Example sentences of "[to-vb] up to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE are times when you have to stand up to be counted and that time is here for the British Press . |
| 2 | It would have been hard for the toughest , most stable and secure character to stand up to being dream symbol to the world . |
| 3 | There is also a natural reluctance to own up to being a ‘ failure ’ , so the students who do vanish probably include a higher percentage of unemployed people than do those who respond to the universities ' questions . |
| 4 | He faxes me , not to own up to being Clark Kent , but to draw attention to the fact that he is giving his surplus Y-fronts to Mary Loudon ( author of Nuns Unveiled , Chatto it says here ) for onward transmission to the homeless . |
| 5 | I do n't want my son to grow up to be a sexual pervert because of lessons he 's learned at school . |
| 6 | ‘ No , but then how do you ever know that your dear little baby is n't going to grow up to be tall and elegant ? ’ she quipped with huge enjoyment . |
| 7 | Otherwise children , without those , grow up physically , psychologically damaged and the purpose of Save The Children Fund is to work to give children the chance of a better childhood and the chance to grow up to be adults who wo n't repeat the sins of their forefathers . |
| 8 | Yes the they were much the same as they are now but er , of course the one nearest was the er spraying hanger , that 's where they used to build the Swallow side-cars , the main office building there 's a large hanger with large sliding doors at the back of there which used to house the erm experimental department for the Harvard Aircraft and erm they used to operate the flight gang from there getting the planes ready to go up to be actually tested , and then the next hanger up was very much er starting from scratch and finishing the aircraft structurally you know . |
| 9 | I suspect budding essayists and technicians will continue to turn up to be educated ; those others , who find lessons a humiliation because they are daily exposed and defined as dullards , will not . |