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

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1 cos I want to come out of thick woollies now it is March
2 This urge to preserve the valued and precious non-material things that seem to come inevitably into human life , has found its expression in the setting up of idols in every conceivable form .
3 The tapes and scores which they produce come across with real sincerity , and display surprisingly high levels of competence .
4 ‘ It ca n't be helping much , if you keep coming up with crazy ideas about what I 'm supposed to be up to . ’
5 I think the show would have been less timid if he had sought out more of the artists in their 20s who nowadays keep coming up in mixed exhibitions in Liverpool , Birmingham , Leeds , Whitechapel and so on .
6 Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year .
7 In any case she thinks it is just a matter of time before more women start coming through to senior levels , both because the company is taking on more female graduates and because they are a pretty self-confident lot anyway .
8 The only way in which this could happen is by chance in a small population : outsiders do come in at long odds .
9 This is where we 've come up with critical application software .
10 The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions .
11 The financial director is usually a member of top management and , in UK industry , many chief executive officers have come up through financial functions .
12 Full details from Editor : We 'd very much like to hear from others who have come up with profitable solutions to this seasonal problem .
13 As it is , they have two and have come up with various suggestions as to what selectors do their thinking with .
14 Meanwhile the philologists , putting together the various clues inside the Kalevala — it is bright , it was forged , it is a kind of mill , it brings luck , it made the sea salt — have come up with innumerable solutions , at once vague and pedantic : the sampo was the Golden Fleece , some fertility-cult object , a Lappish pillar-idol , an allegory of the sky .
15 To celebrate the November Presidential election two galleries have come up with national election year shows .
16 I know that Jacqueline , you may well get it right , but you have come up with hard work sometime do n't you ?
17 It is a tribute to how far we have come already in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we can not predict .
18 valium is not an accepted treatment for depression and that we have excellent anti-depressant drugs , particularly ones that have come just in recent years that are very effective for depression , and I think bringing a great deal of benefit to depressed people .
19 ‘ The fundamental thing is that we have come away from true asset finance , ’ said Tony Foley , director of Leaseplan , which has a portfolio of £60m in asset finance plus a further £150m in vehicle leasing .
20 What 's happened is that policy makers 've shifted the emphasis instead of protecting tariffs they 're protected using long long tariff barriers right which are a lot more invisible to er , to G A T T do n't come under erm G A T T regulations , what those tariffs do nevertheless , tariffs have , have come down in manufactured goods right , erm , since the second world war when G A T T was er , was established .
21 The Forestry Commission has declared its intention to expand forestry , particularly of the broadleaved variety , at " down the hill " locations — a move away from recent tendencies to afforest uplands with conifer plantations , which have come in for extensive criticism [ see section on Pollution : Air in this issue ] .
22 The police have come in for heavy criticism but Rosenthal 's following observation about distortion in behavioural science may be cited as an apologia for some police shortcomings :
23 Now there is a class of systems , so-called expert systems , which have come out of artificial intelligence research , which can do much more than that , are much more intelligent .
24 While the role of small firms should not be discounted , recent work at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex has shown just how many significant innovations have come out of large companies .
25 Independent advice er comes from major brokers , the banks and building societies have come out of independent advice pretty well , because they 've decided that it 's expensive and a hassle , cos we 're regulated all the time and of course it makes , we 've , we 've got to analyze the products on the market , so we 've got to pay people to do that .
26 Here , as it has turned out , was an organization where he has found he is seriously good at something , and where all the disparate strands of his life have come together with extraordinary clarity .
27 Some schemes have been consumer-led ; others have been initiated by local authority or health service managers or by local councillors ; for others the impetus has come from social researchers ; and still others have come about through joint action by social workers and their managers .
28 For students all too easily feel that they have to come up with negative assessments if their appraisals are to be worth anything .
29 Buildings are not listed lightly : they have to come up to strict standards to qualify .
30 We are also told that wage increases have to come down to German levels , and there has been some movement in that direction .
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