Example sentences of "put up [adj] [noun] [prep] " 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 | They have also worked through the night when needed to — quite literally — put up new flyovers by the following morning . |
| 4 | Fireworks is chartered to co-ordinate varied but related businesses to ensure early marketing of leading-edge multimedia systems ; create joint ventures and alliances with other firms ; put up initial funding for promising , pioneering multimedia services under development by entrepreneurs outside IBM ; and take responsibility for IBM 's worldwide multimedia marketing strategy and co-ordinate it across lines of business . |
| 5 | In the example , both counterparties put up initial margin on day 1 of 200 , which is 20 per cent of the value of the contract at the beginning of day 1 . |
| 6 | Do you know , in the first World War , when he was Commander-in-Chief , they put up wooden statues of him in all the towns and you could pay and hammer a nail in it ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Of Akragas , which put up more temples in the fifth century than any other Mediterranean city except Athens , Diodorus says ( xi.25 ; cp. xiii – .81 ) ‘ her revenue was derived originally from the large indemnities levied against Carthage after Himera . |
| 9 | The day after she came I put up another roll of chicken wire . ’ |
| 10 | The assumption will normally be met for long positions in shares , but for short positions the potential losses are infinite and , if there has been a substantial rise in the index , a short seller may be required to put up additional funds before delivery . |
| 11 | As Rafiq disappeared out of sight at the top of the stairs , Maisie staggered in with a step-ladder and started to put up black drapes at the windows . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This was due to the lack of glycerine anti-freeze in the water , and Thomas was instructed to censure the man concerned and to put up printed instructions about cold weather precautions . |
| 14 | Another effect of the development of the hard woody stem is that , as soon as they are established , climbers drop the tendency to put up new growth from ground level ( as ramblers do ) and so pruning has to follow a different principle ( see pages 54–72 ) . |
| 15 | On June 12 an accord was signed between the RPR and the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) allowing for the two parties to put up joint candidates at local and legislative elections . |
| 16 | Perhaps she had often had to put up this kind of defence Ianthe thought . |
| 17 | A call for opposition party pacts to put up single candidates against Conservative MPs and seek the ‘ total defeat ’ of the Tories as the only way to ensure a Scottish parliament is also likely to get short shrift from the leadership . |
| 18 | They started to put up big screens behind the altar blocking off some of the stained glass and writing on those big screens the Creed or the Lord 's Prayer in English , which was done in the seventeenth and eighteenth century . |
| 19 | Just like the CEGB and ‘ proof ’ of a link between pollution and damage to lakes , the Commission put up one condition after another as a ‘ test ’ of whether Britain 's trees were showing decline , and then replaced it with a new argument if it was satisfied . |
| 20 | Government officials insisted that they were not going to build walls or put up barbed wire round the embassies . |
| 21 | They were no less enthused when Mr Rice put up some film of seriously ordinary people , the sort of folk the average celebrity sees across a crash barrier . |
| 22 | Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH put up some money for the development of Viking , and Memorex Telex NV had been planning to market the product too , but is understood to have pulled out . |
| 23 | You must have skidded over it one way and then it tipped back and put up this sort of tooth , like a ratchet , look . ’ |
| 24 | The party put up twenty-three candidates at the Coupon Election in 1918 , but only Croft and Cooper were elected . |
| 25 | One can put up all kinds of contributory explanations for it , but none seems central enough to be convincing . |
| 26 | ‘ I could put up some sort of valiant struggle for survival . ’ |
| 27 | Last night , on ’ Newsnight ’ , Mr. Brendan Bruce , the former director of communications for the Tories , said : ’ No-one sensible in the Tory Party actually believes the Labour Party would put up public spending by £37 billion ’ . |
| 28 | Where do you think that more money needs to be spent ? erm well , the government are in the process of launching a massive new initiative called Care in the Community erm I 'm afraid a lot of people working in my neck of the woods find this rather well not amusing , but erm it 's slightly hysterically amusing , because the amount of money that would be needed to fund the projects that are identified as being necessary is enormous , and the government is in no way going to be putting up that sort of funds erm so it comes down to money , and particularly in this community care area . |
| 29 | Welcome back : For hundreds of years people with more money than sense have been putting up strange buildings on their land that seem to have no point whatsoever . |
| 30 | I DO N'T agree that putting up armed roadblocks in Britain is giving in to the IRA . |