Example sentences of "put up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glad of the work , they put up with shabby trailers , long hours and sketchy benefits . |
| 2 | I mean people put up with sexual harassment because of the power imbalance . |
| 3 | Bournville and New Earswick were followed by other estates put up by Industrial Housing Associations such as Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight , and many more recent ones , to the present number of about fifty-four . |
| 4 | Another material used for guttering is aluminium , which is sometimes joined with silicone or butyl-based sealants and sometimes put up in long lengths by the supplier . |
| 5 | Had to put up with poor BBC radio reception . |
| 6 | Supporters of BOTTS COMMON CORINTHIANS will no longer have to put up with annoying cancellations or last-minute postponements because of a frost-ravaged pitch during the winter months . |
| 7 | The bottom line was that there was nothing for them to do and those thoroughbred young men were too bright and too vigorous to put up with endless bull . |
| 8 | Excerpts from the letter read : ‘ All too often these days customers have to put up with defective and unsatisfactory goods , and , at best , an indifferent attitude by retailers and manufacturers to their problems and complaints . |
| 9 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 10 | Managing the operation is Petre 's son Dominic , 25 , who actually lives in the house and will have to put up with disrupted weekends . |
| 11 | Managing the operation is Petre 's son Dominic , 25 , who actually lives in the house and will have to put up with disrupted weekends . |
| 12 | If you were unfortunate enough to get a bad cook it took a while before the powers that be realised it , so you had to put up with inedible food for weeks . |
| 13 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 14 | She would have to put up with occasional Sinatra-outs until she was out of the tank . |
| 15 | I s'pose now we has to put up with young Doctor Lovell dashing in and out again before you can tell him what ails you . ’ |
| 16 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 17 | What is so humbling is the fact that workers see it as their lot in life to put up with bad management for the social structure is such that they do not see themselves as having [ the ] qualities of managers . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Government 's proposals to introduce powers to prevent local authorities from excessive spending by means of capping will be very well received by all those in Labour-controlled authorities who have to put up with excessive tax bills ? |
| 19 | I have had to put up with inferior accommodation , lousy food and paltry pocket money . |
| 20 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the ever-increasing frustration and anger among hundreds of my constituents in Grays , Tilbury and South Ockendon , who almost on a weekly basis have to put up with large invasions of mobile itinerants on land near where they live ? |
| 21 | Money problems are not the only difficulties facing women whose pregnancy was unexpected and unwanted ; the nausea of morning sickness and later on their appearance can prove traumatising to women , especially schoolgoers who have to put up with constant rumours and whispering . |
| 22 | But fretbuzz is a very subjective thing ; I 've met a number of players who will sacrifice all for a low playing action and are quite happy to put up with extraneous noises that others would run a mile to avoid . |
| 23 | In addition to all that , my constituents will have to put up with untold damage to their lives , homes , shops and other properties — both immediately and in the years to come . |
| 24 | Sincerely though I respect the wish of hon. Members on both sides of the House to ensure that their constituents can benefit from access to the channel tunnel — I have no desire to stand in the way of their efforts to make that wish come true — I urge that the interests of my constituents , who will have to put up with untold misery for an extended eight-year period , should be given closer consideration than BR has given them hitherto . |
| 25 | Until then Ron will have to put up with sleepless nights . |
| 26 | An invisible barrier put up between different departments in a financial organisation , preventing them from discussing matters which could give rise to a conflict of interest . |
| 27 | But mostly I remember the fishing and if it had n't been for having to carry a gas mask , go without sweets and put up with loud bangs in the middle of the night , I would hardly have known a war was going on . |
| 28 | A sympathetic doctor may help and so will friends and family ready to give support and put up with unreasonable behaviour for the first few weeks or more . |
| 29 | Friends of the Earth water campaigner Linda Stupples said : ‘ The report fails to discuss the real options and blindly assumes the consumer either has to pay up or put up with polluted water . |
| 30 | They ate simply , put up in basic hotels and , in these pre-tourism days , saw few foreigners . |