Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Quebec government , however , warned the federal government and the English-speaking provinces that if they failed to come up with an acceptable constitutional solution , Quebec would proceed with its own independence referendum by October 1992 . |
| 2 | DEC is struggling to come up with a clear , forthright statement on its Unix policy for a worldwide briefing it 's planning on holding February 10 . |
| 3 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 7 | The clean channel is too clean , and beyond a certain volume ( which is painful ! ) the sounds starts to break up into a rough distortion ( presumably the point at which the speaker starts to flap ) . |
| 8 | The good news was he was expected to show up with a large coke consignment for processing , cutting and distributing ; the bad news was he would now not come near the place . |
| 9 | I want to restore my 1967 LWB and hope to end up with a functional , economic vehicle . |
| 10 | He was standing well apart from them as he gave Joe and his mother the details , and as the tears rolled down his cheeks Joe sensed a great loneliness in his cousin that seemed to link up with a similar feeling within himself , and he was drawn to Martin to put his arms about him , and when their faces touched both were wet . |
| 11 | But much food aid is stolen as it is unloaded at the ports ; and army-escorted convoys manage to lose up to a third of their cargoes on the way . |
| 12 | One of these days Sam is going to come up against a good old time proper door . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Many men battled valiantly with what they conceived of as temptation and strove to live up to a higher ideal of married life , and few women , including leading feminists , would have thought of demanding more . |
| 15 | Oh right they 've got to add up to a hundred and eighty |
| 16 | I saw Lukic launch into the tackle and it looked , for all the world , like it was going to end up as a foul but I could n't see if it was outside the area . |
| 17 | Not every idea we have is going to end up as a full research project . |
| 18 | The client may say , ‘ My heart was beating so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack ’ , or , ‘ I ca n't cope any more ’ , or , ‘ I think I 'm going to end up in a mental hospital ’ . |
| 19 | They confirmed to make up to a thousand different messages You know that Chinese shop in Woking ? |
| 20 | Faced with this unprecedented , unique and , above all , fearsomely complex challenge , the West is just beginning to come up with an unprecedented , unique , and also fearsomely complex response . |
| 21 | We are not expecting to come up with a definitive plan to seize power ! ! but rather to begin to discuss some of the issues which are reducing the impact we are having . |
| 22 | Perhaps the topic that worries you may be scheduled to come up in a later training session — but it happens today . |
| 23 | So if you know that just by opening the door you 're bound to end up with a space-age vacuum cleaner , 50 encyclopaedias , a new patio or a tarmac-covered drive , you could try hiding in the broom cupboard until he 's gone . |
| 24 | Even at this stage he was thinking of the day he would bring a murderer into court and his evidence would have to stand up to a hostile defence counsel . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
| 27 | Well , I 'm terribly sorry if I did n't add another notch to your bedpost , but look on the bright side — at least I saved you the bother of having to come up with a nice little farewell speech at the end of it all . |
| 28 | The SSC will hold a meeting in June , when all sorts of would-be participants will try to come up with a new detector . |
| 29 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 30 | ‘ I really am glad to be home , even if it means having to put up with a typical British summer . |