Example sentences of "not [vb infin] up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment
2 For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission .
3 The local newspapers in Ulster printed our press statements , but did not follow up the Black story on their own despite the clear indications of sinister and dramatic happenings .
4 Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken .
5 However , the likelihood is that processing and seeking will be entirely overlapped so this will not hold up the overall run very seriously .
6 But there could be more trouble if the king does not open up the political system or do something about the great disparities of wealth .
7 For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties .
8 Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’
9 He tried to hit me , kept pummelling me with his podgy fists , but he could n't summon up the necessary enthusiasm .
10 When you when archaeologists carry out the dig they do n't dig up the whole site .
11 My father ca n't climb up the narrow ladder from the top floor ; and , even if he could , I know he would n't be able to negotiate the twist you have to make to get from the top of the ladder , round the brickwork of the chimney flues , and into the loft proper .
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