Example sentences of "[adj] come [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At a meeting this May the Agricultural Ministers agreed that reform was necessary and gave each other a deadline of June 1993 to come up with concrete proposals .
2 How does all this come out in actual figures ?
3 For this reason it is impossible to come up with universal rules dictating how explanations are to be provided .
4 But if manufacturers were to try too hard to come up with new ideas we 'd be constantly faced with designs to rival Gibson 's semi-mythical Moderne and Burns ' Flyte in the grossness stakes .
5 However , we believe that those who are determined to understand a phenomenon and to follow their research and their intuition wherever they may lead , are on the balance of probabilities , perhaps more likely to come up with new knowledge than those who are trying to solve a narrowly defined problem or to develop a product .
6 Both Soviet and foreign estimates of the numbers threatened with starvation and death over the period 1921–2 varied enormously , and no amount of detailed research is ever likely to come up with reliable figures .
7 Bloke supposed to come in for new business pitch will have got there by now .
8 Unsolicited enquiries are dealt with by telephone and post ; sometimes these come in via other departments .
9 Niall Hammond , of the Bowes Museum , said the three trenches they dug all came up against Victorian foundations of a disused cellar .
10 It all came down to bloody money .
11 On collecting these names I began to wonder whether I was being taken in but so many came up on independent lists that the villagers sent in that I am sure they are authentic .
12 Mary 's quite good coming up with new ideas and new lines of thought on various subjects
13 And it all comes over in hard black and white in his report to me , and I 've really only got what he says to go on , in that sort of case .
14 It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave .
15 Yeah , yeah it all comes down to personal taste
16 Paul Oldfield and Simon Reynolds reckon it all comes down to sexual politics .
17 It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form .
18 That , in his view , is long enough to be able to come up with new ideas and see them implemented .
19 Even if the student is not able to come up with alternative offerings of his or her own , at least he or she can say with some honesty : ‘ I believe that to be the case , and this is why . ’
20 It is important to come up with new ideas .
21 The unions recognise this first meeting is unlikely to come up with immediate proposals , but wants to meet workers to develop a product diversification strategy .
22 But , he maintains , if you do n't throw up a lot of worthless ideas you are unlikely to come up with sensible ones either .
23 It was then but a short — though for many an agonising — step to provide special courses for those coming out of special schools and the remedial classes of comprehensives .
24 but that all took I think , when you 're older when you go grey it 's , it , you look softer and you get away with the grey coming through on white hair .
25 Tonight 's headlines ; Oxford United come back in remarkable fashion from Molyneux , trailing by three goals to nil after twenty four minutes and with four minutes remaining to go , United scored twice to equalise .
26 In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so .
27 Since this is a theoretical chapter it is difficult to come up with practical work .
28 He accepts it 's extremely difficult to come up with conclusive evidence that violent films cause violent behaviour , but that a series of studies in America 20 years ago suggested it was a factor .
29 He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens .
30 And he 's always particularly keen to come up with original melodies .
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