Example sentences of "n't [adv] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from anything else you 're seconded to our team now so asking you to leave is n't entirely up to IMP any more . ’ |
| 2 | Maggie had the greatest desire to answer in Spanish and confound him , but in the first place she was n't exactly up to it , and secondly she was keeping it under her hat . |
| 3 | I also wished I could come up with an equally carefree stratagem for solving a more immediate problem — my skiing proficiency , which was n't really up to the task ahead . |
| 4 | Is that your common experience that that young men are n't are n't really up to this ? |
| 5 | He was n't even up to being works foreman any longer , quite apart from anything else . |
| 6 | I pulled the life-jacket inflation toggle and was very thankful to hear it and feel it inflating — but I realised immediately my suit zip was n't fully up , freezing water was seeping into it ’ . |
| 7 | They tried to put some of them into the Land Army , but Lilian was n't quite up to it , were you , my dear ? ’ |
| 8 | In fact , Henry 's real problem with the law was that he was n't quite up to it . |
| 9 | If she was n't quite up to her other team-mates , her presence there vastly increased her father 's generosity . |
| 10 | Because then you you would n't certainly up , be up to the standard would you ? |
| 11 | So , I mean these are the supporters that they , they 've got to sort of focus on erm even i he does say that some of the erm er leaders of the associations are n't actually up to scratch but he says eighty five percent of them are and it would be wrong to attack or to arrest , you know , the other fifteen percent and it 's got to come from their own discipline of the association , you let the movement grow together , do n't try and er become er , you know , resisting forces because er these are the people who we 've got to erm s stay with and to look after , to harness erm to work for and er so that 's basically , is his conclusion . |