Example sentences of "[to-vb] up with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 2 | While the bulk of the day was taken up in full discussions with Ewen Muncro , time was also found to meet up with some important business customers . |
| 3 | This is a branch of the Association devoted to the more senior ex-Manorians who would like to meet up with old friends , but who find it difficult to join in with the annual reunions . |
| 4 | For the travellers it 's a chance to meet up with old friends and enjoy themselves . |
| 5 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 6 | My husband suffered a stroke two years ago which has left him partially sighted , but he loves to meet up with old colleagues . |
| 7 | This is always a very popular event , one where you have the opportunity to meet up with old friends and we hope make new ones ; so please obtain your tickets early to avoid disappointment . |
| 8 | But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high . |
| 9 | Sometimes , too , it is possible to make the mistake of thinking that she is expecting us to come up with all the answers when , often , all she wants is the opportunity to state the problem to someone who understands and will not criticise her . |
| 10 | The producer/singer 's record company has been forced to come up with all kinds of excuses . |
| 11 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 12 | We 've seen community participation in trying to come up with immediate solutions to the problems resulting from the war — we 're talking particularly about materials and infrastructure . |
| 13 | The unions recognise this first meeting is unlikely to come up with immediate proposals , but wants to meet workers to develop a product diversification strategy . |
| 14 | Police committee Chairman Colin Hay said he does n't expect the new man to come up with instant solutions to the problem of rising crime : |
| 15 | ‘ That 's one way of describing it , ’ Bernice said , but she could n't be bothered to come up with other , less half-hearted quips . |
| 16 | ‘ Is there something , ’ George asked icily , ‘ about the atmosphere of this place that causes you to come up with such expressions ? |
| 17 | Devlin said , ‘ A remarkable fella , your cousin , to come up with such a prime piece of information so easily . ’ |
| 18 | That , in his view , is long enough to be able to come up with new ideas and see them implemented . |
| 19 | However , we believe that those who are determined to understand a phenomenon and to follow their research and their intuition wherever they may lead , are on the balance of probabilities , perhaps more likely to come up with new knowledge than those who are trying to solve a narrowly defined problem or to develop a product . |
| 20 | But if manufacturers were to try too hard to come up with new ideas we 'd be constantly faced with designs to rival Gibson 's semi-mythical Moderne and Burns ' Flyte in the grossness stakes . |
| 21 | He said Russian president Boris Yeltsin had failed to come up with new ideas and had put politics above the national interest . |
| 22 | The onus now lay upon the architect to come up with new designs and new ideas with which to counter the rapidly growing effectiveness of artillery aided , from about 1430 , by the reversion to the use of cast-iron shot which , although more expensive than stone shot , did not shatter on impact , could be made more uniformly in greater quantities ( the making of stone shot was , to say the least , laborious ) and in smaller calibre , thereby increasing efficiency by reducing the need for very large and unwieldy cannon . |
| 23 | This was followed by Lord Arran 's speech at the Balmoral Show where , according to some reports , Lord Arran seemed to challenge his own civil servants to come up with new ideas . |
| 24 | It is important to come up with new ideas . |
| 25 | If BA fails to come up with new proposals before the deadline , the Virgin chief may pursue a settlement in the US or European courts . |
| 26 | He warned : ‘ We can not be expected to come up with good ideas if the Government continues to reduce our budget every year . |
| 27 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 28 | Since this is a theoretical chapter it is difficult to come up with practical work . |
| 29 | The government has now accepted the arguments , but it has failed to come up with effective solutions " . |
| 30 | And they 'll press shops and trolley manufacturers to come up with better designs and clearer instructions . |