Example sentences of "n't live up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unbalanced design of Mazda 's MX-3 did n't live up to the promise of its unique 1.8-litre V6 specification |
| 2 | Robin Williams , Dead Poets Society : see Critic 's choice Virginia Mayo and James Cagney in Raoul Walsh 's classic 1949 production of White Heat … even movies as good as this ca n't live up to the praise lavished on them by some film reference books : see Critic 's choice Hear no equal , see no equal … |
| 3 | I feel very inadequate if I ca n't live up to the standards that I have and I start to feel guilty as well . |
| 4 | They react to them in that way because automatically some of them do n't come from a background in which they grew up with father figures and another thing is they ca n't live up to the expectations of a lot of black women , so it makes them feel lesser . |
| 5 | And if it did n't live up to the investor 's rigorous standards , no one had any doubt that he would make good his threat of withdrawing his backing . |
| 6 | Erm unfortunately they did n't live up to the expectations . |