Example sentences of "up for [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very soon he will be up for Oscars and head over heels in the switchback strip of movies . |
| 2 | Yesterday , an appeal was also set up for adults and children 's clothes and shoes , which should be taken to the council headquarters at Bodlondeb , Conwy . |
| 3 | ( It is worth noting in passing that a similar kind of question comes up for dancers as well as singers . |
| 4 | Now that both the Secretary of State for Defence and the Prime Minister have comprehensively rubbished those assurances , will the Secretary of State for Scotland have to eat humble pie again or will he stand up for Scotland and make this a resignation issue ? |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ said Helen , ‘ I do know a girl who works in the outer office there , and we do sometimes meet up for lunch and I could try to put her on to it … |
| 6 | Oh Sunday it was really bad cos he had these people turn up for lunch and erm , said it 's Sam arranged to come and collect him quarter to six and then we went up to Fore Gate for lunch and then we came back here and had erm we were all standing in the kitchen here , knock on the door , a walked in , I 'd completely forgotten about it |
| 7 | Rosellina was on her way to Rimini , to work in a children 's village set up for orphans and children who had become separated from their families . |
| 8 | At once CAMRA declared itself as both a consumer and a conservationist watchdog , speaking up for citizens as well as consumers against the abuses inflicted on one of our best national traditions . |
| 9 | Such a rejection of state and vanguard party with its accompanied space opened up for pluralism and difference is of potential significance for left political culture today . |
| 10 | The three year contracts that Lyall and McGiven signed in the summer of 1990 were coming up for expiry so the Town board have been working to keep their highly successful pair with the club to put a stop to speculation and rumours that were beginning to start . |
| 11 | Thus Aintree 's recall man for the past seven years became the sacrificial offering so that the Jockey Club bigwigs could get on with more important business like tarting themselves up for Ascot and tea with the Royals . |
| 12 | Here the idle-up facility will be used to set the model up for aerobatics and the normal throttle action used for general flying . |
| 13 | One Victorian scheme was for a tunnel lit by candles , where horses would draw passengers across in special vehicles , pausing only at an artificial island in the middle of the Channel for everyone to come up for air and water . |
| 14 | How much land must you commit to arable rotation , and how much must be laid up for hay or silage ? |
| 15 | These requirements are bound to conflict on your limited acres , particularly in spring and early summer when a large proportion of your land is laid up for hay or in arable crops . |
| 16 | Such good management involves proper drainage , maintenance of a neutral pH , a balance between grazing and cutting , mixed stocking , controlled grazing and resting , the avoidance of physical damage ( particularly in bad weather ) , and the return of organic matter to the soil to make up for hay or silage removed . |
| 17 | and then when they break up for Easter and it 's only sort of like whatever it is from now until September |
| 18 | Just as a stylesheet is set up for text so it is possible to create a basic colour palette using either the HLS ( Hue , Lightness , Saturation ) , CMYB ( Cyan , Magenta , Yellow , Black ) or RGB ( Red , Blue , Green ) models . |
| 19 | If he turns up for court and he says , yes I had a terrible time at the police station and there were all sorts of breaches of but I am now here on a , I 'm gon na tell the truth , that 's no problem . |
| 20 | The media are obviously hard up for stories because they seem interested in what they refer to as our overcrowding problems here . |
| 21 | I still have to stitch er , erm my cardigan up for Melanie but erm it was easy to start off the other one while I was talking to your mother . |
| 22 | Well they were going with their at the beginning of the year up for register and they 're catching up on it now . |
| 23 | In addition , the existing nurses , who were given undertakings when the trust was set up that their posts would be protected , are now being told that all their jobs are up for re-examination and that anyone seeking extra education will soon be told that someone else is waiting to take her position — |
| 24 | ROLL UP For girls that want to achieve the brilliant set looks which have been inspiring us lately but do n't want to roll their hair everyday , Zotos may have the answer . |
| 25 | In the simplest case , you may not be sure whether you should continue to turn up for work or not . |
| 26 | I think when we were , as far as I can remember is when we were sent either letters of , letters to warn us that we were gon na be dismissed if we did n't turn up for work or either when we were dismissed . |
| 27 | Paula James , Matthew Glyrm 's youthful amanuensis ( after a one-year course in office routines at the technical college ) had turned up for work as usual , unaware of the events which had robbed her of her employer . |
| 28 | First , Matthew 's secretary , the girl who works in the office next door , turned up for work as usual this morning ; she lives a few miles out and she knew nothing of what had happened . ’ |
| 29 | If you 've had speeding disqualification er speeding points and you were up for disqualification because you 'd totted up twelve points |
| 30 | Utah and Nevada were up for grabs since the Turner-Harvest-Ramirez and US Cav joint action put the Western Maniax out of business , and Jazzbeaux thought the ‘ pomps could gain something from a quick fight rather than a long war . |