Example sentences of "[modal v] n't [verb] up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was trying to undermine her self-confidence , make her believe she could n't stand up to the exigencies of canal life . |
| 2 | As they sped back towards Wimbledon , Robert wondered why he still could n't own up to the lie that had started all this . |
| 3 | But this would n't match up to the greatness of the Porfiry-Raskolnikov scenes . |
| 4 | They would n't add up to the sorts of things that we 've got . |
| 5 | More or less I think it went against the entries because the members just would n't turn up to the meetings . |
| 6 | Robin Williams , Dead Poets Society : see Critic 's choice Virginia Mayo and James Cagney in Raoul Walsh 's classic 1949 production of White Heat … even movies as good as this ca n't live up to the praise lavished on them by some film reference books : see Critic 's choice Hear no equal , see no equal … |
| 7 | I feel very inadequate if I ca n't live up to the standards that I have and I start to feel guilty as well . |
| 8 | They react to them in that way because automatically some of them do n't come from a background in which they grew up with father figures and another thing is they ca n't live up to the expectations of a lot of black women , so it makes them feel lesser . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're pathetic and obsessed and you wo n't face up to the truth that Eddie was never good enough to make the jump into Formula One ! |