Example sentences of "[am/are] not [adv] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 — 3:11 : " I am not up to the job . "
2 Benjamin 's allusions in this passage are not just to the dominance of image and sensation and the devaluation of meaning in surrealism , not just to its characteristic patterning by eruptions of the primary process into consciousness , but also and especially to surrealism 's unconditional refusal to consider art as of a different order than life .
3 But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark .
4 So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out .
5 Individually , we are not up to the task of trying to handle our own uniqueness .
6 There are a number of members who are not up to the job .
7 Women are not given the opportunities because very often they are not up to the job .
8 And the reason they are not up to the job is that those in charge of hiring them are mostly men .
9 So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ?
10 So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ?
11 Privately , senior party members claim women do not put themselves forward , are not up to the job and stress that most male MPs have been in place for a long time .
12 However , Davis and Latter ( 1989 ) concluded that such developments are not necessarily to the benefit of any other centre , and orderly removal of excess capacity should be seen as a normal component of London 's evolution .
13 Does this mean that they 're not up to the job ?
14 more than seemed to be indicated in the figures that we 've got , because Buck 's figures for the extent of supplementary income are I know they 're significant but they 're not enough to the kinds of levels people had been living at .
15 The voices of money , weather and pornography ( all that uncontrollable stuff ) , they just are n't up to the job when it comes to Martina .
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