Example sentences of "up with the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of La Fura Dels Baus came up with the violent cartoon ‘ performance ’ — executives running manically on huge treadmills , hyper-fetishistic female fatales staging S&M routines , gold-painted bicycling centaurs and the metal minotaur . |
| 2 | Alderson is revealingly described : ‘ poor old John Alderson [ has ] gone careering off the rails , [ and is ] now shacked up with the liberal party … an intellectual liberal reformer with radical ideas [ whose ] philosophical mumbo jumbo , often incomprehensible , and not very original , did nothing to impress ’ . |
| 3 | And in an effort to keep up with the rival performance claims of manufacturers running its database for the purposes of TPC-A and TPC-B benchmarking the company has put together a comparison table : |
| 4 | So , we 've come up with the Practical PC-ometer . |
| 5 | Concrete must be used within four house of mixing , and it is usually easier to keep up with the latter type , which is laid as it is mixed . |
| 6 | I do n't remember waking up with the blinding realization that it was time to go : it was more like a very gradual awareness that there simply was n't an alternative . |
| 7 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 8 | Another way of seeing Cutler 's position , especially his historical schema , is as a conflation of Marx and Marshall McLuhan ; ‘ mode of production ’ as organizing concept gets mixed up with the Canadian communication theorist 's ‘ medium is the message ’ philosophy , in which consciousness , cultural forms and social organization all derive primarily from the effects of the various media . |
| 9 | Fashanu has the ability to charm FA disciplinarians and once at Lancaster Gate came up with the immortal line ‘ Would a Bernado 's boy do something like that ’ when pleading his case after a tunnel clash with Viv Anderson . |
| 10 | Most days have been taken up with the unreported routine of minor incidents occurring twice or three times a day : suspect devices , random gun shots and the like . |
| 11 | I think the Court of Bank of Ireland has come up with the greatest riddle since 1782 , when an Act of Parliament established the Bank . |
| 12 | In addition , Harland & Wolff has teamed up with the Japanese manufacturing giant Kawasaki , and so far has sent 60 people across to the Japanese yards to study their methods . |
| 13 | Diversity can only be increased through a body set up with the specific task of creating and sustaining new media . |
| 14 | ‘ She is fed up with the naval life ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's very new to me ; it 's just too bad that they still have n't come up with the perfect guitar synth . |
| 16 | Sure enough he came up with the perfect solution . |
| 17 | Comprising of a completely new type of lotion and pinless , lightweight rollers , this unique technique has been introduced to keep up with the increasing demand for 90 's sets . |
| 18 | Maureen came up with the ingenious idea of making a sling . |
| 19 | This may , indeed , have some merit , but by itself it is not likely to help with decisions about major investments to keep up with the technological race . |
| 20 | The BBC itself , via its Enterprises section , rescued the day by coming up with the other half of a total £450,000 budget . |
| 21 | The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half . |
| 22 | It is expected that the Home Office will come up with the other half of the sum . |
| 23 | A young wildebeest is able to run almost as soon as it is born , for it must be able to keep up with the other wildebeest when they flee a predator . |
| 24 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 25 | His plan was based on the marine lieutenant landing at the Old Quay slipway in the North Harbour and creating a diversion there , while Jones himself landed , undetected it was hoped , on the south foreshore , put the battery there out of action and then , passing round the town , knocked out the North Battery , before joining up with the other party to burn the shipping in both harbours . |
| 26 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 27 | Finally , David Stirling intended to take a small party and penetrate right through the enemy lines to join up with the First Army , which had landed in Algeria . |
| 28 | It was only when Cairo confirmed their names and service numbers that they were given the honoured status of the first Eighth Army troops to meet up with the First Army . |
| 29 | To catch up with the first part of the competition , the August issue can be obtained from our Back Issues Service , see p51 . |
| 30 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |