Example sentences of "not [vb infin] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 2 | Ten years and a couple of hundred hotel nights later , the memory lingers on : the yellow lino with glitter detail , the handle hanging from the wardrobe , a flickering fluorescent light over the bed , with its violent orange blanket and holed sheets , a television alternating colour and mono , and a bathroom straight from Fawlty Towers — threadbare towels , tacky unwrapped soap and a toilet lid which would not stay up . |
| 3 | They will not stay up there ! |
| 4 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 5 | Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle , such as heavy drinking , which you think may make you look less respectable . |
| 6 | Because of the ‘ unconvincing nature ’ of the compromise , he could not make up his mind whether he should apply for membership . |
| 7 | She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi . |
| 8 | It also brought up the art quote of the year , from one Ziff Fistrunk ( no , I do not make up the name ) , director of the Southside Chicago Sports Council , who organised the protest : ‘ I have trained players in Little League and semi-pro baseball , and at no time did I train them naked . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , Piper , if you can not make up your mind , you are welcome to spend the night at the Police Station ; I have two empty cells at the moment . |
| 10 | They would say , not without truth , ‘ Britain claims to be head of the Empire , but can not make up her own mind . ’ |
| 11 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 12 | Mr Collor 's problem is that although money is no obstacle to his multi-million dollar campaign , it does not make up for the thousands of enthusiastic party militants campaigning for his rival . |
| 13 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 14 | Other Hamlets have been as wrong-headed : Laurence Olivier 's of 1948 , perhaps , which charted ‘ the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind ’ , or Grigori Konzintsev 's Marxist version of 1964 . |
| 15 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 16 | The Great War and those more recent conflicts were put together and ‘ paid-for ’ on behalf of politicians who could not make up their minds or bring the problems to the debating-table ; who preferred the shouting and smearing , the innuendo and hate for their opponents ' parties , to the welfare and the good of their people . |
| 17 | She could not make up her mind whether to risk wearing them for the competition . |
| 18 | The recent price recovery can not make up for that much lost ground . |
| 19 | If the contractions can not make up their mind about starting or not , that is they come and go and labour is not properly established , take one dose of Pulsatilla 200 every 2 hours until the contractions do make up their mind . |
| 20 | France and the USSR have already indicated that they will not make up the deficit . |
| 21 | This word can convey several meanings but one of them expresses an inner state of mind so torn between various options that it can not make up its mind . |
| 22 | Wellington could not make up its mind , so nominated both . |
| 23 | In other words , technology does not make up for Europe 's high labour costs . |
| 24 | It follows that we can not make up a square matrix X of eigenvectors to satisfy ( 8 ) ; for this reason the matrix B is said to be defective . |
| 25 | I could not make up my mind which was cause and which effect . |
| 26 | And when a half-page profile of Jean-Claude appeared in Le Nouvel Observateur I really could not make up my mind whether he was more genuinely displeased than pleased . |
| 27 | The business class as a whole does not make up more than 0.2% of the population , although if its outer fringes are included it could approach 1% . |
| 28 | When current and capital expenditure in these areas is substantially reduced , private enterprise inevitably suffers , for it can not make up the loss by diverting its activities to other private sectors . |
| 29 | At the other extreme there are many malnourished children who do not make up those essential nutrients , which lacking in school meals , when they return home to eat . |
| 30 | He could not make up his mind about Swayne . |