Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not going up to never |
| 2 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 3 | Unfortunately these tables are not kept up to date , so even if your statute is not in the table it may be found in the relevant group in the main work . |
| 4 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 5 | and maybe they 're not facing up to that responsibility . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're not going up to your room till you 've washed up the supper things . ’ |
| 7 | Well we 're going home now , we 're not going up to Shr to Andy 's straight away . |
| 8 | A lower level route is also a good option for days when you 're not feeling up to making it across the tops . |
| 9 | Cos if you 're not feeling up to it , as well lard ? |
| 10 | You 're not turning up to school in this are you ? |
| 11 | ‘ I do hope you 're not working up to telling me that you wo n't be able to pay me what I 'm due ? |
| 12 | It might be argued that a tacit assumption of research which examines girls ' 'failure' in science is not only that girls are inadequate-not measuring up to the standard of boys — but also that maths , physics and chemistry are more difficult and more important than English , languages , history and biology . |
| 13 | I 'm not sitting up to that . |
| 14 | But we they were very good about going out , I 'm not going up to her again ! |
| 15 | We 've only really got work for the the labourers in the form , even labourers are n't employed up to the ninth floor cos that work 's already been completed . |
| 16 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 17 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 18 | When we got to the halfway camp , two of us were not feeling up to the rest of the climb , and spent the night there . |
| 19 | ‘ You certainly were n't coming up to twenty-nine , I was positive about that . |
| 20 | Yet it is precisely because this ideology is not lived up to in private , and because the state is involved both in its promulgation and its violation , that feminist theory can take a highly critical moral stance . |
| 21 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 22 | Mister Johnny 's not feeling up to the mark at the moment . |
| 23 | She 's not feeling up to much . " |
| 24 | She 's not coming up to the prison , it 's as simple as that . ’ |
| 25 | And when he is n't belting up to Liverpool to rejoin the Boswells , he 's busy rehearsing for what could be the biggest challenge of his career . |
| 26 | But what I do n't understand is though why we have n't got an underground station at Stoke Newington and why Stoke Newington train station is n't linked up to Whitechapel . |
| 27 | It is n't linked up to anything , it goes nowhere . |
| 28 | James in particular , the man earmarked as the lynchpin in the tactical plan , was not living up to expectations . |
| 29 | The day had a shadow in it and waS not living up to its promise . |
| 30 | In the end , said Hartley , ‘ the pleasures of imagination must decline ’ — but Wordsworth , although recognizing the possibility in Tintern Abbey — was not to face up to this fact until the time of the Immortality Ode . |