Example sentences of "be [verb] up to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft-sided cases are more likely to be damaged when they 're stacked up to be transported |
| 2 | ‘ And they 're growing up to be quite American , ’ Nellie went on . |
| 3 | FISH are lining up to be caught at Moreton Mere and look set to provide great fishing in Saturday 's Octoplus Echo Spring Classic Final . |
| 4 | After the return to civilian rule , the newly formed state radio corporations , which had been set up to be independent of Federal Government authority , were immediately subjected to local political control . |
| 5 | There are some problems which are set up to be impossible to solve . |
| 6 | We are set up to be competitive for the size and shape of projects that we are shooting for and the industries we are targeting . |
| 7 | I did n't want to hurt their feelings , having been brought up to be polite , so I tried to look happy and muttered something about Helen playing the piano very well . |
| 8 | I had been brought up to be a hero . |
| 9 | Interrupt — difficult to do if you 've been brought up to be polite , but necessary to learn . |
| 10 | I 've always been brought up to be domesticated — to do the housework and dust and wash up and cook — so it 's a natural instinct really . |
| 11 | She had been brought up to be thrifty and careful . |
| 12 | Others have focused on the socialization process through which girls are brought up to be gentle , passive people who will do as they are told , while boys are brought up to be bolder and more aggressive . |
| 13 | Others have focused on the socialization process through which girls are brought up to be gentle , passive people who will do as they are told , while boys are brought up to be bolder and more aggressive . |
| 14 | And that is why we 're asking for officers to form a report on whether or not a small building maintenance team should be set up to be able to carry out that work . |
| 15 | Again then , knowing these people somewhat , I feel they would follow the apparent winner and South Korea would be gobbled up to be added to the rest of Red Asia . |
| 16 | Conventional male-oriented values are buried in the very foundations of sociology and have to be dug up to be seen ( but not believed ) . |
| 17 | Announcing the successful bids for the latest round of exploration licences , Energy Minister Tim Eggar said 35 sites nominated by the oil and gas industry had not been put up to be licensed . |
| 18 | But we always put one particular herren what we called the October blue-nosed herren because they never wasted when they were hung up to be smoked . |
| 19 | An older history brought this idea forward to a new era : we were brought up to be simply grateful for being alive , guilty at the fact of our existence . |
| 20 | Of , we were brought up to be polite . |
| 21 | Some months previously , in London , a small film called John and Mary , based on a novella by Mervyn Jones , was being set up to be directed by Anthony Harvey , whose first film . |
| 22 | ‘ We went in and saw two of Quinton 's that been sent up to be shod . |
| 23 | The Destiny launch is shaping up to be a pretty big pow-wow . |
| 24 | But Lennie Lawrence is shaping up to be the complete club manager . |
| 25 | The caravanning life is n't all it 's painted up to be . |
| 26 | It 's shaping up to be an exciting climax to the group and I know Billy Bingham wants to end his managerial career on a high note . ’ |
| 27 | She 's not all the Iron Lady she 's cracked up to be . |
| 28 | He found The Rake 's Progress ‘ perspicacious , witty in spite of its stark drama , and thorough as regards research into the period ’ , but he added that ‘ I 'm afraid it 's not half what it 's cracked up to be . ’ |
| 29 | The movie also has a strong message : that wealth is n't all it 's cracked up to be . |
| 30 | Each room has a colour TV — ideal for checking out if Italian football is as good as it 's cracked up to be . |