Example sentences of "not [verb] up to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at best a standstill and does not measure up to the problems of dereliction and rising unemployment . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid we did not measure up to the standards set by the well-hung Spanish men who drifted around with flies bulging to the point of bursting their buttons . |
| 3 | What has been an ideal jacket for the Lakeland fells could be too heavy to take to Africa ; what seems like a good buy for walking in the Alps might not stand up to the rigours of a Himalayan winter . |
| 4 | However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | In other words , I feel guilty because I can not live up to the expectations placed upon me by society or individuals . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Like the War powers Act , the budget reform act has not lived up to the expectations of those who crafted it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Indeed I have often chided myself with the realization that I have not lived up to the standards that they set . |