Example sentences of "[noun sg] come [adv prt] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can a series of fixed instructions cause the computer to come up with a random sequence of results ? |
| 2 | Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 3 | The government asked the UK hotel industry to come up with a workable system for implementing the European Commission 's directives on package travel . |
| 4 | Angela 's mummy came back with the red mack . |
| 5 | Mr Branson demanded his rival came up with a large compensation settlement for its three years of customer poaching and publicity smears . |
| 6 | You , dear Ruth , with your successful company , your beauty , your intelligence , how could you let your sensibility come up with the very idea that Maria Luisa 's baby is mine ? ’ |
| 7 | I lock the door ; as I move away from it , a small , faint red light comes on with a tiny clinking noise , high up in one far corner of the room . |
| 8 | Late in the afternoon , a porter came along with a creaking trolley carrying a coffee urn and snackstuffs , and everyone stirred to a kind of frisky wakefulness and examined the fare keenly . |
| 9 | Then in the 1960s British Rail came up with a novel idea for a faster train . |
| 10 | We could put ourselves in three lots of two and your mum came in with the three pizzas we 'd get one between us so we get a half . |
| 11 | For the record , Olivier 's 1978 elephant census came up with the following figures : |
| 12 | All you have to do to compete is pick up an entry form , match Italian cities to specified colours on the map , and use your nous to come up with a pithy advertising slogan for Rowney 's Designer Gouache . |
| 13 | They desperately need a top-class fast bowler and ordered their cricket committee to come up with a suitable candidate . |
| 14 | The Vanishing puts this vibe to good use by matching the metaphysical feel of the European road movie with the narrative pace of the post-Hitchcock thriller to come up with an intriguing , slightly disjointed meditation on death , desire and motorway café culture . |
| 15 | The archaeology proposal came in with a standard white , upper-class male name attached to it , a safe BBC voice , and I said , ‘ Lovely idea , ca n't stand the presenter . |
| 16 | The midfield players and forwards from which Roxburgh will choose his team have amassed 31 goals for Scotland and the national coach came up with a cinematic analogy to summarise the task against Malta . |
| 17 | When I was in the hospital after I 'd had Baby , a bloke came round with the different contraceptives , saying which one are you going to use . |
| 18 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 19 | He noted the awed curiosity on the younger man 's face on hearing his name , but the boy came back with a swift answer . |
| 20 | In a way , failure to come through with the right steps is deception , because most social interaction is based on expectations of behaviour and to set up expectations and then thwart them must qualify as deception . |
| 21 | Pensioner members at their recent Biennial General Meeting came up with a novel suggestion which would enable Pensioner members contribute to the Frank Holden Defence Fund ( see March ‘ Newsheet ’ for details of case ) in a manner that would add substantially to the Fund without denting pensioners ' cash flow . |
| 22 | Beyond the curtains , the rain came down with a sudden clatter on the roof of the Ropewalk below . |
| 23 | Few are in any doubt that there is plenty more pain to come , and it may well be that the interim management is now expected to clear the decks , steel itself to announce another enormous net loss for the current quarter and let the new chief executive and team come in with a clean sheet . |
| 24 | It means that if the engineer comes up with a different story they can use this to embarrass the plaintiff at trial . |
| 25 | But an Air Force investigation into the accident comes up with no clear cause for the crash . |
| 26 | After a two-hour meeting , the Lib Dem leader , Jim Wallace , said his party had given the organisation another chance to come up with a new way forward . |
| 27 | BAeSEMA has been contracted by the navy to come up with a new design for bridges incorporating the latest in ergonomic practice . |
| 28 | Richard and John barred any further advance by holding Châteauroux long enough to permit their father to come up with the main Angevin army and force Philip to raise the siege . |
| 29 | J. Chapman , Sledmere Drive , Acklam , Middlesbrough : I was a final year pharmacy student in Sunderland and I was setting up apparatus for a chemistry experiment , when another student came in with the sad news that the King had died . |
| 30 | A woman came up with a red balloon and asked him to autograph it , and he took out a fountain pen and commenced a squeaky signature . |