be found lacking

But that also means that it’s often going to be found lacking in individual cases.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2019

This has meant that, while weakness has often compelled them to endure being lectured, criticized and to be found lacking, they have always chafed under such a censorious regimen.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2013

On neither point would she be found lacking.

From Linda Tressel by Anthony Trollope

This has given his art a rather bad name, but judged by his best works in the Ducal Palace and the Academy at Venice, he will not be found lacking.

From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke

He endeavored as earnestly as possible to give his whole being to the order, and not to be found lacking in his ministry.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson