Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 2 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 3 | It also brought up the art quote of the year , from one Ziff Fistrunk ( no , I do not make up the name ) , director of the Southside Chicago Sports Council , who organised the protest : ‘ I have trained players in Little League and semi-pro baseball , and at no time did I train them naked . ’ |
| 4 | France and the USSR have already indicated that they will not make up the deficit . |
| 5 | When current and capital expenditure in these areas is substantially reduced , private enterprise inevitably suffers , for it can not make up the loss by diverting its activities to other private sectors . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman says that that is what he is advocating , and says that we should reintroduce it now for those who face a shortfall in fees , but it would not make up the shortfall , because it would be part of the reasonable rate of fees . |
| 7 | Top-up arrangements are not permitted as part of a tender offer ( SAR 4.1(c) ) so the buyer could not make up the difference to shareholders who have already sold if a full bid on improved terms is made subsequently . |
| 8 | ‘ Paula Milne 's powerful and controversial play is a fictional account of her own experience of having a mongol baby and deciding , with her husband Peter , that they would not bring up the child . |
| 9 | As with redundancy , do not bring up the subject yourself but if it is discussed do not lie . |
| 10 | Clearly upset , the 51-year-old entrepreneur said that his group would not give up the fight . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We will not give up the US customer base to anyone unless it 's done in a partnership . |
| 13 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) That the King would not give up the chance of marrying Mrs Simpson . |
| 15 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 16 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |
| 17 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 18 | Likud sources are confident the disagreements over how to respond to the Mubarak proposals will not break up the government . |
| 19 | Three quarters of local authorities did not follow up the Department of Environment 's advice and carry out checks to see if the tenant was receiving the right benefits . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Unlike everybody else , however , the hard man did not look up the neighbourhood exorcist in Thompson 's Local Directory . |
| 22 | Sadly , it was inevitable that we could not keep up the pace against Twitchit Albion , especially with so many of our squad approaching the twilight of their careers . |
| 23 | Please note that : YOUR HOME IS AT RISK IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP THE REPAYMENTS ON A MORTGAGE OR OTHER LOAN SECURED ON IT . |
| 24 | But if it is cold , a monarch can not work up the energy to fly and can only manage to crawl up the nearest sage brush . |
| 25 | That being so , suppose we have another member of staff who is equally as effective as a teacher but who does not work up the lecture notes in the same way : could we not say that his or her teaching is integrated with research to the same degree ? |
| 26 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |
| 27 | But why not pluck up the courage to do what you 've always wanted ? |
| 28 | They had sent a telegram to Louise ( Constance could not pluck up the courage to speak to her ) ; Ludovico had telephoned a friend about somewhere for them to stay and they had eaten what to Constance , used to English food , seemed the most delicious lunch she had ever tasted . |
| 29 | If the plaintiff was in possession at the time of the conversion , the defendant could not set up the jus tertii , unless he was acting under the authority of the true owner . |
| 30 | The comparison does not set up the neat , formal differences such as those exploited by Weaver ( 1985 ) between the executive dominance of the Canadian parliamentary system and the checks and balances of the United States constitution . |