Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of La Fura Dels Baus came up with the violent cartoon ‘ performance ’ — executives running manically on huge treadmills , hyper-fetishistic female fatales staging S&M routines , gold-painted bicycling centaurs and the metal minotaur . |
| 2 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 3 | • Many environmental consultancies produce publications to help clients keep up with the fast changing world of environmental legislation and regulatory affairs issues . |
| 4 | With that emphasis , Labour could hope to appeal strongly to a wide spectrum of the middle classes , from parents who are desperately worried about their children 's schooling to commuters fed up with the run-down public transport services and clogged roads . |
| 5 | Finally , David Stirling intended to take a small party and penetrate right through the enemy lines to join up with the First Army , which had landed in Algeria . |
| 6 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 7 | The second point of interest here about the BL case is the possibilities opened up with the new technology for improved forms of work organisation . |
| 8 | Although ventilation of the mines ( by huge steam-driven fans ) and haulage ( the raising and lowering of the cage or lift in the deep mines , and much of the transport underground ) had long been mechanized , work at the actual coal-face was still done by hand in many collieries ; and pit-ponies still dragged the small four-wheeled drams — the tubs or trams from the working places to link up with the mechanized ‘ journeys ’ . |
| 9 | We 've consulted the leading names in the motor industry and racked our own brains to come up with the definitive answer to one of the ultimate pub arguments . |
| 10 | The professor said that the plans , which will not involve incineration , followed the region 's appointment of consultants to come up with the best environmental option for the disposal of the region 's sewage sludge without excessive cost . |
| 11 | Once you have obtained the correct parts check to see whether the mounting screw holes line up with the old holes . |
| 12 | Research ( depth research naturally ) among some Chicago car owners came up with the following automobile ‘ personalities ' : Cadillac — flashy ; Ford — young and speedy ; DeSoto — conservative and responsible ; Pontiac — stable and conventional ; Mercury — assertive and modern . |
| 13 | We are taking active steps to ensure that practising actuaries keep up with the rapid pace of change through a programme of Continuing Professional Development . |
| 14 | This may , indeed , have some merit , but by itself it is not likely to help with decisions about major investments to keep up with the technological race . |
| 15 | In the 1920s , State museums stocked up with the better known works by profiting from confiscations and arrests ; in the 1930s and 1940s , by profiting from arrests and confiscations , and even from the unseen but colossal stockpile of war trophies . |
| 16 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
| 17 | It is possible to regard the perceived characteristics of the universities as both strengths and weaknesses , to applaud or to regret their commitment to the ‘ guardianship ’ of knowledge and their resistance to performing the ‘ wider service ’ , and in both cases to end up with the binary policy . |
| 18 | Older reporters fed up with the declining standards of Fleet Street ; younger ones condemned to the grind of sycophantic local newspapers owned by disinterested big groups ; good freelances — all were ready to start work . |