Example sentences of "[vb -s] up as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon an object reaches meteorite size , and then finishes up as a planet-sized object , all within a few thousand years . |
| 2 | And Inderjit Singh , of the Council of Sikh Gurdwaras , said : ‘ Handsworth always finishes up as a chaotic dump and the traders are scared . |
| 3 | In truth , her performance in winning at Edgbaston probably told us far more about how she is likely to make out when she tees up as a professional than could ever have been gauged from an isolated week among those playing for pay . |
| 4 | Some of the tracks have been available already — if you bought the limited edition live versions of the singles ‘ Stop ’ and ‘ Shivering Sand ’ — but ‘ IT ’ still holds up as a worthwhile representation of the Megas ' consistent live set ; in full and in earnest . |
| 5 | One is a man , Sergio Malandro , physically a cross between a lorry driver and an Italian gigolo , who dresses up as a five year-old in short trousers . |
| 6 | M56 is not at all prominent , but shows up as a faint patch of light . |
| 7 | French towns , large or small , have a raffish , down-at-heel quality which shows up as a relaxed attitude to their urban fabric . |
| 8 | When a foot is damaged , the volley of nerve impulses produced by the damage and arriving in the spinal cord sets up a long lasting increase of excitability which shows up as an exaggerated flexion reflex , among other changes . |
| 9 | From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome . |
| 10 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 11 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 12 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 13 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 14 | The story may in fact be read as an allegory in which the detective 's attempt to solve a series of crimes by the use of logic represents man 's efforts to decipher the meaning of the universe , but he himself ends up as the final victim , undone by his misplaced confidence in his intellect and baffled by a confusing world that makes a mockery of his pretensions to explain it . |
| 15 | Jeanne Tripplehorn — who you may care to remember , rather laughably , was the one who ‘ dun it ’ in ‘ Basic Instinct ’ — is McDeere 's wife , while Holly Hunter , who has been rather quiet of late , turns up as a lovesick secretary . |
| 16 | The height of style The unique design of this foldable resin highchair means that you can set it a seven different height positions and it also doubles up as a low chair with removable tray . |
| 17 | Focusing on the small-time hood ( Danny Aiello , the pizza parlour boss of Do The Right Thing ) who shot Oswald , this winds up as a daft romance . |