Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 — 3:11 : " I am not up to the job . "
2 There are a number of members who are not up to the job .
3 Individually , we are not up to the task of trying to handle our own uniqueness .
4 Women are not given the opportunities because very often they are not up to the job .
5 And the reason they are not up to the job is that those in charge of hiring them are mostly men .
6 But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark .
7 So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ?
8 So all these a lot of these firms are not up to the job why do why do n't you sack them people are not up to the job why do n't they get sacked ?
9 So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out .
10 Privately , senior party members claim women do not put themselves forward , are not up to the job and stress that most male MPs have been in place for a long time .
11 Power struggles are not out of the question and , if you are single , you may be drawn into a passionate , even obsessive liaison .
12 But we are not out of the woods .
13 Manager Harry McNally said : ‘ We are not out of the wood but we have been thrown a lifeline .
14 Does this mean that they 're not up to the job ?
15 We have been and some would still have us believe , I think it 's true , we 're not out of the woods yet as far as er er recovery of the housing market is concerned .
16 I mean , they 're not out of the way .
17 Once the door 's been locked at night and the medicine 's been round , you 're not out until the morning .
18 Yeah cos you 're not out in the morning must of heard from here .
19 I 'm not up with the name of it
20 Oh no I might be able to actually no I 'll be able to come in James because I 'm not on until the evening , I can call in on my way to Merseyside .
21 I 'm not out in the world . ’
22 Rachel has told me that if I 'm not back inside the hour she 'll have my suitcase on the pavement .
23 Then , after a bit , it becomes not something unacceptable , but something accepted or at least something which is demonstrated to be not out of the question .
24 The voices of money , weather and pornography ( all that uncontrollable stuff ) , they just are n't up to the job when it comes to Martina .
25 You are n't out of the wood yet .
26 These acquisitions were not up to the basic standards of the museums of Moscow , the former ‘ capital of half the world ’ .
27 And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard .
28 They were not out of the weather .
29 They were not along for the ride .
30 The golden boys , those who never give the bad news , who make sure that when the plant breaks down they are not available to inform anybody , and have made absolutely certain they were n't around during the run-up to such a disaster , are rewarded .
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