Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also considerable evidence that even people entitled to , for instance , free glasses , must still contribute significant amounts to the cost , because the value of the benefit has not kept up with the cost of glasses . |
| 2 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 3 | He has not turned up for the past two meetings of the Supreme National Council , which he chairs and which is supposed to govern Cambodia , in conjunction with the UN , in the period up to the election . |
| 4 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 5 | She died last month in her 80th year , knowing — as we all do — that the practice has not lived up to the vision , but still believing that some day it might . |
| 6 | Like the War powers Act , the budget reform act has not lived up to the expectations of those who crafted it . |
| 7 | At the most general level , we can say that the electorate has not lived up to the hopes of those who looked to an active and informed public involvement in policies and elections . |
| 8 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 9 | So much so that Colin , being totally pissed off with the press , has n't turned up for the interview . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’ |
| 11 | At the time and date arranged , he meets an old friend and decides not to turn up for the meal with his niece . |
| 12 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 13 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 14 | It does not face up to the punishment question because it implicitly suggests that they are not culpable if their criminal aetiology can be ‘ understood ’ . |
| 15 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 16 | It may be that Candida is overabundant , but that this does not show up in the stools because the yeast is attached to the gut wall in some way — perhaps in its hyphal form . |
| 17 | Although it does not show up in the analyses , content surely also became more international , in source of origin , if not always in substance . |
| 18 | Further , the fact that lesion of the cerebellum x including the flocculus in rabbits , cats and monkeys , or subdural application in rabbits and monkeys of haemoglobin ( which blocks LTD ) , abolishes the entire VOR adaptation , raises the question of why brain stem synaptic plasticity does not show up in the absence of cerebellar plasticity . |
| 19 | Some respondents felt that it was important that the manager had high expectations for punctuality and discipline so that resentment does not build up within the team . |
| 20 | It is on this point that participant observation in practice very often does not match up to the ideal form and some consideration should be given to the situation arising . |
| 21 | It does not match up to the image the writer and the reader have created together . |
| 22 | At tissue level , the end point of good healing is scar tissue , which does not match up to the original tissue lost in injury . |
| 23 | O'Hagan ( 1986 ) considers that this leisurely view of a social worker having four to six weeks to explore a crisis with a client does not match up to the experience in social service departments . |
| 24 | Expatriates may feel that Britain has gone ‘ downhill ’ while they have been away and homecoming does not match up to the good life abroad . |
| 25 | The two slower movements come off better , but even here the playing , thoughtful though it is , does not match up to the rapt quality which the finest artists achieve in this music , and the Scherzo surprisingly fails to take flight ( its Trio is plain dull ) . |
| 26 | Clearly the airlines ' authorized capacity does not match up to the company market shares as shown in either Table 11.2 or Table 11.3 . |
| 27 | Although the driver ant colony is an " animal " weighing in excess of 20 kg and possessing on the order of 20 million mouths and stings and is surely the most formidable creation of the insect world , it still does not match up to the lurid stories told about it . |
| 28 | The practise of putting grease in the swivel housings should be avoided as this does not travel up to the front wheel bearings and leads to their premature failure . |
| 29 | But this kind of thing does not speed up till the time of the fourth-century satraps . |
| 30 | It does not come up with the rations . |