Example sentences of "come up [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot . |
| 2 | It is unlikely that we shall come up with a mechanical formula — in quite a number of cases , judgments will be necessary ; but I would be surprised if the guiding principles did not lead to pretty definite answers in the majority of cases . |
| 3 | However the conservationists and oil companies both agree that President Bush must now come up with a viable energy policy . |
| 4 | Unless Mr Aznar can come up with a convincing exposition of his economic policies , he could see his lead slip away once again . |
| 5 | The late and sadly missed Roy Kinnear and Kenneth Williams would always help you out at a moment 's notice , and not only that , they 'd come up with a great performance . |
| 6 | We were asked to erm come up with a new structure erm , and and it , the purpose of this report and to put that . |
| 7 | The difficult search for a replacement for Bean after his retirement did not come up with a suitable candidate ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) . |
| 8 | It is quite possible to use your own system of bar codes if you can come up with a suitable application . |
| 9 | Why ca n't someone come up with a better boot than a rubber one ? |
| 10 | Even Nails , Hoomey thought proudly , could n't come up with a better name than that . |
| 11 | A resolution passed by the Democrat-controlled House 27 votes to 13 advises Exxon to renegotiate and come up with a better offer . |
| 12 | Unless someone can come up with a better answer . |
| 13 | There were , however , some cases in which the model did not come up with a valid parse , that is , a pattern that represents complete coverage of the input by a set of nonoverlapping words . |
| 14 | You will have to explain exactly why the first report was useless , why the particular expert was chosen and why you think that a new expert would come up with a case-winning report . |
| 15 | Grayling reckons that he has about another two years of research to do before he can come up with a conclusive report . |
| 16 | Before he could come up with a satisfactory formulation they were joined by Georgina , the chairman 's daughter by his first marriage . |
| 17 | Occasionally these protégés would come up with a one-off prestige film which could be used to show how respectable and serious Hollywood had become . |
| 18 | What , if anything , should disconcert us if we can not come up with a trouble-free definition ? |
| 19 | Even the Commission , with all its enthusiasm for EMU , could only come up with a potential saving of between 0.1% and 0.5% of the Community 's GDP , and even this did not take into account new costs of changing the ecu into other , non-EC currencies . |
| 20 | ATP could always come up with a few money-spinners in its annual output , but the lavish location and studio work on Whom the Gods Love , Dean 's film on the life of Mozart , irritated board chairman Sir Stephen Courtauld , who began to argue that Dean was doing too much stage work , and had alienated George Formby . |
| 21 | But , given the money , I know we could come up with a British winner . ’ |
| 22 | In due course ( usually about the end of January ) such Bills will come up for a second reading , i.e. they will appear again on the order paper for consideration during private business , the first item on the Houses ' agenda after prayers , usually 2.35 to 2.40 or 2.45 p.m . |
| 23 | So th th th the , the outline agrarian law is simply a means of ensuring that everybody will come up to a middle peasant status . |
| 24 | But they will come up against a different side this time . ’ |