow . |
| 25 | Maggie 's mum taught her how to sew , years ago , they had an old Singer from her aunt who died , and ran up the clothes for all the family . |
| 26 | I am looking forward to the next stage of Tencel and we are already working with Fibers and Research to set up the teams for a new project . |
| 27 | Under preparation for three years , the bill set up the framework for the legal operation of private radio and television stations and for an independent public broadcasting system . |
| 28 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 29 | IN Monday 's paper ( Echo March 9 ) I read that the Darlington council poll tax will be £300 this year , this includes £19 to make up the shortfall for people who refuse to pay . |
| 30 | ARSENAL 'S run to the top of the Premier League confirms my belief that they will wrap up the title for George Graham by Easter . |