Example sentences of "[verb] up to [art] standards " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society . |
| 2 | Logically , it would make sense to assume that the aircraft failed to come up to the standards of performance and aggressive capability which the Soviets expected of it . |
| 3 | Er with the new contracts that started in September erm basically it seems that some teachers are having to do bits of cleaning themselves to keep their their classroom up to up to scratch up to the standards they ought they ought to be . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Provisionals replied by appointing a ‘ security officer ’ to each brigade to inspect buildings to be bombed for compensation and to arrange with the owners that the security arrangements be brought up to the standards specified in the government regulations . |
| 6 | Also , if bus stations were brought up to the standards , with pleasant lounge cafés , attendants to look after luggage and protection for passengers from fumes and the weather , then even the maniacal travelling executive might be tempted to use public transport . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All managers are being trained up to the standards of NEBOSH , the national examining body for health and safety in the UK , and by September 300 will have completed the full NEBOSH course . |
| 9 | Therefore , if a firm engaged to write a computer program fails to measure up to the standards that would normally be expected from able computer programmers and the program turns out to be sub-standard then , prima facie , the firm will be liable in contract . |
| 10 | Certainly as far as Americans are concerned , a lot of our hotels do n't come up to the standards of service that they are used to , and certainly they do n't think they 're value for money . |
| 11 | I feel very inadequate if I ca n't live up to the standards that I have and I start to feel guilty as well . |
| 12 | there 's another meaning to the word respect , which is what is shown up by the Stoke Newington incident , and other similar incidents , in that , you can only respect somebody if they actually live up to the standards that they actually hold out to the rest of you . |
| 13 | Indeed I have often chided myself with the realization that I have not lived up to the standards that they set . |