Example sentences of "be [verb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stars are queueing up for treatment at Holby Hospital — the setting for the controversial BBC series Casualty . |
| 2 | Does he agree that the fact that so many parts of the country are queueing up for ESA status is a tribute to him and to the usefulness of such areas ? |
| 3 | The military style great coat , which we featured a couple of weeks ago , is probably THE single item fashion victims are queueing up for . |
| 4 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 5 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 6 | During recent years , demand has been building up for greatly increased facilities for full-time substitute care . |
| 7 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 9 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 10 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 11 | About the year 1737 , were found in St Margaret 's church-yard , Westminster , in a dry gravelly soil , at the depth of about 18 feet , or less , which had not been broken up for above fifty years before , three entire fir coffins ; the two largest clampt together with iron , as boxes sometimes are . |
| 12 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 13 | TOUGH guys Sylvester Stallone , 46 , and Arnold Schwarzenegger are squaring up for their latest film The Last Action Hero . |
| 14 | MARKETS in the Far East and Middle East are opening up for hi-tech heat-beating textile produced by Performance Fabrics . |
| 15 | The move is unprecedented : a substantial number of security force members have in the past been charged and convicted of terrorist-type offences , but never before has such a number been picked up for questioning at one time . |
| 16 | Welcome back:Thousands of new Oxford students have been signing up for anything from scuba diving to tiddlywinks , in this year 's freshers ' fair . |
| 17 | The traditional multilateral institutions , IMF and World Bank , are gearing up for a major contribution . |
| 18 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 19 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 20 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 21 | Further growth of the market is anticipated , perhaps by 30pc again next year , and many of the big players are gearing up for expansion . |
| 22 | However , since we are keyed up for decisive physical action this is still the best way of working it off . |
| 23 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 24 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
| 25 | Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted . |
| 26 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 27 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 28 | In the course of completing the resurvey of the Coventry district , a comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area by way of experiment . |
| 29 | A comprehensive borehole and shaft database has been built up for the Nuneaton-Bedworth area , by way of experiment , so that thematic maps can be produced when required , as well as a more advanced three-dimensional depiction of geological structure . |
| 30 | Can any of you who are meeting up for the spurs game do me a favour , please ? |