Example sentences of "put [adv prt] with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That bias towards comfort has meant compromises as far as sporting handling is concerned ; so you do n't have to put up with a jittery ride over poorly made up roads .
2 Rather like the systems employed by general practitioners , there are advantages and disadvantages to both methods , with patients perhaps preferring the former system and being prepared to put up with a long delay once in the clinic to a worried wait of two or three days .
3 Natural mothers had to put up with a great deal .
4 They may be content to put up with a certain proportion of customer complaints for a given volume of business .
5 As a result of the closure of Owlerton Stadium , they stated , supporters would ‘ have to put up with a certain amount of incontinence ’ .
6 ‘ You will all have to put up with a certain amount of unwelcome attention from the Press , but I have warned them that we will not tolerate any interference with your golf .
7 Mind you , you have to put up with a certain amount of check in most jobs , and veterinary practice is no exception .
8 The Roman Catholics were interested that a combination between a Russian refugee , Georges Florovsky , an English high churchman , Michael Ramsey , and a dogmatic Swiss Protestant , Karl Barth , brought the ecumenical movement to an impasse because none of them was prepared to put up with a Protestant federation , and the union of these unlikely allies was too powerful to overcome .
9 ‘ However , I have concluded that it is too much to expect of my colleagues in Government and in Parliament to have to put up with a constant barrage of stories about me in certain tabloid newspapers .
10 intended to stay , because the immediate reaction to something like that happening is n't necessarily erm , all bad , I mean people are quite glad that they are still alive and they 're quite prepared to put up with the possible fallout of the consequences of that so that they can stay in their own homes .
11 Bricks , old tiles , new tiles , quarry tiles , Mexican , French or Spanish tiles , ceramic tiles , slate and even marble facing all look spectacular — provided , of course , that you are prepared to put up with the clattering noise from chairs being pulled up to the table and pushed back .
12 ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’
13 The longer one debates a trivial matter such as whether it is right to put up with the notorious rudeness of the only fishmonger in town or to fight back , the deeper one is enmeshed in an ever-expanding web of implication .
14 The position of women has changed in a number of ways , such that a wife does not have to put up with an unsatisfactory marriage in the way that her mother might well have done .
15 You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you .
16 The friends of David Cunningham , such as Colonel Blackadder , had to be put off with a clear refusal , and a request to persuade Cunningham to withdraw , while at the same time every effort had to be made to engage all those gentlemen who had not committed themselves to a candidate to rally to Kirkton .
17 ‘ Whereas Charles may suffer in silence and put up with an unsatisfactory relationship , Diana 's chart shows she can not live without love .
18 She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face .
19 But at Lowwood , on Windermere , half-crown echoes might be had by those base snobs who would put up with a vile Brummagem substitute for ‘ the genuine article ’ .
20 The range performed these duties , but with a certain reluctance , and I wondered how Otto would put up with a mere cup of water to shave in .
21 Do not say ‘ I 'm young and resilient , I can put up with a vandalised block of flats because it 's a cheap place to live . ’
22 Let's face it , would you put up with a general election campaign lasting one year and one month ?
23 They would gladly put up with a certain level of pregnancy risk if it meant fewer side effects .
24 ‘ Everyone must put up with a certain amount of discomfort from neighbours ’ .
25 Larger fish will , however , put up with a freshwater environment for a short time .
26 Molly could put up with the mysterious fallibility of the electric devices ; she would overcome her husband 's reluctance at the prospect of any sort of adventure .
27 Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth .
28 But later — in the morning , when he could put up with the old boy 's fussing .
29 Obviously he 'd decided it was worth putting up with the foul-smelling smoke for the sake of picking Michael 's experienced brain .
30 Her husband , who had put up with a great deal , and was to put up with much more , was not yet prepared to lose his marital rights .
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