Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 East Grinstead , West Sussex-based company Shakespeare Speechwriter UK Ltd , formerly EMG Software , has come up with the ultimate system for keyboard-phobes — a voice activated personal computer .
32 JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump .
33 So , we 've come up with the Practical PC-ometer .
34 It can not be much fun to have a big crowd turn against you when you have come up with the top score of the day , inspired your team , and done your best to uphold the game 's standards of decency and chivalry .
35 The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text .
36 It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side .
37 In the USA , I discovered from a report by Dermot Pungavie in the Daily Mail , for those mourners who wish to view but are short of time , one funeral director in Chicago has come up with the novel idea of drive-in viewing .
38 This confirms that Rentokil Healthcare come up to the high standard expected and specified by BSI .
39 ( Like many British design engineers at the time — and unlike Continental or American ones — he had no university training and had come up through the usual apprenticeship route with evening and part-time study . )
40 Er , this refers back to something said , a little while ago , talking about the fitness of judges , having come up through the legal system .
41 ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth .
42 The consortium has underwritten half the purchase price , but has asked the Government to come up with the other half .
43 Well I think there 's every chance that it will get the go-ahead er I mean obviously er there are money restraints but I 'm sure that the District Council will be able to come up with the appropriate amount .
44 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 .
45 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 .
46 It seems IBM believes all it has to do to get its way is to come up with the right marketing plan .
47 On environmental grounds , use of solvent-based product is falling and our job is to come up with the right alternative across a whole spectrum of end uses . ’
48 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 .
49 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 .
50 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 .
51 Financial consultant Richard Bateman totted up all the gifts in the song The 12 Days of Christmas to come up with the hefty bill .
52 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 .
53 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 .
54 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 . ’
55 Used to come up for the odd break .
56 If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations .
57 I have come back to the international scene with a fierce rival in Phil Tufnell , with Ian Salisbury breathing down our necks and Hampshire 's young Sean Udal making great strides every season .
58 The devilish smile , oblique and sharp as a scar , had come back to the gaunt face .
59 We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact .
60 An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand .
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