Example sentences of "[not/n't] come up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two honest critics can be given as exceptions , the first a Japanese who recorded a negative reaction to a picture which did not come up to his standards of meaningful symbolism . |
| 2 | ‘ People were extremely disappointed that conservationists could not come up with exciting positive solutions for potential land that might come out of agriculture , ’ says Miss Appleby . |
| 3 | I sensed that they approved of him whole-heartedly , and that by comparison I was no longer the blue-eyed boy of the family : I did not come up to scratch . |
| 4 | More often Hanka Zborowska switched the lights off and they pretended to be out so that Modigliani would not come up and ask for an advance on the next day 's work . |
| 5 | He had no track record himself in combat and the men he was to lead in battle were a pretty tough crowd , all of them individualists and likely to be highly critical of any officer who did not come up to their own standards . |
| 6 | But the profits in which he shared during 1840–44 did not come up to expectations , and after the disappointment of the low profits on A Christmas Carol , published on commission , he broke temporarily with Chapman & Hall , and turned to their printers , Bradbury & Evans , as his new publishers . |
| 7 | Mucus in the chest and it will not come up , rattling and wheezing . |
| 8 | She went on to tell Tamar that she and Elizabeth would not come up to Kirkbymoorside to stand the market in the future . |
| 9 | The first 15 overs yielded only 30 and the 100 did not come up until the 35th over . |
| 10 | The difficult search for a replacement for Bean after his retirement did not come up with a suitable candidate ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) . |
| 11 | A well built unit can always be used for other purposes should your venture not come up to expectation . |
| 12 | She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer 's high standards and would go back into the melting pot . |
| 13 | Students frequently say they have done the recommended reading , taken the necessary notes and reviewed all their materials , but still can not come up with a solution to the problem posed . |
| 14 | What , if anything , should disconcert us if we can not come up with a trouble-free definition ? |
| 15 | The EEC declared that the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act ( which incorporated the 1970 Equal Pay Act ) did not come up to its standards , and that the British government had to make it stronger . |
| 16 | It affects us all and its practitioners do not come up for re-election every five years . |
| 17 | Ruth would almost certainly not come up to the flat . |
| 18 | He did not come up again . |
| 19 | Falcon 3 from Spectrum Holobyte is still the best around for serious sim pilots , Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe from Lucasfilms , and Aces of the Pacific from Dynamix show how good ‘ historic ’ flight sims can be — against this formidable opposition Birds of Prey does not come up to scratch and in open combat would soon become the hunted , rather than the hunter … |
| 20 | It does not come up with the rations . |
| 21 | Does the Secretary of State agree that when local democracy does not come up with the results that he wants he abolishes it ? |
| 22 | The table provided in the Library note projects that we shall not come up against the upper ceiling of the present capacity in either this or the next financial year . |
| 23 | Now the flagship has been sunk , more quickly than the Mary Rose , but unlike that ship it will not come up again , even after a few hundred years . |
| 24 | If , with the help of all the civil servants who advise Ministers and who sit under the Gallery and elsewhere , one worked on a policy to create crime , one could not come up with anything better than what the Government have created in the past 12 years . |
| 25 | The subject of rue Roland did not come up again in the course of the evening until Loretta was stepping into a taxi for Islington outside the restaurant . |
| 26 | That has already been increased to fou fourteen hundred er you when you 're making your recommendation may or may not come up with a recommendation for a somewhat larger settlement . |
| 27 | There were , however , some cases in which the model did not come up with a valid parse , that is , a pattern that represents complete coverage of the input by a set of nonoverlapping words . |
| 28 | if Frank can get some first team football in spain i guess he feels that it will be better for his career than waiting for a chance at leeds — a chance that much likely will not come up . |
| 29 | If BR does not come up with the money the council is warning it may take action to force them to remove the ticket office . |
| 30 | Darlington has 131 of the crime combatting schemes and some volunteers feared they could fold if the council did not come up with its share of the funding Durham County Council provides the other half . |