Example sentences of "up as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It starts normally , but ends up as a DYPP ( also known as a sinus(oid) scroller ) . |
| 2 | One day over breakfast , the chaplain of Magdalen , Adam Fox , opened his newspaper and saw that Sir Edmund Chambers was being put up as a candidate for the Chair of Poetry . |
| 3 | So secure was this control , I was told , that if a monkey in a red jacket was put up as a candidate it would be elected . |
| 4 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 5 | ‘ I learned this fact , ’ continued the great man , ‘ from Mrs Reed , the kind lady who took care of her after her parents ’ death and brought her up as a member of the family . |
| 6 | Sophie was married to an eccentric Regular soldier , and lived in the east-end of the city , whilst Mary , being a child of school-age , was being brought up as a daughter . |
| 7 | They do n't just prove that it 's dangerous to fly , ski , skateboard or dress up as a Mutant Hero Ninja Turtle and try to act tough on the Northern Line late on a Saturday night . |
| 8 | Some of those taking ; part were already in costume : Jilly Fox was wearing what looked like an Iranian chadour , contrived from a sheet , Karen Gray was dressed up as a nurse , and Bob Saxby who taught pottery was encased in a Michelin-man spacesuit which he claimed was an Arctic explorer 's sleeping bag . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | From thence he fled to France , escaping detection by dressing up as a servant . |
| 11 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 12 | He sets Ireland up as a type of extreme place — a place possibly cursed in its very soil or divinely reserved to act as a scourge for England . |
| 13 | Whether he wants to get F M onto the agenda and firm that up as a date for a meeting . |
| 14 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |
| 15 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 16 | In 58 ‘ your slave ’ , ‘ your vassal ’ is ready to swallow any insult or neglect , the poem concluding : The second-person pronouns come so thick and fast here that we can not miss the bitter criticism of the Friend setting himself up as a law unto himself , becoming so entirely obsessed with his own pleasures that he betrays their relationship . |
| 17 | The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) . |
| 18 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 19 | Patrick Dempsey , who looks like Sean Penn without a scowl , plays Randy Bodek , a pizza delivery boy who ends up as a toy boy serving Beverly Hills women with ‘ extra anchovies ’ . |
| 20 | Maggie reckons her family should be help up as a warning to everyone who has never got round to it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When we dressed up as a bottle |
| 23 | We were , yes , cos that 's when I went on to the crane driving in for a crane and got it you see , that 's why I finished up as a crane driver until I went stevedoring . |
| 24 | She then tried a government training course in shorthand and typing but , lacking confidence , ended up as a filing clerk . |
| 25 | It had been popularized in lesbian feminist circles by the American writer , Adrienne Rich , and was taken up as a way of understanding the common ground between the very different oppressions experienced by lesbians and gay men of different classes , different ages , different races , etc . |
| 26 | They were also set up as a way of avoiding off-site referral . |
| 27 | Samantha , 29 , has been signed up as a reporter for ITV 's London news bulletins from January . |
| 28 | Dress up as a gorilla and chase people down Sunset Strip . |
| 29 | Dress up as a gorilla and chase people down Sunset Strip . |
| 30 | When the couple had gone upstairs to bed , Mr Stephens packed his bag for the next day 's outing , bolted the doors firmly — for many of the men stayed in Cockermouth drinking for three or four days and would roam the streets at night looking for somewhere to sleep — and then , as if to atone for those first designs he had on Emily , he picked out Silas Marner from his bookshelf and wrapped it up as a present for her . |