Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents were indignant when they discovered about it and he gave it up through respect for their views . |
| 2 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 3 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 4 | THE famous Ritz hotel is up for grabs for a knock down Pounds 100m . |
| 5 | Prizes of tickets for transatlantic flights , provided by Air Canada Vacations , are up for grabs for the top fundraisers . |
| 6 | Places are up for grabs for the Solheim cup challenge against the USA , the ladies equivalent of the Ryder Cup . |
| 7 | As well as cups for cut flowers and floral art , prizes are also up for grabs for best vegetables and farm produce , cakes , preserves , and handicrafts . |
| 8 | Queues stretched for a hundred yards yesterday as season ticket holders lined up for tickets for the Hillsborough semi-final on April 5 . |
| 9 | As my friend David Jessel has pointed out , even if 99 per cent of all criminal convictions are correct , that still leaves in a prison population of 40,000 some 400 who have no business being there ; and I can not imagine any experience more demoralizing than to be locked up for years for a crime one did n't commit . |
| 10 | PERRIER , the French group which has come to epitomise ‘ designer ’ water , has put its soft drinks division up for sale for around £250million . |
| 11 | Now the whole block in Kensington Palace Gardens , London , is up for sale for just £57.5m . |
| 12 | Hartlepool restaurant Tricolos , just off the town centre , is up for sale for offers around £190,000 . |
| 13 | Up for sale for the Fox Box appeal , great . |
| 14 | And I used to take 'em round the pubs and put 'em up for raffles for Christmas . |
| 15 | When we got there he got a letter to say the owner had fixed up for coal for Poole in Dorset . |
| 16 | Gregorian chant and classical polyphony were held up as models for liturgical music , whilst music which was regarded as operatic or theatrical was discouraged . |
| 17 | It could be spent by the Training and Enterprise Councils ( TECs ) for the benefit of the people who run those organisations or simply end up as profit for the TECs . |
| 18 | Salaries had never been comparable with others in the record industry ; the smaller , more agreeable , ‘ cottage industry ’ atmosphere of the company had always been held up as compensation for a parsimonious attitude to wages . |
| 19 | THE Gulf war has revived a strain of anti-Americanism in the Soviet army , dressed up as support for Iraq . |
| 20 | Some table easels can double up as carriers for wet canvases . |
| 21 | Some table easels can double up as carriers for wet canvases . |
| 22 | Watkins knew of the Chin tracks in India which follow the most direct line between villages regardless of gradient ; the straight camel tracks of Palestine , sighted on tree clumps on ridges , notched where the line went through ; and the skyline cairns of Egypt set up as landmarks for caravans . |
| 23 | Victor McGahie said the rebuilding of the station , destroyed in an IRA bomb attack five years ago , will set local people up as targets for further terrorist attacks . |
| 24 | This can also be said of many of the larger species of Cichlasoma which often end up as pets for a number of reasons . |
| 25 | Now the grey dew had gone from the grass , pats of dung steamed where the cattle had been standing , and Cameron , in his shirt-sleeves with a cloth tying back his long black hair , was supervising the winching up of timbers for the roof . |
| 26 | Thirdly , a possible source of increased prices lies in the dividing up of services for the purpose of contracting . |
| 27 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 28 | His treatment was informal and impressionistic , depending on entertaining anecdotes , skilful use of quotation , and the dextrous building up of incidents for its effect . |
| 29 | Conflict about assessment at Key Stage 4 and about equivalence with GCSE ultimately led to the giving up of proposals for double testing . |
| 30 | Corporate lawyers are well versed in the marking up of documents for reading so it is quite useful to arrange for a junior member of the lawyer team to undertake the initial mark up . |