Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took her two hours to come up with that . ’ |
| 2 | We expect the authorities to come up with imaginative schemes , designed to tackle specific local crime problems , such as kerb crawling , mugging and burglary . |
| 3 | It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan . |
| 4 | And they 'll press shops and trolley manufacturers to come up with better designs and clearer instructions . |
| 5 | He stressed that his government " stands for co-operation with the West and will encourage foreigners to own up to 100 per cent of businesses " . |
| 6 | DEMANDS to sound-proof up to 1,500 houses on a busy ring road look set to fall on deaf ears . |
| 7 | If not , it gives you time to take evasive action — either to build up your savings to make up for any expected shortfall , or to increase your premiums . |
| 8 | If the Bill is enacted , as I hope that it will be , I hope that extra impetus will be given to road traffic engineers to come up with innovative schemes . |
| 9 | The new legislation included : ( i ) a law on private enterprise , which allowed individuals to start companies without restrictions on the numbers of employees ; ( ii ) a law on state enterprises , which allowed state-owned companies to offer shares to their workforces ; ( iii ) a law on shareholding , which allowed foreign individuals or companies to own up to 100 per cent of Czechoslovak-based companies ; ( iv ) a law on industrial relations , enshrining employee and trade-union rights ; and ( v ) provisions for the creation of industrial courts to settle commercial disputes . |
| 10 | A major feature of Suharto 's budget speech was a call for private companies to offer up to 25 per cent of their shares to workers ' co-operatives , and to facilitate this by providing soft loans . |
| 11 | When we come to deal with infant baptism we take the view that the failure of parents to measure up to certain standards is to be allowed to stand in the way of the grace of God being available for their children . |
| 12 | The Stock Exchange permits companies to raise up to 15 million in the main market and 5 million in the USM when they come to the market through a placing ( companies with existing quotations on the Exchange can also raise 15 million by means of a placing ) . |
| 13 | ‘ This is not just becoming more common , it 's actually expected of older , successful businessmen to take up with younger wives . |
| 14 | This new venture aims over a period of three years to train up to ninety students not only as teachers of BSL but as BSL English interpreters . |
| 15 | For example , the UK clearinghouse usually requires libraries to contribute up to ten copies of each item before they can automatically receive other material from LIMB ( the Library Instructional Materials Bank — see pp 139–40 ) . |
| 16 | * The British government was also criticized at Strasbourg for allowing Scottish fishermen to cull up to 5,000 seals annually . |
| 17 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 18 | Nirex 's plans to drill up to 6,000 test bore holes for an underground nuclear waste dump at Dounreay , Caithness , have been approved by Scottish Secretary Ian Lang . |
| 19 | While Balcon was encouraging his writers to come up with original stories , and steadily reducing the company 's reliance on the theatre , BIP remained largely stagebound . |
| 20 | Madam Speaker , this announcement is now almost a year delayed the firm of Coopers and Lybrand have been paid one point six million pounds to come up with this ass access charging fiasco , surely this house in entitled to the , as entitled as the press to a full statement of the government 's intentions so that they can be answered by . |
| 21 | The government 's policy paper contained provisions for state-aided settlement schemes to encourage black farmers to set up on 485,000 hectares of government land . |
| 22 | And national or local government may offer subsidies for businesses to set up in favoured areas . |
| 23 | Fights erupted outside supermarkets as shoppers battled for parking spaces in desperate efforts to stock up with canned goods . |
| 24 | Typical sail dimensions to lift up to one kilo ( 2.21b ) would be a span or width across the mainspar of 125cm ( 49in ) and a depth of 85cm ( 33in ) so that the triangle is an included angle of 73 degrees approximately at the apex ; however , this is not critical . |
| 25 | The ministers amended the terms of the ASEAN industrial joint-venture ( AIJV ) plan to include allowing non-ASEAN investors to hold up to 60 per cent of equity . |
| 26 | This was followed by Lord Arran 's speech at the Balmoral Show where , according to some reports , Lord Arran seemed to challenge his own civil servants to come up with new ideas . |
| 27 | When falsificationism was introduced as an alternative to inductivism in the previous chapter , falsifications , that is , the failures of theories to stand up to observational and experimental tests , were portrayed as being of key importance . |
| 28 | OATS has also won a contract from Kuwait Airways to train up to thirty pilots over the next two years . |
| 29 | But ask one of the sergeants to come up in ten minutes to pack up the mallet for the Yard lab , will you ? |
| 30 | The only names to crop up with any regularity by then were Isabelia Penny , Mary Ryan , Ellen Redmond , Mary Connor , Ann Kinsala and Jane Fearon . |