Example sentences of "quite up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are never ‘ not quite up to it ’ , because there is no ‘ it ’ to be quite up to . |
| 2 | We are never ‘ not quite up to it ’ , because there is no ‘ it ’ to be quite up to . |
| 3 | Not quite up to his class I thought . ’ |
| 4 | The big doors would open for them and close on them and McCloy and the men who were ‘ not quite up to his class ' would unload them and store the cargoes here . |
| 5 | Past Glories suggested he is on the way back when third to Kribensis in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle , while Floyd is not quite up to it in the highest class these days . |
| 6 | He had played five Tests on the 1984–5 tour of India without any marked success , leaving the impression that he was not quite up to Test standard . |
| 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 | Perhaps W. C. T. was never quite up to this level of verbosity ? |
| 11 | Not quite up to Epyx 's usual sporting standards , but a playable backstreet kick-around nonetheless . |
| 12 | Elsewhere , Waddington of London are still offering important pieces , although not quite up to previous years , and at rather high prices compared to nearby stands : a 1949 Dubuffet ‘ Joie de vivre ’ for SF1.28 million ( £481,200 ; $878,200 ) ; and a wonderful 1938 Miró watercolour at SF2.3 million ( £864,700 ; $1.57 million ) . |
| 13 | ‘ They 're good , but not quite up to Maine standard . |
| 14 | " Look , mate , if you ca n't make it in bed , if she is n't finding you quite up to the mark , do n't take your frustration out on the rest of us . |
| 15 | Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway . |
| 16 | On the design side , besides herself , there were two assistant designers , Leo and Kerry , both younger than herself , and both , judging by the samples of work they showed Lisa , highly competent in the tasks of pattern-making and fitting , but not quite up to producing original designs themselves . |
| 17 | Leon did n't feel his English was quite up to this . |
| 18 | She still felt very tired and run down , but her excuse was neatly removed by Glyn when she pointed out that she did n't feel quite up to driving . |
| 19 | Well I do n't think its quite er the level of aggression is quite up to that , I 'm sure that the market for legal services is now very much more competitive which is a healthy thing , and er if er if we were simply sitting on our hands from the nineteen eighties and not bothering to respond to that kind of challenge then I would be worried about it , but we 're not . |
| 20 | Mr. Gould is a man of great industry … his Wife makes his drawings on stone — she is a plain fine woman , and although these works are not quite up to Nature , both deserve great credit . ’ |
| 21 | It went reasonably well , but it was n't technically quite up to standard . |
| 22 | But if you do have pe people will say if you do h have those weaknesses and if er there were times that he could was quite up to the joshing and the name calling , there were times when he was n't , the very fact that there were times when he was n't , does n't that tell you that perhaps the Army was n't the place for him ? |
| 23 | ‘ Is she quite up to it ? |
| 24 | Mike Gatting will probably get the job this winter , but I doubt if either he or the two younger contenders , Mike Atherton and Alex Stewart , are quite up to the task of masterminding a major English renaissance . |
| 25 | Not quite up to Prime Suspect , but an improvement after Civvies and Seekers . |
| 26 | What happens if you have n't quite put the the other goods quite up to that level ? |