Example sentences of "come up [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not till they had come up onto the green did he realise that the figure in waterproofs pulling the doctor 's trolley was Chris . |
| 2 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 3 | Having realised , I suspect , at least for the time being , that they are not going to get anywhere in their fight for equal prize money at Wimbledon or the French , the Women 's Tennis Association have come up with another proposal which I know has support in some areas but which I certainly hope will also bite the dust . |
| 4 | Then the answer is to combine a fitness routine with something you 're doing already — and that 's why we 've come up with our great series of supermarket trolley exercises ! |
| 5 | But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness . |
| 6 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 7 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , when apprehending a thief with £40 of stolen money , the policemen concerned still argued they had ‘ not come up with anything ’ ( FN 31/1/87 , p. 10 ) . |
| 9 | But we stuck with the same tune that Wally had come up with . |
| 10 | Some time before , Malcolm had come up with a list of half a dozen names . |
| 11 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 12 | The microcomputer firms foresee networks of micros taking over , and the minicomputer firms see networks of minis , while IBM has come up with Systems Application Architecture ( SAA ) , designed to maintain the mainframe 's iron grip on corporate data processing 's throat . |
| 13 | They 've come up with a solar-powered , infrared-pulsating , microchip bee backpack . |
| 14 | David had come up with something that was extremely unoriginal . |
| 15 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she … well … vanished , and so far had come up with nothing . |
| 16 | To try to climb out of the hole it is in , Grumman has come up with a plan to turn its F-14 fighter into a ground-attack aircraft . |
| 17 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 18 | Meanwhile state-owned energy monopolies have come up with their own solution to generating more electricity without angering local environmentalists : moving their power stations to Eastern Europe . |
| 19 | This had been carried out inside the health department and had come up with findings that were easily predictable . |
| 20 | By this meeting Nigel had come up with a further solution : rather than abolish SERPS , he suggested that we modify it to the point that it could be afforded . |
| 21 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 22 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 23 | A FTER persuading the American singer Madonna to become a vice-president , those ageing adventurers at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( ICA ) have come up with another star for their letterhead — President Havel of Czechoslovakia . |
| 24 | But Li Ka-shing , head of Cheung Kong , confirmed he is ‘ interested in some of Olympia 's assets , but has not come up with any solid plans ’ . |
| 25 | Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form . |
| 26 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 27 | JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump . |
| 28 | The Social Democrat Edith Niehuis has come up with the dubious argument that , because of the Catholic approach to female priests ( who have practised in the Protestant Church here for two decades ) , the tax is an ‘ unconstitutional discrimination against women ’ . |
| 29 | By studying regions of the proteins the proteinase cuts , they have come up with a small molecule that can block this scissor action . |
| 30 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |