Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] up to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after tests , it has been revealed . |
| 2 | SAFETY measures at a Darlington car park failed to come up to standard after vital tests , it has been revealed . |
| 3 | ( One notable exception is the University of London , which recently issued guidelines on what was acceptable in a house officer 's post and warned that jobs failing to come up to standard would not be recognised . ) |
| 4 | When he made The Dirty Dozen in 1967 , he failed to turn up to film the final scene , when he and Charles Bronson drive a huge weapons carrier across a bridge . |
| 5 | The alliance between Les Verts and France 's other green party , Génération Ecologie , failed to live up to opinion poll predictions in April 's parliamentary elections , winning only 9 per cent of the vote between them [ see ED 69 ] . |