Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] reputation as [art] " in BNC.

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1 Many commentators interpreted Aquino 's action as an attempt to revive her reputation as a populist and to distance herself from the charges of nepotism , corruption and incompetence which had been increasingly directed against her government by critics from both the right and the left .
2 Five years later she was to be found lecturing on her expedition to the Gabon , she had climbed Mount Cameroon , and her Travels in West Africa was published to consolidate her reputation as a ‘ fish and fetish ’ expert .
3 Throughout the black ‘ homelands ’ and adjacent African territories of modern Southern Africa the station continues to bear its reputation as the beginning of the migrant trail to labour in the ‘ white ’ economy .
4 For all those years Adolph Brückner had guarded his bloody loot and built his reputation as an art lover around it .
5 However , this year Mildred was older and hopefully wiser ( at any rate she was more full of good intentions than ever ) and she was quite determined to lose her reputation as the worst witch in the school .
6 Chiswick , at about that time , was enjoying its reputation as a healthy environment which one resident , Dr. W. Rose recommended to many people including Thomas Bentley , the partner to Josiah Wedgwood , and the manager of that famous Staffordware depot at Chelsea .
7 Big Healey made its reputation as a rally car — here shown on 1963 Alpine rally — but most cars were sold to the US
8 But it was an era when Belfast was building its reputation as an industrial centre .
9 This had brought Nevzorov international media attention because of a suggested link to mafia-style organized crime and public expressions of concern from Gorbachev , but increasingly there were suspicions that Nevzorov worked for the KGB ( State Security Committee ) , and that the KGB had staged the shooting to enhance his reputation as an heroic investigative reporter .
10 Tel reached into a desk drawer , confirming his reputation as the fastest cheque-book east of Chancery Lane .
11 I know he 's got his reputation as a good teacher to keep up , but that does n't matter to me , I 'm different , I 'm not like this soft lot down here , my folks came from the North , descended from the Vikings , and I do n't want to be liked , I do n't want to be good , I do n't want to be in the football team , or a useful member of anything , I do n't want to know .
12 On his way home to Brest , sailing north-about round Ireland , Jones confirmed his reputation as a maritime Robin Hood by releasing , with a new sail and money in their pockets , some Irish fishermen he had captured , but his arrival back in port , on 8 May 1778 , proved a disappointment , for the French failed to give him the hero 's welcome he had expected .
13 Whittingham 's four-goal blast confirmed his reputation as the most lethal striker outside the Premier League .
14 There was eagerness and excitement in his voice at once , echoing the emotion which must have been obvious in Hornblower 's tone — Hornblower took notice of it , and as he buckled his waistband he reaffirmed his resolution to be more careful how he spoke , for he must regain his reputation as a silent hero .
15 Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits .
16 The man leading the latest inquiry into drug-taking says it confirms our reputation as a nation of substance-abusers .
17 But they advise sparing use of such melodramatic tactics ‘ unless you think you can consistently use your reputation as a high-strung hysteric to your advantage ’ .
18 Roy Castle took over the starring role for the show 's last nine weeks but was worried that some of the language would tarnish his reputation as a family entertainer .
19 Tony Mitchell made a rapid second ascent to keep his reputation as the man who has done everything .
20 Churchill 's support for détente may seem odd in view of his earlier criticisms of the ‘ iron curtain' , but Churchill was concerned at the dangers of global war ( especially after the explosion of hydrogen bombs by America and Russia in 1952 and 1953 ) ; he had hopes of establishing a reputation as a peacemaker , to match his reputation as a war leader ; and he believed Britain could play a major role as the arbiter between Moscow and Washington .
21 His programmes to help the unemployed , to improve working conditions and to aid agriculture established his reputation as a reformer and provided a foretaste of the New Deal .
22 His restoration of St Vigean 's church , Arbroath ( 1871–2 ) , established his reputation as a restorer of taste , scholarliness , and principle .
23 He went on to conduct epidemiological studies of the transmission and variation of several other epidemic diseases , which established his reputation as an authority in this area .
24 Although Stark , uniquely at that date , had experimented with a severe part-Wren , part-Russian neo-baroque at the steeple of his St George 's church , Glasgow ( 1807 ) , his next major design , the Greek Doric Judiciary Buildings in Glasgow 's Saltmarket established his reputation as the pioneer of the Greek revival in Scotland .
25 The Branch has formed a local Management Committee to operate the Lodge on behalf of the Association within agreed guidelines and , judging from the number of applications specifically for The White House , Bexhill-on-Sea will retain its reputation as the retirement centre of the South .
26 The manager has taken to ruining his reputation as a steely-eyed ruler with a fist of iron as the circumstances of Snelders ' non-appearance at the weekend prove — the Dutchman was given compassionate leave to attend the birth of his first child , a son , on Saturday night .
27 Henderson made his reputation as a spokesman for the working classes of Belfast against the economic policies of the Unionist governments of the 1930s .
28 He made his reputation as a speaker almost at once .
29 The torrent of tears became a flood of determination to confirm his reputation as the world 's best young golfer .
30 On the other hand , Merritt 's singing this time justified his reputation as an exponent of this bel canto Heldentenor role .
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