Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) television programme , Panorama , broadcast on Nov. 18 , suggested that Waite had been set up as a front man in the arms for hostages deal and helped gather intelligence on the whereabouts of the captors . |
| 3 | By contrast , those who were involved in the new machinery of public credit which had been set up as a result of the financial revolution were doing remarkably well , through their investments in institutions such as the Bank of England and the New East India Company , and from the interest they received on loans to the government . |
| 4 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 5 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 6 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 7 | I had been brought up as a Congregationalist . |
| 8 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 9 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 10 | She was rather young when she married and had been brought up as a lady , so it was another world for her . |
| 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 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These can be grown up as a pure bacterial growth in a veterinary laboratory . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On the available evidence , the council 's policy after Edward 's death can best be summed up as a strenuous effort to preserve the balance of power established in the king 's second reign , and this was surely ( pace Mancini ) in response to the dead king 's own wishes . |
| 17 | On the available evidence , the council 's policy after Edward 's death can best be summed up as a strenuous effort to preserve the balance of power established in the king 's second reign , and this was surely ( pace Mancini ) in response to the dead king 's own wishes . |
| 18 | What it can offer will be illustrated in case studies below , but can be summed up as a general information carrier , providing instant access to a variety of information which is more up to date than printed sources an educational service , providing information on new technology , higher education , careers , educational developments and new educational products a gateway service , providing access to remote databases such as ECCTIS ( see below ) a service providing access to other viewdata systems via Bulletin ( W.M. ) , Monitel a mailbox facility , allowing electronic communication between schools and other users and providing contact points for school librarians and teachers a software service providing telesoftware and enabling users to obtain access to software via Prestel Education and Micronet a microviewdata service , allowing users to create their own databases through Prestel |
| 19 | Note that the price may also be driven up as a consequence of being reproduced ; it is well known , for example , that drawings reproduced on a catalogue 's cover fetch a higher price . |
| 20 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 21 | Hence it was decided that the pathway should be set up as a small demonstration project only and be fully evaluated before its concepts were more widely introduced into the school . |
| 22 | LANtastic is a peer-to-peer system and because the memory requirement of LANtastic is low , each computer on the network can be set up as a server and still function as a regular PC . |
| 23 | The former is making quite a name for itself , as it works well under Windows and as its device driver can be set up as a ‘ printer device ’ within Windows , the output of almost any Windows application that produces output to a printer , can be ‘ diverted ’ and sent as a FAX . |
| 24 | A National Integration Council would be set up as a forum for discussions on these issues . |
| 25 | Wilson also announced that a new Hong Kong Technology Centre was being planned as part of the overall strategy to boost the economy , that an International Business Committee would be set up as a means of tapping the talents of overseas businesspeople for the benefit of the whole community , and that £1,600,000 would be spent to bring pollution under control . |
| 26 | It is sometimes useful to encourage meetings to be set up as a form of ritual . |
| 27 | It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived . |
| 28 | By that time hopefully I 'll be signed up as a crew member . |
| 29 | For another generation , this Covenant was to be held up as a model of political excellence within the Middle East , especially by the Western powers which gave it such approval but which did not have to suffer its consequences . |
| 30 | A low-loading trailer had been fixed up as a platform for the clergy who led the service and the singing . |