Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 2 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 3 | It will not make up for the insufficient level of public services that Cleveland has been given by BR . ’ |
| 4 | But of course the water is not heaped up into a cube and so it is perhaps more appropriate , though less convenient , to think of this mass of salt water in its actual context — as a veneer-thin skin which lurks in those troughs and valleys which fall below the mean circumference of the earth 's planetary spheroid . |
| 5 | John had asked her not to go up to the loft . |
| 6 | Not lived up to the forecast at all . |
| 7 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 8 | Marx found the answer to this problem in his belief that , in the Asiatic system , the community is not broken up by the growth of private property and internal differentiation , as happens in classical city states or in feudalism , because the integrity of the community is maintained centrally by the State itself . |
| 9 | Some respondents felt that it was important that the manager had high expectations for punctuality and discipline so that resentment does not build up within the team . |
| 10 | ‘ But if the players are only going to produce their best in the glamour games and not pick up on the importance of matches against the likes of Wimbledon and Sheffield United , then they wo n't be playing when the big games come round again — it 's as simple as that . ’ |
| 11 | This young Samoyed will grow up much quicker than his companion , and must be trained not to jump up from the outset . |
| 12 | American unionism has had the inestimable advantage of being born in a land whose social landscape was not cluttered up with the debris of a feudal age . |
| 13 | Illes had not come up through the state bureaucracy , and his appointment as deputy state secretary was looked upon as a " statement of intent " by many in the environmental lobby . |
| 14 | The government has still not come up with a dump for the masses of intermediate wastes , such as fuel cladding , that the plant would produce . |
| 15 | One can speculate that if Mezey had not come up with the idea of dispensing with two hospitals , and of the remaining four being given a quadrant of the region to serve each , the idea that it was an RHA rather than local management responsibility to deal with the issue , might never have stuck in the minds of senior regional officers . |
| 16 | Even then , major subscribers like the US and the USSR had not come up with the necessary money . |
| 17 | and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods |
| 18 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 19 | ‘ I tell you what , ’ he said , after thinking for a few seconds , ‘ as you 're so keen on horses why not come up to the farm when you 've got some time to spare and help my young niece in the stables ? |
| 20 | Clearly Balliol had not caught up with the decimated decoy party . |
| 21 | ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with . |
| 22 | Armed with your bridging loan , you are effectively a cash buyer , not caught up in a chain , and you can use this position to your advantage , demanding and getting a good discount . |
| 23 | This argument can make little appeal to anyone not caught up in the artifices of philosophy . |
| 24 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 25 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 26 | Whereas a statement about services to follow will not be rendered ‘ false ’ by the services not matching up to the earlier statement , a subsequent statement which is false when made can attract liability . |
| 27 | That is to explain why it is not picked up in the narrative , but it does not explore the more significant matter of the effect of what the compiler has done . |
| 28 | A man … ( most of the examples in mathematics textbooks refer to men : women are invisible — a point not picked up in the Cockcroft Report which devotes a whole chapter to why girls perform less well in mathematics than boys do ) … earns £74.50 for a 48 hour week . |
| 29 | This can result in errors which can be costly if not picked up by the tenant 's solicitor . |
| 30 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |