Example sentences of "up as [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 We paraded the following night as it was getting dark , the parade ground lit up by flaming torches with four tanks lined up as a backdrop to our ceremony .
2 Maggie reckons her family should be help up as a warning to everyone who has never got round to it .
3 Mr Recorder Paul Worsley adjourned the case until Friday for social inquiry reports to be prepared because he was considering locking Largue up as a warning to other young drivers .
4 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 .
5 But he emphasised that he would not put himself up as a challenger to Mrs Thatcher .
6 He went up as a commoner to Wadham College , Oxford , in 1858 , and took fourth-class honours in law and modern history in 1862 .
7 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 .
8 In Sweden employers ' associations were set up as a counter-mobilisation to the growing organisational strength and apparent centralisation of the trade union movement .
9 And I 'm not setting that up as a record to be broken or a
10 The UK system is being put up as a model to the International council of Chemical Industry Associations .
11 In 1873 a new lime works was established at Halling followed in 1878 by a cement works known as Halling Manor Lime and Cement Works which was set up as an addition to those already operated by Hilton , Anderson and Company at Upnor and Faversham .
12 Earlier , on April 11 , the UN Council for Namibia , set up as an alternative to South Africa 's illegal rule , holding its first meeting on Namibian soil , voted to dissolve itself and to hand over its assets to the government .
13 Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals .
14 Its experience and its entire organisation and operation are frequently held up as an example to the rest of the world .
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