Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 3 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 4 | Today , more than 100 million Europeans are gearing up for this winter 's invasion of the ski-slopes . |
| 5 | Also , £192,000-worth of preference dividends have also been rolled up for future payment . |
| 6 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 7 | The concept of the provings : the way in which the drug pictures are built up for each remedy . |
| 8 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 9 | Several racecourses would like to stage more Sunday meetings but so far no fixtures ( apart from a point-to-point ) have been drawn up for next year . |
| 10 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 11 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 12 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 13 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 14 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 15 | Q. My tank has been set up for five months now , and I do not seem to be able to achieve a good green algae growth . |
| 16 | A helpline has been set up for anxious parents . |
| 17 | Individual project boards have been set up for each area of market testing . |
| 18 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 19 | Another common advance ordering practice is that of selecting books a few months before publication , after scrutiny of information provided by library suppliers or ( in the case of academic libraries ) by specialized alerting services which have been set up for this purpose . |
| 20 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 21 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |
| 22 | They must never be broken up for short-term gain . |
| 23 | Also the larger tablets can be broken up for small fish . |
| 24 | The adviser can only hope that if the client was put at her ease while at the bureau then she may come back for further help when that issue could be picked up for suitable referral . |
| 25 | A resource box can be built up for each history unit . |
| 26 | Once a shape has been generated , however , it can be plotted at any position and in any orientation or size so a library of shapes can be built up for repeated use . |
| 27 | Flower arrangers can test their skills by submitting designs for that posy , and colleagues will choose the winning entry to be made up for 2 July . |
| 28 | Erm oh well maybe yours can be saved up for another time ? |
| 29 | Such group-frequency correlations have been extensively developed for organic compounds , and similar correlations can be drawn up for inorganic species [ 19 ] . |
| 30 | Thereafter it should be opened up for general discussion . |