Example sentences of "to live [adv prt] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France . |
| 2 | Our country has more than enough pubs whose ruined interiors fail to live up to the promise of attractive historic frontages . |
| 3 | Much of this consensus , at least nominally , cut across party lines : Beveridge , who formalised the project of ‘ welfare ’ expansion , was a Liberal ; the 1944 White Paper on employment policy was produced under the war-time coalition ; Butler 's educational reforms were also decided in 1944 , but many people thought that the Labour Party was more likely to live up to the promise of reform . |
| 4 | The political scene in 1990 was dominated by the run-up to the November presidential elections [ see pp. 37850-51 ] , the continuous peace talks with the URNG , which failed to live up to the promise of the June agreement [ for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] , and the controversy with the US government over political assassinations by right-wing paramilitaries [ see p. 37311 for March 1990 withdrawal of US ambassador and p. 37912 for December suspension of US military aid ] . |
| 5 | Profits were better too in Australia , but 's in the USA failed to live up to the promise seen in the first six months . |
| 6 | In another move which shows that the board intends to live up to the word ‘ control ’ in its title , it sent a message to the Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road , where Frank Bruno is playing in Aladdin , to the effect that Bruno will not be able to rub his genie 's lamp and in a puff of smoke reappear in a world title fight . |
| 7 | Conscience is a function of the ego ideal , and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal . |
| 8 | In so far as the polytechnics today do in fact offer a wide range of advanced courses on different bases of study , they can also be said to live up to the description of being ‘ comprehensive ’ in that respect . |
| 9 | SSDs are failing to live up to the Children Act requirements to provide an ethnically sensitive service for black children in their care . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | There is a small dam to pass , and then it 's plain sailing all the way back to the car park to live with the shame that we failed to live up to the term ‘ fit walkers ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The book itself tries to exist away from the markers in the margins , yet ca n't seem to live up to the chapter heading promises . |
| 19 | Without naming his new guru , the Zimbabwe-born batsman — who has failed to live up to the blaze of publicity which greeted his arrival on the Test scene in 1991 — revealed that his poor form in five-day games against Pakistan last summer led him to seek psychiatric advice . |
| 20 | Such was the organisers ' strong determination to live up to the movie image of English life , they even laid on a scatty vicar wearing a panama hat to serve tea and sandwiches at the finish . |
| 21 | Now he was prepared to live up to the role . |
| 22 | Relations with RHAs and the Management Board also failed to live up to the Griffiths vision of giving general managers local autonomy and freedom to manage within the context of personal and corporate accountability for the attainment of agreed targets and objectives . |
| 23 | But naturally not even legitimate authorities always succeed , nor do they always try to live up to the ideal . |
| 24 | Especially in the area of gender , wishful thinking about how women ought to look and act can easily acquire prescriptive force , with the consequence that real women try to live up to the ideal . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |