Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not brought up to be a major figure in political life , let alone a ruler . |
| 2 | Their daughter , Pepita , grew up to be a healthy , happy girl in St Vincent . |
| 3 | For Pat junior has grown up to be a hunky , muscular , six foot two . |
| 4 | And I think we we have grown up to be a noisy |
| 5 | All the same , he grew up to be a famous philosopher as well as a famous scientist , while I … |
| 6 | I hope he can grow up to be a normal young man in spite of what has happened to me . |
| 7 | Two is set up to be a second clean channel , while three offers a ‘ crunch rhythm ’ facility and so an overdrive rotary joins the Lo and Hi EQ here . |
| 8 | If he does n't reform he will grow up to be a professional criminal . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The York race is boiling up to be a good looking contest which is great , ’ Kauntze said . |
| 10 | as if her thoughts had been transmitted to her sister , Dorothy said , ‘ I know my son would have grown up to be a fine , good-looking man . |
| 11 | I do n't want my son to grow up to be a sexual pervert because of lessons he 's learned at school . |
| 12 | When she was a small child people had stopped in the street asking why this little girl with the blonde , almost white , curls had never been chosen for the Pears soap advertisement … the one where it said , ‘ Growing up to be a beautiful lady ’ . |
| 13 | Derek grew up to be a careful young man , never prizing any possession too much and desperately afraid of making a mistake . |
| 14 | Not unnaturally a young man thus taken on might grow up to be a shrewd and skilful miner , and perhaps at some future date form his own gang or pare . |
| 15 | Tabkay says he does n't feel he has given anything up to be a Buddhist monk . |
| 16 | Parents have such high hopes for their offspring and then they grow up to be a big disappointment . |
| 17 | This , however , turns out to be a polite fiction . |
| 18 | She had given her kisses to a clown , he wrote , and was much gratified when MacBride turned out to be a drunken bully . |
| 19 | Matthew : Matthew makes Judas out to be a greedy man who asked for money . |
| 20 | It comes from an American baseball player named Thompson , purchased at colossal expense by a Japanese team , who , when he arrived , turned out to be a complete dud , incapable even of hitting the ball . |
| 21 | ‘ This is turning out to be a complete disaster for Darlington . |
| 22 | After lengthy farewells Rachel followed David across the grounds to the Rosemount wing , which turned out to be a new building that had only recently been opened . |
| 23 | Expecting something to be bad can turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy and thinking positively about labour may reduce the amount of pain relief needed . |
| 24 | An old tea pot with a cracked lid turned out to be a present Granny had received on her wedding day and so , of course , it had to be kept . |
| 25 | The man he described as ‘ the top Russian espionage agent in the United States — Alger Hiss 's boss ’ turned out to be a blameless university professor and China expert , Owen Lattimore , but it did not matter . |
| 26 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 27 | ‘ We are dealing with the assumed possession by the officers of government of what turned out to be a void authority . |
| 28 | He had turned out to be a lame duck and limped out of her life . |
| 29 | They were waiting for them inside the restaurant , which turned out to be a smallish place that somehow managed to achieve an atmosphere of casualness and intimacy at the same time . |
| 30 | This turned out to be a straightforward problem to address by classical neurophysiological methods , and from then on the research strategy involved a series of reductive steps . |