Example sentences of "not match [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 It is on this point that participant observation in practice very often does not match up to the ideal form and some consideration should be given to the situation arising .
3 It does not match up to the image the writer and the reader have created together .
4 She discovered that she was afraid of getting close , afraid of being betrayed , afraid of finding that a relationship did not solve all her problems , afraid of feeling trapped , afraid of ‘ disappearing ’ as a person , afraid of admitting that men were not all bad , afraid of losing her friends , afraid of having no more goals in life , afraid of giving up her unhappiness , afraid he might die , afraid of feeling dependent , afraid of sexual intimacy , afraid of letting go of the past , afraid that reality would not match up to the glorious fantasy … .
5 At tissue level , the end point of good healing is scar tissue , which does not match up to the original tissue lost in injury .
6 O'Hagan ( 1986 ) considers that this leisurely view of a social worker having four to six weeks to explore a crisis with a client does not match up to the experience in social service departments .
7 Expatriates may feel that Britain has gone ‘ downhill ’ while they have been away and homecoming does not match up to the good life abroad .
8 The two slower movements come off better , but even here the playing , thoughtful though it is , does not match up to the rapt quality which the finest artists achieve in this music , and the Scherzo surprisingly fails to take flight ( its Trio is plain dull ) .
9 Clearly the airlines ' authorized capacity does not match up to the company market shares as shown in either Table 11.2 or Table 11.3 .
10 Although the driver ant colony is an " animal " weighing in excess of 20 kg and possessing on the order of 20 million mouths and stings and is surely the most formidable creation of the insect world , it still does not match up to the lurid stories told about it .
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