Example sentences of "live up [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 2 | The purpose of this exercise , verbally repeated in funeral orations , was to instil in the young the duty of living up to the glorious achievements of their forefathers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 5 | Several schools commented on the importance of involving the whole school in living up to the agreed health policy . |
| 6 | Tutor Viv Shelley will look at whether manufacturing industries are living up to the green images they promote , the adequacy of monitoring processes and ask what responsibility lies with the public . |
| 7 | LIVING UP TO THE MACHO IMAGE |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Judging by the loud protests when the girls had to be evacuated to Norfolk , the enterprise lived up to the best expectations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I f I shall feel as if we 've been from here cos when I was first married we lived up round the next road . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yet it is impossible for an ordinary woman , perhaps with two or three young children , or by now middle-aged , to live up to the sexual fantasies built up within the containing cell . |
| 18 | In later life the daughter may find herself self-condemned as , without adequate inner resources , she fails to live up to the ideal standards she has set for herself . |
| 19 | Governments had to live up to the mythical images of themselves which were part of their acceptability . |
| 20 | Acknowledging their weaknesses and limitations to live up to the Christian ideals they realised the strength they would obtain from mutual help and formed themselves into Teams . |
| 21 | It has become agony for her to live up to the manufactured image of America 's favourite grandmother . |
| 22 | Concentrate instead on your own reputation by continuing to live up to the high standards you always set yourself . |
| 23 | If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I ’ ) — could not live up to the high expectations created by German propaganda . |
| 26 | The key question was whether , in practice , the numbers of candidates enrolling for the new system would live up to the high expectations . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ My task is to fill the hotel but make sure that we live up to the high expectations guests associate with this sort of establishment . |