Example sentences of "not up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking for money THOSE not up to the London Marathon can instead walk for charity in aid of Enterprise Neptune , the National Trust 's appeal to save unspoilt countryside . |
| 2 | Israeli officials , while offering a more rapid review of the deportation cases , at the same time stressed that the ultimate decision on when the Palestinians would be repatriated from Lebanon was not up to the government but to courts . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I think Miss Grenfell is right , ’ she said guardedly , ‘ my work is not up to the standard you require . ’ |
| 4 | However , the cost is high ( but falling ) and the quality of the final product is sometimes not up to the standard of high-class manually digitized material . |
| 5 | Style analysers can give on-the-spot text analysis and tuition if your grammar is not up to the mark or your style is a little untidy . |
| 6 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 7 | The pages on what subject in Labour and the Nation are … not up to the mark … |
| 8 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 9 | If the shooting is not up to the mark , we will need to carry the consequences . ’ |
| 10 | She always wanted to be a vet , but she 's not up to the exams . |
| 11 | Lyons I was poorly attended : Lyons II ( May and July 1274 ) , though not up to the numbers of Lateran IV , had a wide spread of members . |
| 12 | Above all , local educational standards were as yet not up to the demands put upon them by ‘ the Centre ’ . |
| 13 | If someone 's performance is not up to the standards set by the injunctions , no allowances are made , even if they are doing their best to cope with severe or even impossible demands . |
| 14 | ‘ There are n't enough of them and they 're just not up to the standards women want . |
| 15 | You see , it 's not up to the participants to come in the right mood . |
| 16 | As well as newspapers , and for those whose literacy level is not up to the language of a newspaper , comics for adults are widely available . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm afraid , ’ writes Sidney Pollack , ‘ I would find my imagination not up to the challenge of working with no limits whatsoever . ’ |
| 18 | Individually , we are not up to the task of trying to handle our own uniqueness . |
| 19 | He toured Britain in 1955 and competed in the British Grand Prix at Aintree but had to retire after 34 laps in his Cooper-Bristol that was just not up to the task of Formula One racing against the likes of Moss and Fangio 's Mercedes . |
| 20 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 21 | There are a number of members who are not up to the job . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's just not up to the job . |
| 23 | Women are not given the opportunities because very often they are not up to the job . |
| 24 | And the reason they are not up to the job is that those in charge of hiring them are mostly men . |
| 25 | Not up to the job . ’ |
| 26 | — 3:11 : " I am not up to the job . " |
| 27 | Often , a filtration system that is not up to the job , or overstocking , or both . |
| 28 | Although that sort of thing is nominally catered for by most electrical equipment , using spike suppression and smoothing circuitry , I reckoned that this particular computer was not up to the job of coping with the dirty mains , and so an uninterruptible power source was thought to be the only feasible answer . |
| 29 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |
| 30 | So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ? |