Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCIENTISTS from the General Electric Company in New York have come up with a way of measuring how much charge is left in a lead-acid battery . |
| 2 | The research , entirely funded by a charity , Quest for a Test for Cancer , has come up with a way of determining exactly how much stain the DNA has taken up . |
| 3 | In recent times it was feared that Venice was sinking , but modern engineering has come up with a way of pumping water from the mainland to boost the underground water base on which the city rests . |
| 4 | So she 's come up with a way of trying to protect animals in Gloucestershire , Worcestershire and Herefordshire . |
| 5 | It notes that if Intel Corp were able to come up with a way to drive 3.8m transistors without frying the chip to a frazzle , Pentium would look pretty good . |
| 6 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyone who gets really used to something will know what I 'm talking about here , but my stuff is pretty noisy and when I came up with a way of getting rid of the noise , I really missed it ! |
| 8 | He makes it clear in his Report that these ‘ prisoner contracts ’ should not be drawn up in a way which would give the prisoner private rights ( that is the right to damages ) . |
| 9 | Thus redness , rather than merely looking red , is basic but its being there is bound up in a way which is manifest from the start with how it looks to us . |
| 10 | It was n't the first time her pupil had mentioned Rossmayne and each time the girl 's face had lit up in a way which made the nun catch her breath . |
| 11 | But once they were on the market , the corp had spent a lot of R and D money coming up with a way to beat them . |
| 12 | They were also set up as a way of avoiding off-site referral . |
| 13 | The tendency for L to find its own maximum value leads to interesting developments if the initial density distribution is set up in a way that makes it initially larger than this maximum . |
| 14 | His friend Michael Kelly described how , when he became animated , his whole face lit up in a way ‘ as impossible to describe , as it would be to paint sunbeams ’ . |
| 15 | It had been popularized in lesbian feminist circles by the American writer , Adrienne Rich , and was taken up as a way of understanding the common ground between the very different oppressions experienced by lesbians and gay men of different classes , different ages , different races , etc . |
| 16 | A. L. Smith , chairman of the Adult Education Committee at the Ministry of Reconstruction , also warned : ‘ If industrial moral and social side must be taken up in a way that had hardly been experimented upon as yet … |
| 17 | The implications about the relationship between the state , economy and a differentiated working class have only really been taken up in a way which derives from radical labour market theory . |
| 18 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 19 | ‘ So if you can come up with a way of going down there , past the guards , up to the house , into a room or two , and being left alone for a couple of minutes while I secure the devices — OK , you 've got what you want . ’ |
| 20 | There is n't a back door and I doubt whether even you with that charmed life of yours can come up with a way out of this one . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It would be great if we could come up with a way of treating some disorders , we could actually make use of cannabis in some way therapeutically , that would be tremendous . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We decided that the best approach was to minimise the risk and come up with a way of assessing the quality of the reservoir as we drilled ’ says Mitchell . |