Example sentences of "[vb past] come up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Quebec government , however , warned the federal government and the English-speaking provinces that if they failed to come up with an acceptable constitutional solution , Quebec would proceed with its own independence referendum by October 1992 . |
| 2 | Now I struggled to come up with a good word or phrase to describe that , but the one we use for now is multicultural . |
| 3 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 4 | The combined force of the rhythm section and the group 's percussive sound meant that Tyson had to come up with a different approach to his playing . |
| 5 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
| 6 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |
| 7 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 8 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
| 9 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The production team , which again included writers Robert Lord and Abem Finkel , had made a film which depoliticized the Legion by making its motive force sheer racketeering rather than political control and by making the violence and executions personal rather than political but nevertheless they had come up with a realistic depiction of how a weak man could be drawn into a recognizably Fascist organization . |