Example sentences of "[verb] up as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder . |
| 3 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder . |
| 4 | He spent 18 years working for Ford , ending up as manager of its Dearborn assembly plant . |
| 5 | There were shocked protests but the argument degenerated into a disgruntled murmur as people reflected that to cross Riley might mean ending up as Harbury 's assistant on the Girlie patrol . |
| 6 | Another common trait is for the model to pitch up as speed increases , making it difficult , if not impossible , to maintain a shallow dive as an entry to an aerobatic manoeuvre . |
| 7 | The chlorine is picked up as aerosols droplets containing salt for example from breaking waves taken up by the atmosphere , carried over the land , rained down again , gets into the rivers and ends up back in the sea . |
| 8 | Specifically , most of the items that we discussed are picked up as agenda items throughout this particular agenda . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Quite chilly in the east as well , but the temperature picking up as cloud and occasional rain spread from the south west . |
| 11 | Fonts created from outline masters should be better quality than those built up as bitmaps . |
| 12 | Genes controlling coat pattern are carried on the X chromosome and if one X carries a gene that gives colour and the other X carries an inactive gene , the different patches of tissue containing the different inactivated X chromosomes show up as patches of different colours . |
| 13 | The variations are represented by contour lines so that areas of high magnetism appear as hills and areas of low magnetism show up as valleys . |
| 14 | ‘ And a few generations later , ’ Haverford went jotting on , ‘ she must have turned up as Susanna in Figaro . |
| 15 | And Coren , dressing up as Moses and leading 200 innocent bystanders into the Promised Land . |
| 16 | If he really wants to ensure that ring-rustiness does n't get him this time and given his limited comeback action , would n't he seek more serious preparatory work than dressing up as Santa Claus , albeit for charity ? |
| 17 | At that point , she did n't plan to be a singer , though she did enjoy dressing up as Olivia Newton John and singing into her hairbrush in front of the mirror . |
| 18 | Looking at it and the bleak shore of Flotta beyond , the memories came flooding back : pink gins before Sunday lunch at twopence a throw ; dressing up as Tartars and Eskimos and Bedouins for Tribal parties ; cinema shows where the reels were laced up in the wrong order ; darts competitions in the wardroom flat ; early winter morning torpedo firings in the Flow , very dark and cold ; walks to Longhope for fresh eggs , or fishing for sea-trout in the bay ; piping the admiral as we passed the headquarters ship and eased our way down to Switha Gate bound for distant waters , the captain on the compass platform with cap at an angle , elbows on hips and gloved hands turned upwards , Spider beside him puffing smoke through a black holder and advising courses to steer ; and then , as the ship adjusted herself to the roll and rhythm of the sea , a last flashing message from the signal station at Hoxa Head ( now vandalized and abandoned ) , as it would be the first on our return , days or weeks later . |
| 19 | Perhaps involving you know , the leaders of the village becoming servants and servants becoming leaders , or women dressing up as men or you know happy . |
| 20 | Who would finish up as victor ludorum ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Flaws , even those under the surface will show up as anomalies under an ultra violet lamp . |
| 24 | On this once again major erosion surfaces should show up as convexities . |
| 25 | It follows from what has been said so far that , as stable norms can be observed through analysis of linguistic patterns , change in progress will show up as violations of the expected ‘ normal ’ patterns . |
| 26 | In the theatre , he argues , there is ( a ) an internal dramatist — who makes up the characters and their actions ; ( b ) an internal actor — who represents to the reader for his benefit the actions he has made up as dramatist ; and , finally , ( c ) an internal audience . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm the one who 's wondering why whites are turning up as zombis — and whites who have no official record , at that . |
| 28 | The report was drawn up as part of the evidence in the recently completed court case against Exxon [ see ED no. 45 ] . |
| 29 | People working for the EC — which outlaws discrimination — faced an upper age-limit of 35 for starting work in many posts in Community institutions , said the report , drawn up as part of the European Year of Older People . |
| 30 | Sue asked Derek to a girls ' night out and he turned up as Diane . |