Example sentences of "[verb] come up with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivanov 's major interest was communication satellites , in respect of which he was constantly being pressed to come up with something new . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough 's shambolic defenders failed to come up with the answers to the riddles posed by Rosenthal 's direct running . |
| 8 | So linguists too tend to come up with grammatically correct , but somewhat peculiar examples : ‘ Sincerity may frighten the boy ’ ( Chomsky 1965:63 ) and so on . |
| 9 | DEC is struggling to come up with a clear , forthright statement on its Unix policy for a worldwide briefing it 's planning on holding February 10 . |
| 10 | Mm well maybe , I mean to come up with a , a clear example . |
| 11 | When representatives of the offending authorities are called to account by the Committee , they will need to come up with some better answers to justify their past actions than that members of CPRW are just a fractious minority . |
| 12 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 13 | One scratchcard in six is expected to come up with a prize between £1 and £100 . |
| 14 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 15 | Secondly , there is the regional flood defence committee , whose members will be expected to come up with the lion 's share of the cash . |
| 16 | He warned : ‘ We can not be expected to come up with good ideas if the Government continues to reduce our budget every year . |
| 17 | The breakthrough came with the middle-of-the-road National Union of Railwaymen , which promised to come up with their target £150,000 ‘ subject to a positive response from a number of other unions ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think it will take the investigators long to come up with enough to disqualify Louis from international yacht racing . |
| 19 | The answer is that if we find the present state of affairs unsatisfactory , we have an obligation to try to come up with something better . |
| 20 | Mr Consey told The Art Newspaper , ‘ We are going to try to come up with a modified plan whereby overflow parking may be off-site . |
| 21 | It has n't changed but as we said on Friday morning the D of E amongst others have sugg er expressed a view that the panel ought to try to come up with a general location if we can . |
| 22 | One-colour borders have been enjoying renewed popularity recently , and Mr Fothergill 's Seeds has come up with the perfect quick answer to monochrome gardening . |
| 23 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 24 | The microcomputer firms foresee networks of micros taking over , and the minicomputer firms see networks of minis , while IBM has come up with Systems Application Architecture ( SAA ) , designed to maintain the mainframe 's iron grip on corporate data processing 's throat . |
| 25 | To try to climb out of the hole it is in , Grumman has come up with a plan to turn its F-14 fighter into a ground-attack aircraft . |
| 26 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 27 | Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form . |
| 28 | JOHN KASMIN , or ‘ Kasmin ’ , as everyone calls him , has come up with the ultimate solution to the art slump . |
| 29 | The Social Democrat Edith Niehuis has come up with the dubious argument that , because of the Catholic approach to female priests ( who have practised in the Protestant Church here for two decades ) , the tax is an ‘ unconstitutional discrimination against women ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ That is , of course , ’ he said , sitting up again suddenly , ‘ unless Father has come up with an entirely new factor he wants me to think about . ’ |