Example sentences of "to come [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That surely Mr Mayor is the very essence of politics , to come up with a modern solution to today 's problems . |
| 32 | Mr Consey told The Art Newspaper , ‘ We are going to try to come up with a modified plan whereby overflow parking may be off-site . |
| 33 | They desperately need a top-class fast bowler and ordered their cricket committee to come up with a suitable candidate . |
| 34 | ‘ Given access to the data back at your office , I should be able to come up with a suitable package . ’ |
| 35 | This precise dilemma led Shaun Mason from Doncaster , South Yorkshire to come up with a tremendous brain-wave . |
| 36 | It was a ritual that distressed Anna Essinger and her staff but , given the pressure to move the children out of the camp so that others could take their places , nobody was able to come up with a better alternative to what was known as ‘ the market ’ . |
| 37 | Town 's reprieve FOOTBALL : A winding-up hearing yesterday gave Northampton chairman Michael McRitchie eight weeks to come up with a financial package to save the debt-crippled club . |
| 38 | It has n't changed but as we said on Friday morning the D of E amongst others have sugg er expressed a view that the panel ought to try to come up with a general location if we can . |
| 39 | Though most merchants say it is too early to come up with a firm idea of the trade , the initial reports on quality suggest some low nitrogens and good bushel weights , at least for the Puffin that seems to predominate at the moment . |
| 40 | I spent hours trying to come up with a brilliant argument that would demolish the ‘ no deals ’ policy in seconds and solve everything . |
| 41 | They have to come up with a long-term training strategy — and offers of help have come from both the World Federation for Mental Health and the Richmond Fellowship . |
| 42 | Certainly the Home Office was unable to come up with a convincing case against such scrutiny by a House which is ‘ elected to protect the democratic rights of [ the ] people ’ . |
| 43 | If the country 's nuclear experts really are as bright as they would like us to think , they should be bright enough to come up with a convincing case for spending so much money , or to find cheaper ways of demonstrating the technology . |
| 44 | She has the rare gift of being able to take a joke against herself , and her command of words and easy rapport enable her to come up with a quick response to most situations . |
| 45 | M and S has also told its hanger suppliers to come up with a safe design . |
| 46 | I mean you may want to er for example , you know in some ways some of the responses may fit in quite nicely as a point on a scale or something like that , you may have some , you know , be able to in fact I advise you to come up with a fair number of quantitative type questions |
| 47 | ‘ We ( the Design Department ) got asked by the Producer of Blue Peter to come up with a full-size Dalek that children could build easily at home for about 10/6d . |
| 48 | To date , no one has been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation . |
| 49 | He would have to be seen a.s.a.p. , and would have to come up with a satisfactory explanation of exactly why and when he 'd left The Randolph . |
| 50 | So he hopes to come up with a special X-ray stain binding to human nerve endings . |
| 51 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 52 | The Party now needed to come up with a longer term programme of how to pave the way towards socialism in China as a whole , paying particular attention to the different economic situation in the south which could indeed significantly influence their future strategy . |
| 53 | ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen . |
| 54 | I 'd got the riding gear from Duncan , but he 'd been unable to come up with a red helmet with black visor . |
| 55 | All you have to do to compete is pick up an entry form , match Italian cities to specified colours on the map , and use your nous to come up with a pithy advertising slogan for Rowney 's Designer Gouache . |
| 56 | The government asked the UK hotel industry to come up with a workable system for implementing the European Commission 's directives on package travel . |
| 57 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 58 | Significantly , although this train is named after a bard who loved the towns and villages of East Anglia , a thorough search of his complete oeuvre fails to come up with a single reference to Lowestoft . |
| 59 | HP figures Sun tried its damnedest to come up with a full-featured workstation under $5,000 but when it looked at the margins , dumbed down the box to create the Classic . |
| 60 | It is very difficult to come up with a sensible definition of what constitutes an ‘ old project ’ . |