Example sentences of "[vb past] come up [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the pH failed to come up to 5 after 20 minutes ( 1200 seconds ) , the acid clearance time was regarded to be 1200 seconds . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 5 | Last autumn he won round one when President Bush appointed him to lead a cabinet ‘ empowerment task force ’ , told to come up with specific proposals . |
| 6 | Detectives who seek to establish what happened come up against serious cognitive obstacles . |
| 7 | Another thing that did come up at that training day the other day was that we all need a , a , a , anybody that 's going to do any sort of appraising will need to know what the erm training programme is |
| 8 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | They were n't concerned with that , although they did come up with some electro um electro-static field , or electro magnatic magnetic fields in the brain or something . |
| 10 | She and her companion had come up under full sail to my table . |
| 11 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 12 | It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress , but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad , so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt . |
| 13 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 14 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |