Example sentences of "[vb base] to live [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , children who are told they are stupid tend to live up to that expectation . |
| 2 | Especially in the area of gender , wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force , with the consequence that real women try to live up to the ideal . |
| 3 | Our country has more than enough pubs whose ruined interiors fail to live up to the promise of attractive historic frontages . |
| 4 | If they are strongly and exclusively attached to domineering parents who set impossibly high standards and are deeply ‘ hurt ’ when their offspring fail to live up to them , it is probable that they will acquire a sense of conscience so severe and restrictive that their spontaneity and emotional life will be crippled and much of their creative energy will remain unused . |
| 5 | And when we fail to live up to our own high expectations , the more we feel we deserve punishment and blame . |
| 6 | And when your children fail to live up to the hopes you have for them , you imply they are not acceptable people in their own right . |
| 7 | He does n't like it when other people fail to live up to his own standards of professionalism . ’ |
| 8 | He falls back on the popular device for explaining why the working class fail to live up to what is expected of them — they are reduced to mindless automatons , responding only to right-wing media messages . |
| 9 | The rational scientist will reject theories that fail to live up to it and , when choosing between two rival theories , will choose the one that lives up to it best . |
| 10 | In your editorial article on fundamentalism ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) you suggest that because people fail to live up to standards , the doctrine should be changed . |
| 11 | Under these conditions , however good the heuristic estimate , the algorithm will keep abandoning paths that fail to live up to their initial promise in favour of untried paths that are promising a little more than they will deliver ( Pearl 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Religions frequently fail to live up to their high moral standards . |
| 13 | About 80 daredevils , most in their 70s and 80s , plan to live up to their reputation for unparalleled courage . |