Example sentences of "set [pron] up as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little enthusiasm , then , as the paper moved towards the alien financial world of the City to set itself up as a public limited company . |
| 2 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 3 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 4 | He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 5 | ‘ Another particularly odious corruption is the scholar who sets himself up as a unique authority on a certain painter , with the specific knowledge that , in cornering the market , his opinion will be essential for anyone dealing with works by that artist . |
| 6 | Ron Rooney objects to Dr Mitchell setting himself up as a moral censor ( Chem . |
| 7 | The unconscious seems involved in a deep way , in part due to their setting themselves up as a Chosen People of God the Father . |
| 8 | Leftwich moved to London and set himself up as a wholesale confectioner , with outlets in Fleet Street and Kingston upon Thames . |
| 9 | He set himself up as a one-man cult . |
| 10 | On July 12 , 1989 , the Grey Panthers , formerly a group of some 25,000 members within the Greens reflecting the interests of older citizens , split away and set itself up as a new political party called the Greys ( die Grauen ) . |