Example sentences of "[vb pp] up [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It could be a flash new car , stumped up by a wealthy director who can write off the cost of the car as a demonstration model from his own showroom . |
2 | Her resentment of Guy Sterne 's involvement with her family was somehow getting mixed up with a physical chemistry , she decided uneasily , and she found the latter far more confusing and unnerving . |
3 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
4 | These two incidents hardly added up to a minimal knowledge of the principality . |
5 | All the little steps have added up to a high achievement . |
6 | This can sometimes mean throwing away your own idea when your art director has come up with a better one — very hard on your ego but a necessary victory for good judgement . |
7 | The Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Peters And Lee have come up with a real smasher this time |
8 | However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain . |
9 | So Clinton has come up with a mixed bag of tricks : some of his proposals will be interpreted as inflationary ( the new mandates on business , for example — including a requirement that all employers spend a minimum of 1.5% of payroll on continuing education and training ) . |
10 | Land has come up with a credible answer in his Retinex theory of colour perception ( Land 1974 ) . |
11 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
12 | There are structural difficulties and the Council of Ministers has come up with a typical measure — just finding a few extra bob to see whether it will solve the problem . |
13 | Wallace had come up with a great zoological truth . |
14 | Such crassness was inevitable but for all that the Warner Bros team had come up with a powerful film . |
15 | Needlers has come up with a good compromise with the introduction of its New Energy Bar . |
16 | There are probably many examples of instances in which Western technology has come up with a good idea which has the capability of helping the hundreds of millions of people in the Developing World . |
17 | Buffallo , however , have come up with a good trowel at a very modest price . |
18 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
19 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
20 | Spear & Jackson has come up with a new range of screwdrivers , colour-coded for easier identification . |
21 | The Department of Trade and Industry 's Companies Division has come up with a new model form , intended to help companies to investigate ownership of their shares under s 212 of the Companies Act 1985 ( p 100 ) . |
22 | The Department of Trade and Industry 's Companies Division has come up with a new model form , which it believes will help companies investigate their shares under s 212 of the 1985 Companies Act . |
23 | In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% . |
24 | Sun Microsystems Inc worshipper Integrix Inc , based somewhere in darkest California , has come up with a new keyboard called the S5+ that incorporates the functionality of Sun 's new Type 5 but can also be used with all Suns , Sun-compatibles and personal computers : it is targeted at mixed computer environments and X terminals and it requires no special device drivers . |
25 | Micro Focus Plc has come up with a new method for charging for licences to its Unix software , which it calls Unix Concurrent User Licensing . |
26 | So now it 's come up with a new look , aimed at the modern shopper . |
27 | A firm has come up with a new high-tech way to beat credit card fraud . |
28 | WE 'VE had leaves on the line , snow , iced-up points and now BR in the South East has come up with a new one for explaining delays to trains : Heavy morning dew . |
29 | It has to be said that , with this membrane idea , BOSS have come up with a brilliant way of programming the ME-10 . |
30 | Marr and his colleagues have come up with a simpler explanation which relies on the fact that there are two classes of ganglion cells , on-centre and off-centre . |