Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [to-vb] up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table . |
| 2 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 3 | Although , in terms of volume or profitability , such discoveries can not hope to make up for the fading glory of the state 's North Slope field , daily Alaskan production might fall by only a few hundred thousand barrels over the next decade , rather than dwindling away , as some had suggested . |
| 4 | His wife , not deigning to look up from the page , smiled to herself slightly . |
| 5 | The present players do not have to put up with the old ‘ Chicken Run . ’ |
| 6 | Finally , the high turnover at the polls might be indicative of changes in the local population , or prudential calculations amongst particular electors as to whether it was worth one 's while trying to exercise one 's right to vote ( on the logic that people will not bother to turn up to the poll if they believe their preferred candidates have no chance of success ) ; it could equally well be indicative of various forms of electoral manipulation and influence , such as the artificial creation of new electors , the ability of returning officers to prevent one side 's supporters from polling , or the ability of some members of the local elite to " persuade " electors not to register a vote in opposition to their wishes . |
| 7 | However , this sort of explanation does not seem to hold up in the face of evidence that football hooliganism is by no means a uniquely modern , post-1960 occurrence . |
| 8 | Not have to face up to the fact that he was a dynamic , intelligent , charming man with a gift for finance and the raw exercise of power . |
| 9 | I know how good you are at hiding away inside it when you do n't want to face up to the real world . |
| 10 | We do n't want to end up in the beer tent at three o'clock ’ — DICK BEST ( England coach ) about the Selkirk Sevens , where his seven lost in the quarter-finals to Gala . |
| 11 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 12 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 13 | Duncan hoped that the drink was n't going to end up in the cockpit . |
| 14 | You did n't have to get up at the crack of dawn to work out yardages . |
| 15 | If you take advantage of our superb offer , you wo n't have to get up at the crack of dawn and drag your clubs in and out of the car boot . |
| 16 | So likewise the Saturday nights here , I 'm alright I do n't have to get up in the morning . |
| 17 | She had n't wanted to come up into the cab . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ You 're useless , you need n't bother to turn up to the exams ’ , because he thinks I 'm going to fail . |
| 19 | The book itself tries to exist away from the markers in the margins , yet ca n't seem to live up to the chapter heading promises . |
| 20 | And er what I see of the modern teacher I 'm probably looking out with three different eyes , they do n't seem to come up to the same standing as those men were , at all because one thing that I I remember very vividly about them all , and they were family men , what I call family men . |