Example sentences of "put up with [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I put up with the small pricking claws .
2 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 .
3 ‘ I really am glad to be home , even if it means having to put up with a typical British summer .
4 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 .
5 Natural mothers had to put up with a great deal .
6 As a result of the closure of Owlerton Stadium , they stated , supporters would ‘ have to put up with a certain amount of incontinence ’ .
7 ‘ 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 .
8 They may be content to put up with a certain proportion of customer complaints for a given volume of business .
9 Mind you , you have to put up with a certain amount of check in most jobs , and veterinary practice is no exception .
10 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 .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 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 .
13 And I am not longer prepared to put up with the various parasitical fringe groups , ranging from the self-importantly irrelevant to the downright obnoxious , who are an unchanging part of the demo scene .
14 One should therefore learn how to give orders , and how to put up with the unsuccessful results of one 's efforts ( Notizario , 11,1985 , p. 21 ) .
15 How she was goin' to put up with the wee 'un 's fancy talk and fancy ways , she did n't know .
16 There was talk of the whole station 's being moved into purpose-built accommodation some time in the future , but so far nothing definite had been arranged , so they were forced to put up with the cramped conditions and lack of amenities , like parking .
17 Why , I asked , did he find it acceptable for an artist to have to put up with the paltry sums of money he offered when he himself lived in such style ?
18 Does my right hon. Friend agree that there would not be nearly so many such companies if they had to put up with the economic and industrial policies of the Labour party ?
19 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 .
20 ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’
21 The present players do not have to put up with the old ‘ Chicken Run . ’
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you .
25 ‘ Whereas Charles may suffer in silence and put up with an unsatisfactory relationship , Diana 's chart shows she can not live without love .
26 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 .
27 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 ’ .
28 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 .
29 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 . ’
30 Let's face it , would you put up with a general election campaign lasting one year and one month ?
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