Example sentences of "put up [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doe 's forces put up stiffer resistance to the rebel groupings than was expected , and were able to hold the area of Monrovia around the heavily fortified executive mansion . |
| 2 | Have the local residents put up much objection to these new extension plans ? |
| 3 | Neither MacLeod nor Michael Weir was available four days earlier when Hibs put up spirited resistance to Aberdeen and came within minutes of getting at least one point . |
| 4 | Although by early 1945 Japan 's power was weakening considerably , her forces continued to put up still resistance to the American advances in the Pacific . |
| 5 | From your response last year to the Questionnaire , clearly you felt that the Medau Society should begin putting up tougher resistance to commercial pressure and taking more positive approaches to publicity , advertising and the media . |
| 6 | Immediately after her portrait is completed Nicholas woos her in a typically crude , fabliau manner , presented by the narrator in appropriately marked , fabliau language : Alison puts up some resistance to this rude assault ( 3282 – 7 ) but as Nicholas persists , crying mercy and speaking fair , she seems in the end to be a relatively easy conquest for him ( 3288 – 93 ) . |