Example sentences of "have 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 The judge was told that although the girl 's father was due to appear in court as a witness , he had not turned up at the hearing because the couple now planned to marry .
12 Clearly Balliol had not caught up with the decimated decoy party .
13 ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with .
14 Illes had not come up through the state bureaucracy , and his appointment as deputy state secretary was looked upon as a " statement of intent " by many in the environmental lobby .
15 One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers .
16 Even then , major subscribers like the US and the USSR had not come up with the necessary money .
17 The second-half had n't lived up to the football of the first but Tranmere played far better on Friday with less reward .
18 And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’
19 He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all .
20 He would never have found out if you had n't shown up in the office .
21 But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there .
22 This could either indicate that online services are failing to be useful , which is doubtful given the significant use that planners make of them , or that the online services have not lived up to the planners ' expectations .
23 Indeed I have often chided myself with the realization that I have not lived up to the standards that they set .
24 If you have not kept up with the nursing journals or have been out of practice for a long time then you will have to trust to luck or the recommendations of others as to the relevance and value of any course you choose to attend .
25 It asserted that ‘ the structure and practices of the Service have not kept up with the changing tasks ’ and found six major faults .
26 Perez says he is well aware that expert systems have n't lived up to the promises and claims that were being made for the technology three or four years ago , but claims Neuron Data was well aware of its limitations at the time and was already busy putting Open Interface together .
27 It 's very new to me ; it 's just too bad that they still have n't come up with the perfect guitar synth .
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