Example sentences of "[verb] come up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 2 | He warned : ‘ We can not be expected to come up with good ideas if the Government continues to reduce our budget every year . |
| 3 | To prevent a messy legal battle , the TODAY casting couch has come up with alternative stars for the role of Liz and seventh husband Larry . |
| 4 | Following the announcement of its pact with StrataCom Inc and Cisco Systems Inc , AT&T Co has come up with sketchy details of the Asynchronous Transfer Mode service it will begin offering early next year . |
| 5 | The archaeological researcher John Barnatt has recently re-examined alignments , first noted last century , of stone circles onto key peaks on Bodmin Moor in or a wall , and has come up with favourable results . |
| 6 | For mums who want something more convenient than hanks of cotton wool , Púr has come up with Little Tearaways , sheets of flat , highly absorbent 100% cotton wool . |
| 7 | The spartan nature of camping requires that you live on dehydrated food , and since at the time of going to print no manufacturer has come up with dehydrated beer , enforced sobriety will be a big feature of your expedition . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've run fifteen variations of that conversation , and every one has come up with different motivations for the Doctor . |
| 9 | Although the Commissioners are committed not to be swayed by the national interests of their own countries , it is clear that Sir Leon Brittan , the Competition Commissioner , has come up against stiff opposition from his colleagues when he has investigated anti-competitive behaviour in some of their countries , most recently over his veto of the Franco-Italian takeover of De Havilland in October 1991 . |
| 10 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 11 | Last autumn he won round one when President Bush appointed him to lead a cabinet ‘ empowerment task force ’ , told to come up with specific proposals . |
| 12 | A cliché in Beowulf 's time , I know , but you ca n't keep coming up with new games . |
| 13 | For rather than research coming up with unequivocal findings which can then influence and be integrated in a professional and neutral way into policy and practice I will try to demonstrate how political interests and values , in all their guises , influence and pervade the relationship in a variety of ways . |
| 14 | Washington declined his invitation to keep its troops on the island and disappointed Blaize by failing to come up with promised investment to reduce huge unemployment . |
| 15 | If they had interviewed the — what were then termed — clerical officers and assistants , they may well have come up with different results . |
| 16 | ‘ It ca n't be helping much , if you keep coming up with crazy ideas about what I 'm supposed to be up to . ’ |
| 17 | I think the show would have been less timid if he had sought out more of the artists in their 20s who nowadays keep coming up in mixed exhibitions in Liverpool , Birmingham , Leeds , Whitechapel and so on . |
| 18 | Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year . |
| 19 | This is where we 've come up with critical application software . |
| 20 | She and her companion had come up under full sail to my table . |
| 21 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 22 | We 've seen community participation in trying to come up with immediate solutions to the problems resulting from the war — we 're talking particularly about materials and infrastructure . |
| 23 | The government has now accepted the arguments , but it has failed to come up with effective solutions " . |
| 24 | He said Russian president Boris Yeltsin had failed to come up with new ideas and had put politics above the national interest . |
| 25 | If BA fails to come up with new proposals before the deadline , the Virgin chief may pursue a settlement in the US or European courts . |
| 26 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |
| 27 | The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions . |
| 28 | Full details from Editor : We 'd very much like to hear from others who have come up with profitable solutions to this seasonal problem . |
| 29 | As it is , they have two and have come up with various suggestions as to what selectors do their thinking with . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the philologists , putting together the various clues inside the Kalevala — it is bright , it was forged , it is a kind of mill , it brings luck , it made the sea salt — have come up with innumerable solutions , at once vague and pedantic : the sampo was the Golden Fleece , some fertility-cult object , a Lappish pillar-idol , an allegory of the sky . |