Example sentences of "[vb pp] up as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 'll be a bit off for luck ? ’ he asked , proving that he still retained some of the guile he had picked up as a practising country lawyer . |
| 2 | Wo n't get picked up as a suspected drunk-driver , he 'll look like a rep getting an early start . ’ |
| 3 | So it can observe the animals illuminated by its red searchlight , while they swim in the dark , quite unaware that they are being eyed up as a potential meal . |
| 4 | Before he died in 1983 , Swire had the exhilarating experience of watching one of his Cathay Pacific aircraft landing at Gatwick airport , the first of innumerable scheduled passenger flights from and to Hong Kong by the airline he had built up as an international enterprise . |
| 5 | All this data is then written up as a technical report , and forms part of the information stored as an archive for future reference . |
| 6 | Part of the fever of the times ; if the Black Panther Huey Newton , posing with rifle and spear , could be written up as a theoretical genius , and his partner , Bobby Seale , interpreted as a tactical wizard , then how much a symbol was Ali — the first to tap and manifest glinting black pride , to dispute with vigour erosive self-laceration . |
| 7 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 8 | This has n't shown up as a past need ’ . |
| 9 | Derek Douane was got up as a Dickensian urchin , with a broken neck and a dirty face . |
| 10 | The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired . |
| 11 | ‘ Then the mist came nearer until it reached a man and an eagle and before her eyes they turned to stone and were raised up as a single standing stone , to point up into the sky . |
| 12 | The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam , and water was pouring down the panes . |
| 13 | Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude . |
| 14 | A British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) television programme , Panorama , broadcast on Nov. 18 , suggested that Waite had been set up as a front man in the arms for hostages deal and helped gather intelligence on the whereabouts of the captors . |
| 15 | Hence it was decided that the pathway should be set up as a small demonstration project only and be fully evaluated before its concepts were more widely introduced into the school . |
| 16 | The departure of occupying forces was recommended and a new commission , the UN Commission on Korea ( UNCOK ) , was set up as a permanent body charged with helping to attain unification . |
| 17 | Operation Gemini was set up as a high profile battle against criminals . |
| 18 | AA was set up as a monthly hardcopy abstracts journal in 1954 and an online database was introduced in 1986 containing material from 1980 to date , giving easy access to abstracts spanning the discipline of analytical chemistry . |
| 19 | What it can offer will be illustrated in case studies below , but can be summed up as a general information carrier , providing instant access to a variety of information which is more up to date than printed sources an educational service , providing information on new technology , higher education , careers , educational developments and new educational products a gateway service , providing access to remote databases such as ECCTIS ( see below ) a service providing access to other viewdata systems via Bulletin ( W.M. ) , Monitel a mailbox facility , allowing electronic communication between schools and other users and providing contact points for school librarians and teachers a software service providing telesoftware and enabling users to obtain access to software via Prestel Education and Micronet a microviewdata service , allowing users to create their own databases through Prestel |
| 20 | On the available evidence , the council 's policy after Edward 's death can best be summed up as a strenuous effort to preserve the balance of power established in the king 's second reign , and this was surely ( pace Mancini ) in response to the dead king 's own wishes . |
| 21 | On the available evidence , the council 's policy after Edward 's death can best be summed up as a strenuous effort to preserve the balance of power established in the king 's second reign , and this was surely ( pace Mancini ) in response to the dead king 's own wishes . |
| 22 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 23 | Steve was brought up as a strict Baptist . |
| 24 | ‘ I was brought up as an extreme Conservative with strong Imperialistic ideas , ’ he told his interrogators in 1945 . |
| 25 | Mankind will have to accept that this product of immense periods of time was indisputably in existence inside the evolutionary story , waiting to be taken up as the only source available from which could be acquired a foundation for the God that man must ultimately have , and which was not completely imaginary , and therefore subject to unlimited interpretations . |
| 26 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |
| 27 | The snow on the path in front of us was flawless ; behind , it was as churned up as a freshly-harrowed field . |
| 28 | The quayside had as many ferries lined up as a Greek port , big-snouted vessels bound for Orkney or the Shetland islands , and perhaps distant Ophir . |
| 29 | CANNON and Ball have been lined up as the latest Christmas cracker for North-East pantomime fans . |
| 30 | RUNRIG are lined up as the main attraction of the second Scottish Fleadh , a day-long celebration of Celtic music , to be held on Glasgow Green on 5 June . |