Example sentences of "[noun] comes up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nor is this influence obvious or straightforward , for a major reason why different research comes up with different findings and has different implications for policy and practice is that those findings are subject to different underlying assumptions and have different ideological agendas .
2 However , from time to time the curator 's instinct for identification comes up against scholarly puzzles .
3 Er , I ca n't say definitely yet , because the meeting comes up after this meeting , but I 've had a lot of positive noises .
4 ‘ If Blenkinsop comes up with some facts , at least we 'll have something to go back to them on .
5 Unfortunately the author comes up with this approach only eight pages before the end and gives himself insufficient space to spell out his solution , so in the end he fails to satisfy our hopes .
6 So the same topic comes up in different forms in different soap operas .
7 She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas .
8 All are supposed to turn into multi-processors by the middle of next year when HP comes up with symmetric multi-processing upgrade packages that would boost performance at the top end by 75% .
9 Watkins says SunSoft is happy to support what SunSelect offers in the way of MS-DOS emulation right now , but adds that if another firm comes up with better technology at a lower price ‘ we 'd be stupid not to do business with them . ’
10 His report comes up with six options for cutting the network from its present 16 600 kilometres .
11 Firstly , the large-scale transportation of food comes up against environmental difficulties .
12 Toughening their endurance by frequent climbs to nearly 3,000 feet ( 900m ) up the crags of Goat Fell on Arran they saw , when it was not raining — a rare occasion in west Scotland — Lieutenant Roger Courtney at sea , training his canoeists around the island 's choppy waters where a short sharp sea comes up with little warning .
13 The disloyal mutterings about his leadership will grow , as will the possibility of a token candidate standing against him when his party position comes up for formal renewal in November .
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