Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] up as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Peugeot 106 XR 1.1 car put up as a special incentive to enter the event was won by Golf Monthly reader , Tom Allwyn Davies from Ipswich . |
| 2 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 3 | PS I do n't think you should marry that young man in the back row of the chorus , it 's too soon after going to bed with your horse dressed up as a Praetorian Guard . |
| 4 | The pads can be inserted into an undergravel set up as a gravel tidy without interrupting the free flow of water . |
| 5 | Jim was also unbeaten in Scotland in all other events and as a result ended up as the official No 1 in Scotland . |
| 6 | The employee set up as a tailor within the relevant area within two years of leaving his employment . |
| 7 | After staging several provocative manoeuvres in Vilnius , the newly arrived Soviet paratroopers on Jan. 11 occupied the headquarters of the Lithuanian Defence Council , a government department set up as a first step towards establishing an independent Lithuanian army . |
| 8 | Here the pope had the advantage over the emperor for , with the removal of the empire to the West , Roman law ceased to be declared and the Roman law dried up as a living law . |
| 9 | I decided this had to be done puristically and had a young boy dressed up as a girl in the play . |
| 10 | The Marie Lloyd costume she was wearing : buttoned boots , feather boa , black-straw , flower-trimmed hat , gave her the appearance of a child dressed up as an adult . |
| 11 | News of Clive Gregson and Christine Collister splitting up as a couple sadly signalled the end , too , of a fruitful artistic union . |
| 12 | David Holmes of Dorling Kindersley fielded the accusation of ‘ unfair play ’ : ‘ The DK Family Library is a business set up as a networking operation , along the lines of Tupperware , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 14 | The Tigers boycotted elections in November last year for the North-Eastern Provincial Council , the new body set up as a compromise to demands for self-rule , saying that it did not fulfil the aspirations of the Tamil people . |
| 15 | That was no horseman , but only the farmer 's wife dressed up as a man ! " |
| 16 | His name cropped up as an acquaintance of Mills . ’ |
| 17 | The winner will train at a top agency , have a camera test and then be offered the chance to sign up as a professional model . |
| 18 | There may be other occasions when some members of the clan dress up as the totem animal , in ritual dancing , for example . |
| 19 | Then he discovers the bar owner doubles up as the town sheriff and that gunman Lyle has just given him a lift . |
| 20 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 21 | A real love song is infinitely more appropriate for Christmas than a trashy song cooked up as a commercial gimmick . |
| 22 | But it is not an offence to dress up as a policeman unless the uniform is used for personal gain . |
| 23 | The southern sky lit up as the Clydebridge works dumped its slag and the colours of fire and smoke drifted among the faint stars . |
| 24 | It 's not unusual for blood pressure to go up as a result of stress , so if you have a high reading at some point , your doctor or midwife might suggest you rest and try to relax for a while before they check it again . |
| 25 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
| 26 | BANK Officer Noel Crossley of Chapel-en-le-Frith Branch dressed up as a tomato on Comic Relief Day and went on a tour of the town with a collection bucket . |
| 27 | Dichotic listening thus appeared to offer a comparatively simple , non-invasive technique for determining the speech dominant hemisphere in neurologically intact subjects as well as in neurosurgical patients , since the side of speech dominance shows up as an advantage for digits presented to the contralateral ear . |
| 28 | They are as follows : the Cabinet Committee system grew up as the load on the Cabinet itself became too great . |
| 29 | A murmur of assent went up as the audience shifted and rustled again , and Gerrard turned back to Briant . |
| 30 | It is possible to play with the distance between the position taken up as a reader and the meaning the text seems to offer . |