Example sentences of "up with the [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bound up with the question of compliance with specification is the question of acceptance , since , until the goods have been accepted by the buyer , the seller can not be sure that he has discharged his basic liability to perform the contract , even if he has delivered the goods to the buyer .
2 This is why I maintain that both when and how these funds will be spent is closely bound up with the question of morality .
3 Because the Spirit was tied up with the person of Jesus .
4 Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism .
5 Like its fragmented nature , housework 's ‘ never-endingness ’ is so much bound up with the idea of housework that the two are not conceived apart .
6 The evolutionist schemes are too abstract and simple to comprehend the diverse political systems which have emerged within the largely separate political histories of different regions of the world ; and in spite of all the qualifications that have been introduced they are too closely bound up with the idea of progress — if not unilinear then at least converging upon the same end — to entertain the possibility that political systems might be repeated , mutatis mutandis , in the course of history : that new kinds of autocracy or new forms of empire might succeed democratic regimes .
7 They are not perhaps the kind of remarks to be found in Christmas crackers , but they suggest that his humour was bound up with the idea of self-parody : he is mocking the pontifical manner which others associated with him .
8 A major difficulty , here , is that the idea of communication is tied up with the idea of intention , and intention is a very tricky concept in literary criticism .
9 Although Newcastle is having to run very hard to catch up with the mechanics of community care , Roycroft thinks that in terms of the spirit of the act , the city is already way ahead .
10 Linking up with the revival of interest in Byzantine civilisation occasioned by the current exhibition at the Louvre Macula , too , have taken Byzantium as their theme , publishing Les Origines de l'ésthetique méediévale , three texts written in 1945 by André Grabar on the links between Neo-Platonism and Byzantine art .
11 STEPPING OUT The Director of SHIRLEY VALENTINE teams up with the stars of EDUCATING RITA and CABARET
12 Jacques , you said this Rauff has been mixed up with the likes of Dauphin , Giselle and Umbretti .
13 However my own opinion , for what it is worth , is that the possibility of making moral judgements is inextricably mixed up with the possession of language capability in quite a different form from that which has been shown to exist in experimental domesticated apes .
14 Its life is bound up with the achievement of tasks or programmes , and is realised through them .
15 The City and the Grassroots argued , on the other hand , that successful urban social movements must confront state domination ( the tendency being for such domination to be centralised and tied up with the interests of monopoly capital ) and recognise the nature of local culture and experience .
16 When he gets time off from a fairly packed schedule after The Eleventh Station he 'll be teaming up with the Muscles from Brussels , Jean Claude van Damme , in a film called Universal Soldier Dolph relaxes by playing the drums .
17 The Scots caught up with the Britons on land that is now part of Coilsfield Mains farm .
18 That , of course , is bound up with the issue of income maintenance .
19 There is also considerable evidence that even people entitled to , for instance , free glasses , must still contribute significant amounts to the cost , because the value of the benefit has not kept up with the cost of glasses .
20 Firstly , State pensions are keeping well up with the cost of living .
21 This deviation from Beveridge 's plan made the scheme expensive to general taxation , and probably tended to prevent the adoption of benefit levels sufficient to provide subsistence incomes to those with no other resources and to inhibit subsequent increases to keep up with the cost of living .
22 Town are up with the pacemakers for promotion .
23 I stretch up with the bundle of sticks , thread and cardboard fairies ( or angels or whatever they 're supposed to be ) .
24 Glaxo Group Research says it does not have a career break scheme because it believes that ‘ it would be too difficult for our scientists to keep up with the pace of change if they were away from work for an extended period ’ .
25 Global-scale investments in new skills and production approaches that can readily be transferred across borders have replaced much of the trade ; few can keep up with the pace of change .
26 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 ?
27 Keeping up with the pace of change
28 Carrying a cross brought back from Jerusalem before them , the " army of peace " caught up with the Brabançons at Malemort , near Brive , and relieved their outraged feelings in an orgy of slaughter .
29 A vast bulk of political time was taken up with the importunacy of subjects : petitions for an office or a wardship or a lease of Crown land ; begging letters for pensions ; suits for a pardon ; requests for the Crown 's help in a law-case .
30 He himself comes up with the plan of delegation , and he empowers the seventy elders for their tasks once they are chosen .
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