Example sentences of "[verb] up as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These phenomena show up as excess noise , distortion and reduced tube life . |
| 2 | Mindful of Ace 's warning , she kept her cool , but it was n't easy , and the final straw was when Jason himself turned up as chief fuel technician . |
| 3 | The next stage of the work , says Dainty , is to eliminate a layer phenomenon called ionic motion , which shows up as slight hysteresis in the capacitance/voltage plot of the layer . |
| 4 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 5 | ‘ The county council has been working there recently , putting up fencing all along it because it 's soon to be opened up as official footpath on a new part of the Teesdale Way , ’ said Mrs Brown . |
| 6 | The quota system , which critics claim permits poached ivory to enter legal trade , was set up as African elephant numbers fell from an estimated 1.3 million in 1979 to about 600,000 today . |
| 7 | They show how the name of the root package can be supplied to the programs from the DCL command line and how the remainder of the parameters can be set up as in-line code . |
| 8 | They show how the name of the root package can be supplied to the programs from the DCL command line and how the remainder of the parameters can be set up as in-line code . |
| 9 | Botswana has no foreign debt and a stable currency — the pula ( about three to the Pounds ) — and its tourism policy can be summed up as high cost , low volume . |
| 10 | Still , ‘ Arry Boy was good enough to dress up as Old Father Time for our exclusive picture . |
| 11 | Most barn owls eat a variety of small mammals and birds every night , and tell-tale remnants of their meal turn up as undigested bone , hair and feather in regurgitated pellets . |
| 12 | After serving an apprenticeship in Formula Three , he had recently been signed up as second driver by Dalgety , a leading Formula One team . |
| 13 | She has been signed up as front-page girl for Vogue and a host of other glitzy US fashion magazines . |
| 14 | Soft Machine produced a motorcycle — a considerable feat in view of the human congestion — which was driven amidst the quaking pillars and balconies before being wired for sound , and revved up as additional accompaniment . |
| 15 | Young women would be seized from their home tents and taken to Russian fortresses where they would often be sold , to end up as common law wives or concubines . |
| 16 | Partners who divorce are more likely to end up as local authority tenants even if they were previously owner-occupiers ( Holmans , Nandy , and Brown 1987 ) . |
| 17 | In 1980 McDevitt and an accomplice dressed up as Federal Express employees and set out for the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls , New York . |
| 18 | Instead of subsiding now that he was no longer touching her , the disturbance he had caused deepened as she looked at him and understood that the warning was a personal one , merely dressed up as professional advice . |
| 19 | It is a kind of debunk manquée , not the whole hog sort that keeps you on the edge of your chair waiting for yet more astounding revelations , but in a snider kind — like those Sunday supplement interviews which are dressed up as journalistic frankness , but whose real purpose is barb and innuendo . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It would be another tragedy for the able child from the non-affluent home , but there are several places where parents will favour abandoning the state sector and setting up as economical day schools . ’ |
| 21 | You shut up as well dog ! |
| 22 | What he summed up as amateur crime . |
| 23 | By all accounts Selina was a bright child who ended up as head girl of her secondary school in Guisborough near Middlesbrough . |
| 24 | Laboratory tests revealed that only 32 per cent of the nitrogen content ended up as organic nitrogen compounds . |
| 25 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |