Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | It does not match up to the image the writer and the reader have created together . |
| 33 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
| 34 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 35 | Ruth would almost certainly not come up to the flat . |
| 36 | She left the Tyne yesterday for six days of sea trials and ‘ our worry is that it will not come back to the river but will be completed somewhere else in the UK ’ , he said . |
| 37 | For all its sincerity , the play did not live up to the promise of its finely drawn characters and the Manchester Guardian called it ‘ a mildly glum artistic failure ’ . |
| 38 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 39 | In other words , I feel guilty because I can not live up to the expectations placed upon me by society or individuals . |
| 40 | Reading a work 's introduction can be helpful , though even then content may not live up to the billing , so that a sampling of the text is also advised . |
| 41 | Put simply , the meanings of black and bird do not add up to the meaning of blackbird , but do yield that of black bird . |
| 42 | In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted . |
| 43 | Even if the phone was answered , the client might not get through to the person he wanted . |
| 44 | Some golfers are afraid to transfer the weight in case they can not get back to the ball at impact . |
| 45 | He said in a quiet voice : ‘ You 'll give me your word that what I tell you will not get back to the Josephs ? |
| 46 | If you have got yourself in this situation and can not get back to the beach , drop your sail and try and attract attention , by waving the fluorescent flag you should be carrying . |
| 47 | I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse . |
| 48 | ‘ We do not leap on to the table for our food . |
| 49 | It may or may not resolve on to the note it temporarily replaces . |
| 50 | However , the wound did not continue through to the chest wall at the back . ’ |
| 51 | Although the apex of the pitched roof of this wing was 6.5m ( 21ft ) above floor level , unlike the arrangement that applies at Shawell school , the internal space did not extend up to the roof ridge-board . |
| 52 | It is useful to have trays with a non-skid surface and a raised rim , so that small objects do not slip on to the floor or out of reach . |
| 53 | He did not turn up to the funeral when his friend died , and for me this was sadder than the loss of the vicar who had found peace and hope before he died . |
| 54 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 55 | Prospective players need n't rush out to the gym though . |
| 56 | You ca n't hang on to the past . ’ |
| 57 | I did n't feel up to the snubs your radical feminist friends would have handed out . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ I want to send out a very strong message today , ’ he had said , ‘ one thing I learned when I was young is that you do n't give in to the village bully . |
| 59 | Association chief executive Frank Clark said : ‘ We say we wo n't give in to the IRA and yet the police say they can not guarantee the safety of a manager at a football match . ’ |
| 60 | Try to hold these contradictory memories together : do n't give in to the temptation to simplify your experience by discarding one important aspect of it . |