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But the stunned ace got no further than Passport Control because his documents did not come up to scratch.

That tells me that either their software is not up to scratch or something funny is going on.

Much work was needed to bring them up to scratch and these young men worked hard to get ready for an opening to the public in June.

Helen missed yesterday's meeting. Will you bring her up to scratch on the Bank Project?

"Being host does bring a bigger advantage for the more physical events but China is not up to scratch in those. "

The local dancing troupe has improved this year, but it is still not up to scratch.

We organize training sessions to help them keep their sales techique up to scratch.

Only when Intel's Wi-Fi chip came up to scratch did laptop-makers opt for the whole Centrino package.

It is up to scratch the system design requirements through debug.

Terry acknowledges the fans were demanding more goals and the first half was not up to scratch.

Douglas: Harvey and Victoria will bring us up to scratch on what they know about Lian and Lok Lee.

Your work is not up to scratch. If you don't improve, you'll lose you job.

'what about those who don't quite come up to scratch on the pure LOVE thought?

The couple told the housing officials that the three-bedroom flat simply was not up to scratch for their needs.

Yes, if I showed up to scratch my maple dawn came, do you believe?

Each buyer will have to prove they can bring the house up to scratch using "construction skills" before they can own the property.

My mother always made me feel I wasn't coming up to scratch.

For some extremists, however, even a car as superb as the 599 isn't completely up to scratch.

And many of those who do make the grade in maths and English are not up to scratch.

You'd better bring your English up to scratch before you take TOFEL test.

Your work is not up to scratch. If you don't improve, you'll lose the job.

We'll have to bring the house up to scratch before we sell it.

Could you bring me up to scratch?

"We have the technology, " says an insider. "But the lesson of the 787 is that we could not get the production up to scratch in time. "

His health isn't up to scratch.

It'll take months to bring the band up to scratch.

A pianist has to practice every day to keep up to scratch.

You can count on him to come up to scratch when there is something really worth-while for him to do

The "Continental breakfast" was simply not up to scratch: two pieces of (burnt) toast;

what areas of the quality of their work were not up to scratch; how long the tasks were taking;