Example sentences of "live [adv] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strain of living up to the lofty concept of marriage that they have invented is tiring , at times , and she is a busy woman . |
| 2 | Several schools commented on the importance of involving the whole school in living up to the agreed health policy . |
| 3 | LIVING UP TO THE MACHO IMAGE |
| 4 | Well , I can honestly say it lived up to every good word , every tribute , for despite the event being played out in an unrelenting , warm , monsoon-like downpour , with the playing area akin to one great mud-wrestling arena , it was a superb spectacle . |
| 5 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 6 | The day , with classes from Jean Parmiter and Joan Gatfield and a fun-session from Aldercine Hodson , lived up to the elevated tone of the surroundings , and donations were sent both to Macmillan Cancer Relief in memory of Beryl , and to the Society . |
| 7 | Many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life , and few women , including leading feminists , would have thought of demanding more . |
| 8 | Despite one outburst from John Heard , there 's no attempt to explore another sinister possibility , that all men conceal their true identity in order to live up to the modern woman 's expectation of her ‘ dream man ’ . |
| 9 | For their money , they got traditional advice — Gover would always try to get batsmen to live up to the technical ideal of Jack Hobbs — put in an unstuffy and flexible way : ‘ We would fit the mould to the customers , not the other way round . ’ |
| 10 | Even this limited warfare showed the most independent-minded of the colonists that the English connection had some practical uses , and the English government did its best to live up to the implicit bargain that lay behind the Navigation Acts . |
| 11 | It has become agony for her to live up to the manufactured image of America 's favourite grandmother . |
| 12 | But a a away from the the the politics and the necessity to mine coal yeah or nay , your personal worry is that you live close to the proposed site and it 's going to somehow adversely affect the quality of your and your family 's life . |
| 13 | Not nearly so self-consciously ‘ modern ’ as , say , Slaves Of New York , this disaster-laden story of a Manhatten misfit who 's had enough does n't quite live up to the provocative promise of its title . |
| 14 | Lemert suggested that this cuts off access to conventional settings , activities and identities and in time leads to the ‘ deviants ’ acquiring a different conception of themselves : they live up to the deviant identity given to them by the labellers and indulge in more ( ‘ secondary ’ ) deviance . |
| 15 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |