Example sentences of "up [art] [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least he put up the dislocation as a hypothesis in a scientific paper . |
| 2 | If the manager can dress up the equipment as a way to increase efficiency , then he is far more likely to win his case than if he presents the hardware as a means of winning a political battle . |
| 3 | The humble people bring up the hero as their own child , eventually the hero realizes through a dream , through a prophecy , a visitation or something that he is not the child of his humble parents , but the find out who his real parents were , and then returns and arduous struggles and eventually gains his rightful place . |
| 4 | When , in the Republican Party 's presidential primaries , Patrick Buchanan took up the endowment as a weapon to wield against George Bush , Mr Frohnmayer 's stay was over . |
| 5 | She swallowed convulsively , and tightened the belt of her Burberry , turning up the collar as if she was preparing to weather a blizzard before closing numb fingers round the hand-grip of her bag . |
| 6 | Having gone down with the monarchy in the 1640s and learnt from that experience that its fortunes were closely dependent on those of the crown , the established church was more than ever determined to shore up the monarchy as a means of guaranteeing its own survival . |
| 7 | The Exhibitors Film Exchange found the theme , which has the heiress played by Charlotte Walker learning ‘ what life is and what are the actual conditions under which many of her fellow human beings live ’ , plausible and summed up the photoplay as a ‘ strong arraignment of existing working conditions in certain localities ’ . |
| 8 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 9 | One can sum up the position as being that a restraint will be invalid if it is imposed in order to prevent competition simpliciter or the use of personal skill and knowledge of the employee . |
| 10 | In other words , rather than introducing other , more persuasive factors , he merely sets up the court as the arbiter of a medical issue , and decides that , of all the criteria involved , the crucial ones for determining how the individual is to be regarded by the law are the biological criteria . |
| 11 | John Lowe 's mental attainments at the age of 18 were so great that his father saw nothing incongruous in advising him to take up the law as a profession . |
| 12 | Smith , who summed up the philosophy as one of ‘ Discipline and Religion ’ , hoped that by emphasizing masculinity and the becoming of ‘ Christian men ’ , the boys would come to see the ‘ manliness of Christianity ’ and that this would counter their tendency to regard it as ‘ effeminate and weak ’ , an idea which seemed to be too popular . |
| 13 | 1.17 In latent defect cases the onus of proof is on the party setting up the defect as a defence ( Henderson v Henry E Jenkins & Sons and Evans [ 1970 ] AC 282 ) . |
| 14 | Adoption means that the person can bring up the child as their own . |
| 15 | Nigel Sears will be taking up the role as permanent coach to the Cellnet Challenger Squad , whilst John Paish will be working with the Achiever Squad . |
| 16 | But in this case , Everett argued , Guinness Mahon could take up the slack as the company fully expected other investors who had been too slow to meet the deadline to come in . |
| 17 | He cinched his towel around his hips , then bent and scooped up the jewellery as if it were junk . |
| 18 | The chairman of the Tidy Up Middlesbrough Public Action Campaign helped children from Caldicotes School , Spencerbeck , to spruce up the area as part of Environment Week . |
| 19 | It is impossible that Matthew was mistaken or that he simply made up the verse as a climax to his birth story hoping that his readers would not notice . |
| 20 | To put nature in its proper place , they have set up the exhibition as a living demonstration of the newest thinking on the interrelationship of the human and natural realms . |
| 21 | Daphne Statham , director of NISW , summed up the debate as : whether services should be free or not ; joint registration ; equity in geographic provision ; and the need for a reconsideration of the differences between social and health care . |
| 22 | He had wanted Lesley to have an abortion , but because he feels committed to Lesley he is prepared to bring up the baby as if she were his own . |
| 23 | As well as increasing the maximum number of users per server to 500 from 300 , the new version enables them to bridge to OS/2 , High Performance File System , write-once optical disks and other devices by setting up the connection as a LANtastic shared resource . |
| 24 | Mr Vassiliou , 61 , seeking a second five-year term , helped to draw up the formula as a basis for negotiation which would bring down the dividing ‘ green line ’ . |
| 25 | Troop Sergeant Haines brought up the rear as the raiders moved towards the Old Entrance lock bridge ( 'G' ) but had first to swing north round the buildings on the east of the basin . |
| 26 | Mum pushed the door open wide and marched up the room as if she owned it . |
| 27 | It was decided to set up the PMIS as part of an " on-line " system ( directly connected to the computer ) using a computer terminal for input and output . |
| 28 | Erm so he set up the corner as a darkroom and started doing playing about with his with his own black and white printing . |
| 29 | It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function . |
| 30 | His field was bio-improvements engineering , and he had been placed in charge of some hush-hush military project that had racked him up a rep as the Frankenstein of his generation . |