Example sentences of "[noun sg] to live [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sets a high moral tone , exhorting the journalist to live up to the ideals of truth , decency and justice against the crasser world outside . |
| 2 | Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France . |
| 3 | Whether blacks are indeed being incorporated into American society is seen as a major test of its capacity to live up to its liberal and democratic ideals . |
| 4 | Such was the organisers ' strong determination to live up to the movie image of English life , they even laid on a scatty vicar wearing a panama hat to serve tea and sandwiches at the finish . |
| 5 | Sombro was presenting a common behaviour problem for male dogs , and it was nothing to do with high-strung pedigree breeding , failure to live up to expectations of unreasonable or over-demanding owners , or lack of freedom or space . |
| 6 | This means that , having discussed the problems with you , he should make you aware of the consequences of a continuing failure to live up to expectations and give you an opportunity to demonstrate an improvement . |
| 7 | Conscience is a function of the ego ideal , and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal . |
| 8 | Artaud 's initial public appearance before literary France came in the form of ‘ life ’ and not art , in the publication of his personal correspondence with Nouvelle revue française editor Jacques Rivière , after the latter had refused his poems due to their failure to live up to certain formal canons . |
| 9 | To blame religion for what could be people 's failure to live up to it is not logical . |
| 10 | The problem here is not just possessiveness and failure to live up to the high ethical ideals proclaimed by a religion . |
| 11 | It is the condition in which the attempts to avoid , cover up or evade responsibility for bad feeling — bad feeling generated by the impossible need to live up to inflexible standards — themselves create yet more bad feeling . |
| 12 | who has the courage to live up to his ideals , |
| 13 | It failed from the start to live up to expectations in terms of sales abroad . |
| 14 | Women who did not have the heart or the will to live up to what the moral and social order said they should be , but who lived by it nonetheless . |
| 15 | The impetus for suggesting so major an upheaval came from Coleridge , who felt an increasing sense of obligation to live up to the hopes so clearly implied by the Wedgwood annuity . |
| 16 | The sad truth of the matter is that Group 4 has such low levels of performance to live up to that already , despite its much publicised failures , the Home Secretary is able to claim that it is outperforming the public services it is replacing . |
| 17 | ‘ That sounds like a lot to live up to , ’ Kathie says , with a smile in her daughter 's direction . |
| 18 | As far as validation is concerned , there does not seem to be a lot to live up to . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought : ‘ I 've got a lot to live up to ! ’ |
| 20 | You guys have a lot to live up to . ’ |
| 21 | its 40 years since the jaguar c types scored their greatest victory in the legendary race and the new look jaguars have a lot to live up to … |
| 22 | Gordon Fairweather has a lot to live up to . |
| 23 | INDUSTRIAL development staff at Sunderland 's civic centre and town ( or should that be city ) hall have a lot to live up to . |
| 24 | This bruiser 's called Tyson — that 's quite a lot to live up to . |
| 25 | Pressure to live up to our own and other 's expectations . |
| 26 | Valium prescription is frequently related to an individual 's social functioning : the person 's ability to live up to social ideals , social expectations and the physician 's judgement are factors in a pseudo objective diagnosis . |
| 27 | Miracles being thin on the ground these days for most of us , it might be better to look after your skin with reasonably-priced products from well-respected companies who have a reputation to live up to , and good quality control . |
| 28 | As a bowler at Middlesex , Tuffers has a great tradition to live up to . |
| 29 | ‘ Wish that I did have the courage to kiss you , querida , ’ he rasped , ‘ but I have standards and a level of decency to live up to and they are more important to me than a moment of weakness to prove that I am immune to you . ’ |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |