Example sentences of "[noun sg] up to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the idea of killing everything in sight is a little primitive and shows the storyline up to be a little on the shallow side , but hey , it 's light relief from the hectic world outside . |
| 2 | ‘ I — we — thought it a good idea at the time , with the late closing and it so hard to get people off the premises — and all the cleaning up to be done afterwards … ‘ |
| 3 | Yes they 're more sophisticated , and what I 'm concerned about is whether we have the right back up to be able to sustain a war erm there at present the war is more like a blitzkrieg which the Germans used at the start of the second world war |
| 4 | ‘ It was good quality stuff , good to work on and I gradually worked my way up to being one of the house engineers and it took off from there . ’ |
| 5 | Because I 'm afraid of being the victim I 'll bubble my way up to being either the rescuer or the persecutor . |