Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] come [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 2 | He had no track record himself in combat and the men he was to lead in battle were a pretty tough crowd , all of them individualists and likely to be highly critical of any officer who did not come up to their own standards . |
| 3 | But the profits in which he shared during 1840–44 did not come up to expectations , and after the disappointment of the low profits on A Christmas Carol , published on commission , he broke temporarily with Chapman & Hall , and turned to their printers , Bradbury & Evans , as his new publishers . |
| 4 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 5 | The EEC declared that the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act ( which incorporated the 1970 Equal Pay Act ) did not come up to its standards , and that the British government had to make it stronger . |
| 6 | ‘ The players need to feel confident and secure in their positions and we are counting on those players who did not come up to expectation against Scotland , to make up for it against Ireland . ’ |
| 7 | The difficult search for a replacement for Bean after his retirement did not come up with a suitable candidate ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) . |
| 8 | There were , however , some cases in which the model did not come up with a valid parse , that is , a pattern that represents complete coverage of the input by a set of nonoverlapping words . |
| 9 | Darlington has 131 of the crime combatting schemes and some volunteers feared they could fold if the council did not come up with its share of the funding Durham County Council provides the other half . |
| 10 | The first 15 overs yielded only 30 and the 100 did not come up until the 35th over . |
| 11 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 12 | Declarations did not come in until 1889 , so that Stoddart 's innings was three years before , and that of Collins 10 years after . |
| 13 | So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ . |
| 14 | New concepts of force and inertia did not come about as a result of careful observation and experiment . |
| 15 | The absorption of the heretic Bosnian ( Bogomil ) Church into the Islamic world did not come about as a result of a dramatic act of mass conversion , but , if Ottoman statistics are to be believed , it was a relatively rapid process . |
| 16 | And , as so often , I did not come back to bed . |
| 17 | ‘ I did not come back to international rugby just to be the grandad of the B side . |
| 18 | The girls did not come back from Dublin after their lunch . |
| 19 | He did not come back until the evening , and then he was drunk . |
| 20 | Nenna 's children neither showed any interest in where she had been nor in why she did not come back until next morning . |
| 21 | Hazel did not come down to London for the weekend . |
| 22 | Her left hand did not come down upon the ground . |
| 23 | When I met them , I did not come out with all the clichéd bullshit and all the record company going-through-the-motions kind of thing , ’ he says . |
| 24 | The only disappointment for the Sunderland fans was that the team did not come out to be saluted after their 1–0 victory as happened when the 1973 side also won through to Wembley at Hillsborough . |
| 25 | His assailant did not come out of the affair unscathed . |
| 26 | His offer did not come out of the blue . |
| 27 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 28 | Mr Clarke said : ‘ The CTC money did not come out of money that Cleveland County would otherwise have got . |
| 29 | In their report , the prime minister 's advisers did not come out against optical fibres altogether . |
| 30 | It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years . |