Example sentences of "not match up " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the recent past , and as was to be the case with much greater frequency after the start of the Five-Year Plans , planners in Moscow drew up neat and rather abstract formulations that did not match up closely with local realities and timings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It does not match up to the image the writer and the reader have created together . |
| 5 | When the two do not match up there is pressure either to revise the blueprints or to change the environment . |
| 6 | 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 … . |
| 7 | At tissue level , the end point of good healing is scar tissue , which does not match up to the original tissue lost in injury . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I started to make it up to my horror I found the stripes did not match up front and back . |
| 10 | But the pair returned to Britain a few weeks ago after homesick Joanna complained that Rome did not match up to Newcastle . |
| 11 | Expatriates may feel that Britain has gone ‘ downhill ’ while they have been away and homecoming does not match up to the good life abroad . |
| 12 | Even within one school , methodological and theoretical subjects may not match up . |
| 13 | The reasonable man is distinguished by three fundamental characteristics : he behaves in a reasonably prudent manner , he acts with fair regard to others , and conduct which does not match up to his behaviour is subnormal or deviant . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Finally , and more generally , it may perhaps be worthwhile to spell out the ways in which production may not match up to ideals under either regulation or unfettered market operation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Lazarsfeld recognised that social science theories , currently and for the foreseeable future , could simply not match up to those on offer in the natural sciences . |
| 18 | Thus ( 61 ) will be true , on this account , just in case there is some reference time ( say , another event ) prior to CT , such that at that reference time , ( 62 ) would have been true ( while ( 62 ) is in turn true , just in case ( 63 ) would have been true at some point prior to the CT of ( 62 ) ) : ( 6z ) John had seen Mary ( 62 ) John saw Mary ( 63 ) John sees Mary But such M-tenses do not match up simply with L-tenses , for L-tenses nearly always encode additional aspectual and modal features too ( see Comrie , 1976a ; Lyons , 1977a : 703ff , 809ff ) . |
| 19 | An independent report found that many of the plants did not match up to European safety standards , burned high sulphur coal , and were badly sited . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But because his insurance brokers could not match up details from the other driver with her insurance company 's records , Michael lost his no-claims bonus . |