Example sentences of "[to-vb] up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 33 | It will be up to the SMMB to come up with a scheme that is acceptable to them . ’ |
| 34 | Yeah , but you 've got to come up with a cost somewhere , that 's got to be . |
| 35 | Jane Asher has put her creative talents to work to come up with a range of designer cakes that are exclusive to Sainsbury . |
| 36 | It 's nice of the Persil people to come up with a washing-up liquid . |
| 37 | How long does it usually take you to come up with a solo that meets the demanding criteria you 've just described ? |
| 38 | Now , you , you could have the linear ordering that 's an alternative proposal erm , but then you 've actually got erm you 've got to come up with a kind of proper account of these structures of how they come about and of the relation and then you 've got to check it out against all the other data and all I can say is as it happens , I 've tried that and it does n't work but that 's only and we want to find out if you can see that the quite a long way . |
| 39 | ‘ Because it seems they 've managed to come up with a bone marrow donor . ’ |
| 40 | After the sinking of HMS Sheffield , the Ministry of Defence asked MEL ( which makes the Abbey Hill equipment ) to come up with a modification to ensure that it rapidly alerted crews to further Exocet attacks . |
| 41 | But it would take a pretty exceptional executioner to come up with a vegetable on the spur of the moment . |
| 42 | Go to a hairdresser , ask him or her to come up with a style that suits you , your hair , your lifestyle , and emerge looking and feeling great . |
| 43 | which is to come up with a word |
| 44 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 45 | Well , George was going to come up with a translation . |
| 46 | You know the old adage that , I mean one of the reasons is it 's so much easier to come up with a scandal , to come with a rats in the basement or something like that and intrigue people , than it is to come up with some , the positive angles . |
| 47 | ‘ Generally , if I 'm playing on a track , I 'll listen to the lyrics and then I 'll try to come up with a guitar part that suits the song in terms of imagery . |
| 48 | I 'll try to come up with a part that suits the imagery of the song , and then the tuning seems to suggest itself |
| 49 | His brief was to come up with a recipe for a high-growth food with cost ( within reason ) no object . |
| 50 | Working within an embassy office or the regional office of a multilateral bank it is not difficult for donors ' staff to come up with a list of potential projects which can be presented to a recipient country 's ministry of finance for discussion . |
| 51 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 52 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 53 | He has to come up with a strategy which will instill new financial disciplines in Polish industry and satisfy the demands of the workers/public en masse . |
| 54 | We got a call from them recently and , apparently they 've managed to come up with a program that WILL allow for a hundred Lemmings on-screen at once — although they would not be animated to any degree whatsoever . |
| 55 | Basically , the problem is this : due to the sprite limitations of the C64 nobody — as yet — has managed to come up with a routine that would allow more than ten Lemmings on-screen simultaneously . |
| 56 | One scratchcard in six is expected to come up with a prize between £1 and £100 . |
| 57 | ‘ Mr Blake is my employer , ’ Charity said stiffly , saving Matthew the embarrassment of having to come up with a reply , and herself the embarrassment of having to hear it . |
| 58 | Another resolution would force Mr Urban to come up with a merger proposal involving Pirelli 's tyre business in time for Continental 's annual general meeting in June . |
| 59 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 60 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |