Example sentences of "[vb pp] up as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there he was , caught in a trap of his own making — being nice to a woman he did n't like , and mean to one he did , and as mixed up as a schoolboy in short trousers . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | I could either meet him near there or he 'd have me picked up as a material witness and see how I enjoyed sharing a cell with Jack Scamp . |
| 4 | Wo n't get picked up as a suspected drunk-driver , he 'll look like a rep getting an early start . ’ |
| 5 | Is there anything that you think needs to be changed , something that you 've picked up as a result of your study you , you feel ought to be changed in the school system ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The French then developed a sexpartite vault , wherein the intermediate pier is carried up as a vaulting shaft to carry a rib which transfers the vaulting compartment into six . |
| 8 | These can be grown up as a pure bacterial growth in a veterinary laboratory . |
| 9 | The pretenders became genuine contenders by showing how much they have grown up as a team . |
| 10 | It is built up as a result of encountering these words in print as one is learning to read , though of course new word forms will be added throughout adult life as they are encountered . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All this data is then written up as a technical report , and forms part of the information stored as an archive for future reference . |
| 13 | The courses comprise two principal elements , coursework with examinations chosen to suit the circumstances and practice of the discipline and department concerned , followed by independent work which is normally written up as a dissertation . |
| 14 | Again she was plied with whisky , but this time in hot water and sweetened with brown sugar ; she was then led to the sitting-room couch that had been made up as a bed for her . |
| 15 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 16 | You will need the same heading allowance as for pinch pleats if it is to be made up as a curtain heading , but for making a valance you will need only 1.5cm ( ½in ) for the heading allowance . |
| 17 | They were all made up as a batch were n't they ? |
| 18 | The theme he hammered in yesterday 's speech was that here was an administration increasingly losing its grip , its miracles turning to dross , the ‘ Thatcher Revolution ’ shown up as a fraud . |
| 19 | Talk of long-term outperformance by bricks and mortar is shown up as a myth . |
| 20 | Despite a bright start , Liverpool were eventually shown up as a brittle , spiritless outfit whose heads dropped when the roll of the dice went against them . |
| 21 | However , when the sexual behaviour of thousands of gay men has been studied over a number of years , sucking has n't shown up as a risk . |
| 22 | This has n't shown up as a past need ’ . |
| 23 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 24 | There was no local version of the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum ( Rights of Individuals ) , the eleventh-century code of legal and rural practices drawn up as a guide for the country as a whole . |
| 25 | Deliberate destruction of the environment in times of war should be declared a war crime and a Geneva Convention on the protection of nature in times of war should be drawn up as a matter of urgency . |
| 26 | A report in the Sunday Times last week , confirming the Sunday Life story of July 11 , revealed the plans were drawn up as a result of an intelligence source in the IRA who said the organisation had developed a ‘ peace party ’ led by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness . |
| 27 | He was bought up as a Catholic and a socialist and was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and Peterhouse , Cambridge , where he gained a first class degree in history . |
| 28 | He was as psyched up as a footballer about to step out on to the field on Super Bowl Sunday — but he would be sustaining this level of feverish anticipation all winter . |
| 29 | Florida was opened up as a winter resort in the 1890s by Henrys Flagler and Plant , both millionaires and railroad company owners . |
| 30 | Now markets have opened up as a result of making desks ; we now design and produce complete study and library schemes , designed to fit . |