Example sentences of "up as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some , however , continue to end up as whale meat in restaurants .
2 Trent held it up as evidence .
3 It lay between them , a scrap of paper that had travelled halfway round the world , and could finish up as evidence in a murder trial .
4 None could be held up as creator , sustainer or judge of the world .
5 The intergrading interactions between plants and animals , herbivory , dispersal and pollination , present several conflicts summed up as defence versus attraction .
6 In Spain , the party that might hold the balance of power after the general election on June 6th , the Communist-dominated United Left , has reservations about the treaty , though it has dressed them up as criticism of the government for refusing to call a referendum on it .
7 That links up as farce again , does n't it ?
8 Alun Evans , secretary of the Welsh football association who doubles up as chairman of the UAU committee , said : ‘ I was informed by the chairman of the UAU rugby committee that he was discussing the possible sponsorship of its championship and I received a copy of a proposal … it contained a number of features which were not acceptable to the union and it was therefore with great surprise that we learned a launch for the sponsorship had been called and it was decided that the union could not agree to this action . ’
9 Next , 's friends and colleagues dressed up as cat burglars and prowled around Telford town centre collecting money for Comic Relief .
10 On the other hand , parts of the budget could be set up as profit centres which charged other parts of the budget for using their services .
11 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 .
12 Who would finish up as victor ludorum ? ’
13 In Orkney the abandoned wreck of the Bettina Danica will be held up as proof that tough controls are needed on shipping passing through the treacherous waters of the Pentland Firth .
14 But I have some sympathy for the institutions ' view that their duty is to their policyholders and they can not be expected to double up as company regulators .
15 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 .
16 Nonetheless , some males seem to be irresistible and end up as harem holders .
17 What is important is that all the chlorine in the VOCs ends up as chloride ion rather than other potentially hazardous chlorinated compounds .
18 They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder .
19 They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder .
20 ‘ You set yourself up as judge and jury , and yet who are you to decide matters — a man who spent the evening philandering with his secretary ! ’
21 Small business you 're setting up as self employed
22 At one stage it was seriously suggested that she would end up as Attorney General .
23 EIGHT thousand pigeons which vanished during a 300-mile race could have ended up as pie fillings .
24 The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school .
25 It was partly for a story , and partly to size the paper up as competition or business .
26 THE Gulf war has revived a strain of anti-Americanism in the Soviet army , dressed up as support for Iraq .
27 However , the world tourism market is fiercely competitive and becoming ever more so with the countries of Eastern Europe now opening up as holiday destinations .
28 The system takes in small amounts of fresh water from time to time , and these introduce a fresh supply of mineral salts , which build up as scale deposits in the boiler and within the pipework .
29 Specifically , most of the items that we discussed are picked up as agenda items throughout this particular agenda .
30 The windows had been bricked up as part of the soundproofing .
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