Example sentences of "not be [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level .
2 Not been up to anything .
3 Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par .
4 And our all round cricket has not been up to standard . ’
5 This popularity has not been all to the good , but having said that , the Rottweiler has now made friends who are concerned with his welfare .
6 There had not been much to Clive .
7 He had not been back to Stowe since the day he left , almost seventeen years before .
8 When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency .
9 Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls .
10 Betty , who clearly had not washed , since she had not been down to the stream and there was no water in the cottage , padded about in her dressing-gown and slippers offering to slice the bread for breakfast .
11 let the other man , the conservatory man know , it 's not fair to not be here to .
12 If they were not lying securely in their graves , awaiting the Day of Judgement , what might they not be up to in the long hours of darkness , as the boards creaked and the wind howled on Wuthering Heights ?
13 But it will not be up to me alone .
14 ANYONE CONCERNED that their camcorder skills might not be up to par could consider doing what some New Yorkers have done — take a ‘ how to ’ class in X-rated video production .
15 He said delicately , ‘ Stock involves quite a lot of ladder work , in the warehouse … ’ as if Anna might not be up to such physical strenuousness .
16 A lot of them send stuff that might be the greatest thing they 've ever produced , but looked at objectively it may not be up to much .
17 He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents
18 Unlike the present law , it will not be up to the defendant to prove his belief , the burden of proof will rest on the prosecution .
19 Yes it would , it would not be properly to , to just make one comment and that is that the next five hundred thousand that the local is therefore two point six million from the reserve fund , that is substainable for two and a half years it is not substainable beyond .
20 Now Mr. Duggan may well have video evidence of Welsh dirty play in the past and also the statements of Will Carling , the England captain , may not be quite to his liking , but please gentlemen , come on !
21 The colour may not be quite to their liking but they may be very hungry for example .
22 In his opening speech , the hon. Member for Birkenhead said that we should ’ bring forward ’ the arrangements which will prevail after 1993 , but it will not be down to the local adjudication officer to assess people to decide the appropriate care and to assess the reasonable rate .
23 But it will certainly not be down to any shortage of hard work or effort beforehand . ’
24 £82 may not be much to a Cabinet Minister , but it is a fortune to many of our clients .
25 The reason is obvious to you but may not be so to them at all .
26 As Miranda was halfway down the dark and narrow stairwell , she realised who it was who had so disarmed Madame that she had not scolded Marie-Angèle ( for not being downstairs to hand , to run the message up to Mlle Everard ) , or waited to reproach Miranda herself for allowing visitors to call without appointments and cause all this trouble to her hostess in the Hotel Davenant .
27 Added upset came in the same year from a speech by Dr W. Starkie , the commissioner of National Education in Ireland , who attacked school managers for not being up to their job .
28 Actually , the former Soviet Union had been invited to do the honours but declined , not being up to it organisationally nor economically at present .
29 He was the one who 'd complained the most loudly and vociferously about Blend Six not being up to the job , that the burn characteristics were wrong , that the car was running uneven .
30 I believe everybody should be given this opportunity , whether they take it or not is up to them .
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