Example sentences of "up to be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject . |
| 2 | I was brought up to be useful to a man . |
| 3 | I have grown up to be distrustful of men , doubtful of my own goodness , extremely resentful and explosively angry . |
| 4 | When parents are faithful to each other , it 's more likely that their children will grow up to be true to each other , too . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |