Example sentences of "be [verb] up as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repertoires of schemata are built up as an organism adapts to its environment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In what sounds like computer industry heresy , Gupta Corp , Menlo Park told Reuter that it is looking to higher prices for its more advanced software products to help it achieve sharply higher earnings in 1993 : ‘ Our prices are going up as the functionality and performance of our software increases along with the functionality and performance of personal computer networks , ’ chief executive Umang Gupta said ; the company will introduce two new versions of its SQLWindows 4.0 software later this month ; the standard version at $2,000 , a more advanced one at $3,500 ; he says its only prices going down were for communications routing software . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I had been brought up as a Congregationalist . |
| 10 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was rather young when she married and had been brought up as a lady , so it was another world for her . |
| 13 | The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam , and water was pouring down the panes . |
| 14 | The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired . |
| 15 | Time spent on this may be looked up as an investment in that if essential job elements are identified , then the people involved in the recruitment process will be less inclined to develop the criteria as they go along . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | These can be grown up as a pure bacterial growth in a veterinary laboratory . |
| 20 | When you use these numbers — you will need to use a credit card with Forte — your booking will be logged up as an AEA purchase . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | The project of Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge can be summed up as the attempt to study the relation between knowledge and social structure . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |