Example sentences of "to come up [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To come up with the right emotions for the President of the World , though hard work , was still so much easier than identifying her own . |
| 2 | WITH ONLY 48 hours to come up with the cash , Michael Knighton 's £20m take-over bid for Manchester United is back on course following a High Court ruling that gives him leave to put together a funding package . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But they have had since January to come up with the $570m that Mr Bush requested as emergency aid and compensation for post-invasion Panama . |
| 5 | The winding-up petition comes after the Court of Appeal last week gave Chelsea a deadline of seven days in which to come up with the money . |
| 6 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 7 | This so-called ‘ objective ’ reliving , which brings forth fragmentary recall based on the hypnotist 's detailed questions , puts the subject under especially intense pressure to come up with the goods . |
| 8 | People in my trade are supposed to be able to help , but I 've only been able to come up with the old platitude : ‘ Do n't buy a £500 car from a dealer because you 'll only get £100 worth of vehicle — the rest will be profit . ’ |
| 9 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 10 | So the problem was to come up with the right kind of songs which would still act as vehicles for the guitar — because , basically , the song itself is the most important thing . |
| 11 | Financial consultant Richard Bateman totted up all the gifts in the song The 12 Days of Christmas to come up with the hefty bill . |
| 12 | It had not been hard to persuade Brian to come up with the fees for university . |
| 13 | Manufacturers DMF Sportswear are in the first year of a three-year deal with Third Division Barnet , who have three weeks to come up with the cash or face High Court action . |
| 14 | Just two days before the share sale was due to close , the Greater Manchester Council superannuation fund failed to come up with the expected £250,000 . |
| 15 | It seems IBM believes all it has to do to get its way is to come up with the right marketing plan . |
| 16 | Indeed , while the restructuring plan casts doubt on the firm 's ability to come up with the capital to finance an ambitious plan to expand its telecommunications operation , the extent of the Kontrax Group 's difficulties are hard to assess as it financed its expansion by means of a maze of inter-company loans . |
| 17 | This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions . |
| 18 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA top gun Elserino Piol told Unigram the real reason behind Olivetti 's embrace of Alpha was all the doubts about the wisdom of his MIPS strategy voiced to his boss Carlo di Benedetti : that caused the politically wary Piol to exert himself to come up with the Alpha alternative . |
| 19 | This week Austin , Texas-based UniSQL Inc is supposed to come up with the world 's first heterogeneous database management system supporting both relational and object-oriented databases . |
| 20 | The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Cellini may not be able to come up with the goods . |
| 23 | Set up a lab like mine and run the same experiments , and anyone should be able to come up with the same results , for they do not depend on excessively mysterious skills or tricks , and science is after all , in the words of its most passionately admiring philosophers , public knowledge . |
| 24 | However , its subsidiary , Barclays Direct Mortgage Services , was able to come up with the sums in a matter of days . |
| 25 | Held fast in the mud with her cargo of bricks , she had failed to come up with the rising tide and the water had turned her over . |
| 26 | They used to come up with the dredging spoil |
| 27 | His solution was to come up with the first table of annual premiums based on life expectancy . |
| 28 | Secondly , there is the regional flood defence committee , whose members will be expected to come up with the lion 's share of the cash . |
| 29 | The panel will be asked to come up with the best all-time team on earth after viewing Pele 's new six-part , 12-hour range of football films . |
| 30 | Pete Waterman is making animated conversation at the bar After trying unsuccessfully to blackmail him with photographs of his dancing , we part company , wondering aloud if he would tart the programme up were Granada to come up with the big bucks . |