Example sentences of "[noun pl] come up [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of La Fura Dels Baus came up with the violent cartoon ‘ performance ’ — executives running manically on huge treadmills , hyper-fetishistic female fatales staging S&M routines , gold-painted bicycling centaurs and the metal minotaur . |
| 2 | Calvin and his successors came up with the dark doctrine of predestination to explain the fearful paradox of God 's love and his implacable wrath . |
| 3 | Frontier youth workers came up against the destructive , deceptive nature of evil in many of its present forms . |
| 4 | Many of the offices are in the West End of London , where rentals are still growing , and there are quite a few rent reviews coming up in the next few months . |
| 5 | We 've consulted the leading names in the motor industry and racked our own brains to come up with the definitive answer to one of the ultimate pub arguments . |
| 6 | The professor said that the plans , which will not involve incineration , followed the region 's appointment of consultants to come up with the best environmental option for the disposal of the region 's sewage sludge without excessive cost . |
| 7 | … One of the topics came up in the following week 's Science lesson … the girls took great delight in showing the boys how to perform the tasks ! … the improvement in their confidence was most marked . ’ |
| 8 | Research ( depth research naturally ) among some Chicago car owners came up with the following automobile ‘ personalities ' : Cadillac — flashy ; Ford — young and speedy ; DeSoto — conservative and responsible ; Pontiac — stable and conventional ; Mercury — assertive and modern . |
| 9 | After that , a top executive tends to get stale , in Pearce 's opinion , because ‘ you 're seeing the same problems coming up for the second , third or even fourth time and you begin to think you 've done it all before . |
| 10 | Americans came up with the Big Ideas for videocassette recorders , basic oxygen furnaces , and continuous casters for making steel , microwave ovens , automobile stamping machines , computerized machine tools , integrated circuits . |
| 11 | Of the young players coming up through the Jamaican ranks , Walsh rates in particular the 21-year-old left-hander Robert Samuels , opening batsman Delroy Morgan , and fast bowler Joel Grant , while Jimmy Adams has already made an impressive Test debut against South Africa . |
| 12 | Well full details of most of these games coming up over the next hour here on Talking Sport , now though the leading local results : League division two ; Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil ; the Beezer Homes League southern division ; Witney one , Erith and Belvedere nil ; the Vauxhall League division two south ; Harefield two , Abingdon Town two ; the South Midland League premier division ; Langford one , Thame two ; the O'Brien Trophy ; Tring three , Oxford City one ; the Hellenic League premier cup ; Banbury one , Carterton two ; Bicester two , Milton nil ; Didcot one , Almondsbury nil ; Wantage nil , Bishops Cleve one ; the premier division ; Hounslow three , Headington Amateurs one ; Swindon Athletic one , Abingdon United nil ; the Combination League ; Portsmouth Reserves four , Oxford United Reserves two ; and the south-east Counties League ; Oxford United one , Swindon nil ; now for the classified football results , here 's Headley Feast . |
| 13 | THE subject of minimum wages came up at The Northern/KPMG Peat Marwick Business Briefing when Sir Ian Wrigglesworth ( CBI , Lib-Dem , ex-Labour ) was the guest speaker . |
| 14 | She added that 50 years ago society tolerated things that were considered intolerable now and that many of our laws coming up in the social area were the result of pressure from families . |
| 15 | All gullies , whether they take waste water from upstairs fittings ( via a hopper head ) or waste from kitchen sinks , must have traps to prevent smells coming up from the underground drains . |