Example sentences of "[be] [verb] up with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey . |
| 2 | The interests of the overwhelming majority of professional people , small business men , shopkeepers and farmers are bound up with the social progress of the Labour and Democratic Movements . |
| 3 | However , if surveyors are to keep up with the inevitable changes taking place , they must become familiar with the new contracts . |
| 4 | A recent study of long-term fraud in the United Kingdom ( Levi 1981 ) also documents how companies are set up with the deliberate intention of using them to obtain goods on credit for which payment is never intended to be made . |
| 5 | Two suitably romantic leaders , who escaped in time , now emerged , the 26-year-old third Earl of Derwentwater , a grandson of Charles II by one of his mistresses , who had been brought up with the Old Pretender at St Germain , and become a major landowner in Westmorland , and Thomas Forster , an MP for Northumberland . |
| 6 | Oh I do , I do and my mates is on er , of course they 've been brought up with the metric system you see and he 's |
| 7 | He wrote to Rohde in 1868 , encouraging his friend to follow suit : " we must do it simply because we can not do anything else … [ but ] … for our part let us see to it that young philologists are brought up with the necessary scepticism , free from pedantry and the over-valuation of their profession , and behave as genuine promoters of humanistic studies . |
| 8 | Working-class artists are brought up with the traditional — at best , and if they can get it . |
| 9 | Kevin Coley was rumoured to be fed up with the dreadful Napiers and looking for a new senior professional . |
| 10 | These have to be matched up with the mounting holes in the new motherboard . |
| 11 | I left home when I was 16 , I 've travelled the world and I 'm fed up with the fun side of life . |
| 12 | At a higher social level the lives and fortunes of individuals continued to be bound up with the continental possessions . |
| 13 | For a deeper cure this can be followed up with the constitutional remedy . |
| 14 | CONCERN about the freeze on its annual grant is to be taken up with the Scottish Arts Council by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , which had expected an increase of at least 3 per cent . |
| 15 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 16 | Most days have been taken up with the unreported routine of minor incidents occurring twice or three times a day : suspect devices , random gun shots and the like . |
| 17 | And , despite what the media claimed , Reagan was not elected because people were fed up with the huge federal deficit and were clamoring for budget cuts … . |
| 18 | The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches : |
| 19 | Ministers clearly recognise there is widespread concern about the outcome of the new assessment process , the wide variations appearing in eligibility criteria , and about the contracts being drawn up with the independent sector . |
| 20 | The institutions of Roman civil law were bound up with the rigid observance of strict form ; trusts were not , the textbooks say . |
| 21 | Jordan is catching up with the Western world . |
| 22 | Time is catching up with the baldly-going heroes . |
| 23 | It seems IBM believes all it has to do to get its way is to come up with the right marketing plan . |
| 24 | On environmental grounds , use of solvent-based product is falling and our job is to come up with the right alternative across a whole spectrum of end uses . ’ |
| 25 | Any lack of elegance in the prose is made up with the gripping action . |
| 26 | ‘ She is fed up with the naval life ? ’ |
| 27 | Like most activists , Isaacs is fed up with the sloth-like pace with which governments are taking on environmental concerns . |
| 28 | When the second part of the strap is cut it 's matched up with the main piece for colour . |
| 29 | The problem of the missing mass is bound up with the other great problem of cosmology — where did the overall structure of the universe come from ? |
| 30 | According to a long and dominant tradition , the physical is bound up with the spatial . |