Example sentences of "have [adv] come up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Venice Soprintendenza certainly does not intend to miss out on such an opportunity and has already come up with a proposal , ‘ Dal Museo alla città ’ ( From Museum to City ) , which it estimates would cost L3.8 billion ( £1.76 million ; $3 million ) . |
| 2 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 3 | In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% . |
| 4 | R. W. Blake in the Zoology Department of the University of British Columbia , who made the discovery , has even come up with a name for the strategy . |
| 5 | As well as the scent of ‘ mother 's scalp ’ — the first reassuring odour a new-born baby smells — there is a natural sea scent to overwhelm the chlorine in swimming pools , and even cow-pat perfume for which no one has yet come up with a use . |
| 6 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 7 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 8 | We like your cleverness Has he given it more thought , he 's just come up with a really clever idea I think there |
| 9 | ‘ Operators have been in discussion with the Health and Safety Executive for some time , and we have now come up with a code of practice accepted by the HSE and drawn up by BERSA ( British Elastic Ropes Sports Association ) . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ No hitches so far , and he 's even come up with a little bonus on the side . |
| 11 | On the other hand , commentators on English have recently come up with a startling reversal : they have begun to argue that natural gender , traditionally defined as a classification based on sex reference , is really a grammatical phenomenon . |