Example sentences of "up [noun] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one time Dalgety was up 16p as Elf Aquitaine , the French oil group , confirmed it had formed a joint company with Australian Robert Holmes a Court to hold a 5.5 per cent stake in the Dalgety agricultural and food group . |
| 2 | 71000 will be returning to Didcot Railway centre shortly after , for winter maintenance , and to take up duties as part of the Southern pool of locomotives for the SLOA Winter programme , details will be announced shortly , although a number of trips using 71000 have been pencilled in . |
| 3 | During the 1860s a few isolated attempts to form close-knit organizations overlapped with more widespread efforts to develop educational circles for workers and to take up posts as village teachers or medical assistants in order to establish links with the peasants . |
| 4 | Six years later their ruler Guntiarius joined Goar , ruler of the Alans , to set up Jovinus as emperor . |
| 5 | Set up needles as diagram 1 . |
| 6 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , responding to increasing domestic and international pressure , was reportedly instrumental in compelling Ramon Aguirre Velázquez , a PRI hardliner who had officially won 55 per cent of the vote in Guanajuato , to make the unprecedented announcement on Aug. 29 that he would not take up office as state governor . |