Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have had to put up with inferior accommodation , lousy food and paltry pocket money . |
| 32 | Sincerely though I respect the wish of hon. Members on both sides of the House to ensure that their constituents can benefit from access to the channel tunnel — I have no desire to stand in the way of their efforts to make that wish come true — I urge that the interests of my constituents , who will have to put up with untold misery for an extended eight-year period , should be given closer consideration than BR has given them hitherto . |
| 33 | In addition to all that , my constituents will have to put up with untold damage to their lives , homes , shops and other properties — both immediately and in the years to come . |
| 34 | Unlike Mazda the bankruptcy of the Sanko Steamship Co. in 1985 did not stir any great sympathy because the company management had a previous record of arrogance ‘ likened to that of a rowdy lone wolf refusing to line up with other shipping firms ’ ( FTW31/8/85 ) . |
| 35 | They do look at the statistics the government statistics for fertility and mortality , but they have then the ability to amend , to adjust to local erm to match up with local information . |
| 36 | Given the interest of Bakeman and Brown in finding early signposts to later development , it seems ironic that their sophisticated and hard-won ‘ dialogic variables ’ should fail to match up to personal intuition . |
| 37 | If the style of the pot is deliberately changed when it is copied , particularly if the decoration is being changed to keep up with current fashion , the differences between earlier and later pots are even more noticeable . |
| 38 | As trade in services soars , taxmen will find it harder to keep up with clever finance directors . |
| 39 | Your sound engineer should mix the out-front sound at every gig and attend rehearsals regularly to keep up with new material . |
| 40 | Once one of the world 's most profitable firms , Big Blue last year tumbled to a record-breaking $1 billion loss as it struggled to keep up with technical change , plummeting prices and a wave of new competition in the computer market . |
| 41 | But , the odd unscripted upset aside , the chairmen and chairwomen find it hard to keep up with torrential voting in favour of the leadership line . |
| 42 | Excuse my ignorance , but living in the ‘ plains ’ of the US makes it very hard to keep up with English soccer ( er , football ! ) especially Leeds a team that I 've benn supporting for close to 20 years now . |
| 43 | Now the company is hard put to keep up with overseas demand and last year sold over 40,000 cars , making a pre-tax profit of over £120m . |
| 44 | Indeed far from being fearful of continued public objection , local authorities should be more concerned about their ability to be able to keep up with public demand for calming various residential areas once the ideas take off . |
| 45 | America , having no domestic jet development programme to match either of these two aircraft , was struggling just to keep up with large French and British orders of existing fighters and light bombers let alone worry about ‘ jets ’ . |
| 46 | Probably it would be a good idea to read up on free drop rules before the round ! |
| 47 | In the past , fisheries have been able to start up without adequate information about either the target stock or its role in ocean ecology . |
| 48 | Nevertheless , chronic anxiety , in a horse can cause various skin troubles which refuse to clear up with veterinary treatment and antibiotics , but which miraculously disappear when there is a reduction of anxiety . |
| 49 | To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm . |
| 50 | Being compact , it 's easy to soak up in just couple of days , making it the perfect place for a quiet weekend . |
| 51 | However , constructions like 28 , where the subject of the main clause is a ‘ heavy ’ NP , seem not to turn up in Scottish English , although they are usual in Somerset English : |
| 52 | Certainly , this does not have to be prenominal ; we can also expect it to turn up in postnominal attribution , and it does , in sentences like ( 13 ) ( a ) and ( b ) : ( 13 ) ( a ) the fish gutted lay waiting for the wholesalers ( b ) the fish , gutted , lay waiting for the wholesalers In the background of ( a ) , but not of ( b ) , there are other fish which have not undergone the same treatment . |
| 53 | Still , ‘ Arry Boy was good enough to dress up as Old Father Time for our exclusive picture . |
| 54 | Facilities for yachts are limited and in the country 's current economic turmoil visiting yachtsmen would be wise to stock up with adequate fuel and provisions to last the duration of their visit . |
| 55 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 56 | I did n't want to wake up with blue lightning any more than you did . |
| 57 | Its significance will be far-reaching , and this should be hardly surprising since similar considerations already dictate our legal and moral procedures for dealing with those human beings who , for whatever reasons , fail to measure up to normal competence . |
| 58 | He also has some good friends at school and the company of the Christine family and of course Uncle Kevin and Auntie Linda , the new hostel parents , so please continue to pray for them all , as they continue to face up to continued separation from their parents . |
| 59 | Judith Chegwidden , of Putney CLP , said a Labour government must be tough enough to face up to special interest groups and those , including herself , who had ‘ dangerous consumerist tendencies and want to own motor cars in urban areas — cars that pour out pollution and make people 's lives a misery ’ . |
| 60 | The signs may wax and wane , and the longer it is before a diagnosis is made , the more likely the dog is to end up with long-term arthritis , another disease where preventive measures are very easy and effective . |