Example sentences of "live up to [art] [noun pl] " 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 | Living up to the principles |
| 3 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 4 | For one night at least , one member of the quartet who hijacked the course of popular music lived up to the hopes of those who had waited 23 years for the moment . |
| 5 | A bottle of house red lived up to the expectations predicted by the standard of the food — rich and fruity and not recommended for those driving home . |
| 6 | In a well-publicised match in February , Short defeated Dutch Grandmaster Jan Timman in a contest that lived up to the expectations for hard fought games . |
| 7 | SSDs are failing to live up to the Children Act requirements to provide an ethnically sensitive service for black children in their care . |
| 8 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 9 | Without the protection of these interests , the market order legitimated by interests theory countenances too many opportunities to trick and exploit others to live up to the virtues of trust and solidarity . |
| 10 | The impetus for suggesting so major an upheaval came from Coleridge , who felt an increasing sense of obligation to live up to the hopes so clearly implied by the Wedgwood annuity . |
| 11 | And when your children fail to live up to the hopes you have for them , you imply they are not acceptable people in their own right . |
| 12 | Within the holdings , the biggest disappointment was Thomson Corporation , which failed to live up to the hopes expressed in the last article that ( a ) the travel side would benefit from the collapse of Intasun , a major competitor , ( b ) that the results of the North American ( and at a later stage UK ) newspaper interests would reflect a developing cyclical upturn , and ( c ) that the professional publishing companies would maintain their profits momentum . |
| 13 | Prior to 1916–17 , prior to the crisis brought about by the demise of his father , the process of schooling was merely an extension of family life , a childhood means of emulating a successful father , the arena in which to live up to the expectations of a demanding father-figure . |
| 14 | Its report , Fit for the Future says that in many respects the Parks have failed to live up to the expectations of their founders , as enshrined in the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act . |
| 15 | He sets a high moral tone , exhorting the journalist to live up to the ideals of truth , decency and justice against the crasser world outside . |
| 16 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 17 | I still pray for Gary and continue to hope that he will eventually live up to the professions of faith that he has made . |
| 18 | It is a common critical stance to praise Tolkien 's conception , often somewhat vaguely , or with even more vagueness his ‘ mythological ’ or ‘ mythopoeic ’ powers ; but then to declare that the words do not live up to the things , the style ‘ is quite inadequate to the theme ’ . |
| 19 | The proof of the pudding is in the eating and while I found that McAfee VirusScan did n't quite live up to the advertisers ‘ claims , it was able to spot over 84 per cent of the infected files in my library . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They react to them in that way because automatically some of them do n't come from a background in which they grew up with father figures and another thing is they ca n't live up to the expectations of a lot of black women , so it makes them feel lesser . |
| 22 | In other words , I feel guilty because I can not live up to the expectations placed upon me by society or individuals . |
| 23 | Erm unfortunately they did n't live up to the expectations . |
| 24 | The Institute is made up of two departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured , and Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods and products live up to the claims made by manufacturers . |
| 25 | The Institute is made up of three departments : Cookery , which devises , develops and double-tests every recipe featured ; Consumer Research , where experienced researchers investigate whether domestic goods live up to the claims made by manufacturers ; and the Consumer Advice Service , which answers your questions and produces GHI Information Sheets . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This could either indicate that online services are failing to be useful , which is doubtful given the significant use that planners make of them , or that the online services have not lived up to the planners ' expectations . |
| 28 | Ironically , the Somerset bowling has n't quite lived up to the predictions . |
| 29 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 30 | Like the War powers Act , the budget reform act has not lived up to the expectations of those who crafted it . |