Example sentences of "[vb base] not [vb infin] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
| 2 | When the two do not match up there is pressure either to revise the blueprints or to change the environment . |
| 3 | Thus ( 61 ) will be true , on this account , just in case there is some reference time ( say , another event ) prior to CT , such that at that reference time , ( 62 ) would have been true ( while ( 62 ) is in turn true , just in case ( 63 ) would have been true at some point prior to the CT of ( 62 ) ) : ( 6z ) John had seen Mary ( 62 ) John saw Mary ( 63 ) John sees Mary But such M-tenses do not match up simply with L-tenses , for L-tenses nearly always encode additional aspectual and modal features too ( see Comrie , 1976a ; Lyons , 1977a : 703ff , 809ff ) . |
| 4 | Apprentices do not wake up in strange beds the night before an important ride and then tell all to the boss 's wife . |
| 5 | Ms Nancy Lazar , an economist at C.J. Lawrence , views this as a better measure than M2 , which is growing at a faster 6.1% year-on-year : deposits have been flowing out of savings and loan institutions , which do not show up in M2 , and into banks , which do . |
| 6 | In particular , areas like Knowsley and Tower Hamlets , which contain vast tracts of the poorest council housing , do not show up as especially in need of redistributional funding under the formulae used in the assessment of GRE . |
| 7 | You may be unwilling to lend money directly to another person in case they do not pay up . |
| 8 | But they have made it perfectly clear that the council is prepared to fight for compensation if the companies it holds responsible do not pay up . |
| 9 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 10 | In those circumstances , vitamin and mineral deficiencies do not crop up in a couple of weeks . |
| 11 | They do not stand up to even the briefest of scrutinies . |
| 12 | The technique of ‘ hunt the analogue ’ is a favourite one practised by palaeontologists , but it is certainly not a foolproof one , because there are many fossil animals that defy comparison with living organisms , and some analogues do not stand up to detailed scrutiny . |
| 13 | Do not stand up for a few moments . |
| 14 | It is as well that such arguments do not stand up to serious scrutiny . |
| 15 | Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess . |
| 16 | As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking . |
| 17 | If we do not face up to our fears , we might project them onto the outside world , perhaps in the form of violent crime , epidemics , disasters or a vengeful God , or ( closer to home ) in the form of a partner , family or friends who ‘ block ’ our growth , and thus protect us from facing our fears . |
| 18 | They do not go up hills or through mountains . |
| 19 | An additional factor arises when keys do not go up in ones , but in twos , threes , fives , tens or some other increment . |
| 20 | Do not pile up plates or saucepans higgledy - piggledy on a high shelf , where they can so easily fall on top of you when you reach up for something . |
| 21 | It is extremely important that you do not give up at this point and this is where training really begins . |
| 22 | If you are not working , do not give up all your time to charitable work — you will be worn out , for voluntary work is a bottomless pit and those who run charities freely admit that they squeeze every last drop of help that they can out of people . |
| 23 | He said he was very heartened to hear the comments of those taking part ; all felt they had to finish as a matter of pride — they do not give up easily in Gawthorpe . |
| 24 | They do not give up . |
| 25 | ‘ Those bastards do not give up so easily , eh ? |
| 26 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 27 | So , if you like the shape of something but not the size and colour , do not give up on it . |
| 28 | Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle , such as heavy drinking , which you think may make you look less respectable . |
| 29 | Or you catch a cold and you just do not feel up to it ? |
| 30 | Visible , painful , incurable , distasteful to others — not such an easy task as one might think , for most of the internal ailments do not measure up to these basic requirements . |