Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] come up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Venice Soprintendenza certainly does not intend to miss out on such an opportunity and has already come up with a proposal , ‘ Dal Museo alla città ’ ( From Museum to City ) , which it estimates would cost L3.8 billion ( £1.76 million ; $3 million ) . |
| 2 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 3 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 4 | In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% . |
| 5 | R. W. Blake in the Zoology Department of the University of British Columbia , who made the discovery , has even come up with a name for the strategy . |
| 6 | As well as the scent of ‘ mother 's scalp ’ — the first reassuring odour a new-born baby smells — there is a natural sea scent to overwhelm the chlorine in swimming pools , and even cow-pat perfume for which no one has yet come up with a use . |
| 7 | For anyone who has yet to come up with an idea , BVP will provide access into the venture portfolio of 140 successful US products , established by companies which have already developed their product and secured a significant market share . |
| 8 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 9 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 10 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 11 | They 've also come up with the quaint idea of having a T-shirt recycling stall in the club where you can take your old T-shirts and get a new Dodgy one in exchange . |
| 12 | They 've also come up with an amendment to the English battle hymn of recent years : ‘ Swing low , sweet chariot , coming for to carry me home — wards to think again . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 14 | Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget . |
| 15 | Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer . |
| 16 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 17 | We like your cleverness Has he given it more thought , he 's just come up with a really clever idea I think there |
| 18 | ‘ Operators have been in discussion with the Health and Safety Executive for some time , and we have now come up with a code of practice accepted by the HSE and drawn up by BERSA ( British Elastic Ropes Sports Association ) . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ No hitches so far , and he 's even come up with a little bonus on the side . |
| 20 | On the other hand , commentators on English have recently come up with a startling reversal : they have begun to argue that natural gender , traditionally defined as a classification based on sex reference , is really a grammatical phenomenon . |