Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] up with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 40 former staff took the opportunity to catch up with old friends and discuss their pension queries with Beryl Aldridge from Pensions Department , Hammersmith . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The man in charge of road mending in one county says they have n't got the money to keep up with repairs . |
| 4 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 5 | The decision to team up with former colleagues from Teesside and South Wales means the campaign is on the way to becoming nationwide . |
| 6 | We expect the authorities to come up with imaginative schemes , designed to tackle specific local crime problems , such as kerb crawling , mugging and burglary . |
| 7 | But then perhaps few have the nerve to speak up with their unit commander and two captains looking on . |
| 8 | It will be up to the SMMB to come up with a scheme that is acceptable to them . ’ |
| 9 | It 's not that the TV folk like to be topical , it 's because they rarely have the nous to come up with anything original . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , dear … ’ she said faintly , unable for the moment to come up with any stronger remark although Miss Needham could probably have obliged . |
| 11 | At the same time the desire to catch up with more advanced industrial neighbours in Western Europe , to found an overseas empire and to break into the lucrative Atlantic Trade system had led Germany into conflict with the British and French . |
| 12 | Thus he was to earn the gratitude of those who , on missing the Looe train at Liskeard , have hurried down the hill to catch up with it at Coombe Junction . |
| 13 | It is then the failure to keep up with the requirements of changing conditions that leads to a substantial ‘ lag load ’ on late life . |
| 14 | Further concern was generated by the failure to keep up with major orders secured by the consortium due to production difficulties . |
| 15 | During the third phase of his enterprise Diaghilev realised the need to keep up with the tastes of his wealthy audiences always anxious to be in fashion and commissioned works from members of the group known as Les Six . |
| 16 | County property manager Ian Gould said there was no pressure on the group to come up with the money immediately . |
| 17 | Leaving Googol to safeguard their equipment , he had hurried with Grimm to the station to meet up with Meh'Lindi . |
| 18 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 19 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
| 20 | The upward flow tank , usually conical or pyramidal in shape , with its widest part at the top , allows the water to flow up with diminishing speed , the solid matter falling to the base , from which it can be removed as a sludge by the hydrostatic head in the tank , scraping gear being unnecessary . |
| 21 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 22 | I stood in the kitchen waiting for the water to heat up with a distinct feeling of eco-smugness . |
| 23 | On Feb. 18 JKLF commander-in-chief Javed Ahmed Mir announced that he would lead a column from the Indian side of the border to link up with the marchers from Azad Kashmir . |
| 24 | Or should it seek weaker competitors or new entrants who are often more accommodating to local policy , but may lack the resources to keep up with the pace of change ? |
| 25 | BAeSEMA has been contracted by the navy to come up with a new design for bridges incorporating the latest in ergonomic practice . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | May is one of the quietest months here which gives us the chance to catch up with maintenance and work days only for a whole . |
| 28 | Maybe it was going to be like the Cultural Revolution in China and we were all going to be given the chance to team up with the aliens . |
| 29 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 30 | Afterwards I could n't believe I had managed to say this ; I could n't believe that I 'd had the intelligence , the wit , the inspiration to come up with this perfect reply . |