Example sentences of "[adj] to come [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the Government is prepared to come up with some cash there is a real danger that the Dearing vision will be blinded by the dust which the report is rapidly gathering . |
| 2 | For this reason it is impossible to come up with universal rules dictating how explanations are to be provided . |
| 3 | But if manufacturers were to try too hard to come up with new ideas we 'd be constantly faced with designs to rival Gibson 's semi-mythical Moderne and Burns ' Flyte in the grossness stakes . |
| 4 | However , we believe that those who are determined to understand a phenomenon and to follow their research and their intuition wherever they may lead , are on the balance of probabilities , perhaps more likely to come up with new knowledge than those who are trying to solve a narrowly defined problem or to develop a product . |
| 5 | Both Soviet and foreign estimates of the numbers threatened with starvation and death over the period 1921–2 varied enormously , and no amount of detailed research is ever likely to come up with reliable figures . |
| 6 | Breathlessly , Jenny poured out the news that the rear offside wheel of Miss Clinton 's car was loose , likely to come off at any moment , sooner or later certain to come off . |
| 7 | Bloke supposed to come in for new business pitch will have got there by now . |
| 8 | This can be decomposed as : where X 1 and X 2 are the proportion in the service class and intermediate class ( 0.134 and 0.308 ) respectively : 0.237 + ( 0.134 × 0.482 ) + ( 0.308 × 0.160 ) = 0.351 We shall consider equations like this for interval level variables later in the book ; you may find it useful to come back to this paragraph after you have read chapter 10 . |
| 9 | Expecting little good to come out of any country even partially populated by non-Muslims , Ibn Battuta had few expectations of India . |
| 10 | It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form . |
| 11 | Conrad ( 1965 , pp. 12–13 ) , in his interesting study of penal practice in nine different European countries , was able to come up with five postulates shared by penal administrators in all of them ; and they spell out precisely the rehabilitative programme : |
| 12 | That , in his view , is long enough to be able to come up with new ideas and see them implemented . |
| 13 | Even if the student is not able to come up with alternative offerings of his or her own , at least he or she can say with some honesty : ‘ I believe that to be the case , and this is why . ’ |
| 14 | You might well be able to come up with more ideas of your own . |
| 15 | It is important to come up with new ideas . |
| 16 | The unions recognise this first meeting is unlikely to come up with immediate proposals , but wants to meet workers to develop a product diversification strategy . |
| 17 | But , he maintains , if you do n't throw up a lot of worthless ideas you are unlikely to come up with sensible ones either . |
| 18 | Balbinder was always pleased to come along for these sessions , to play with my children 's toys and run in the garden . |
| 19 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 20 | Since this is a theoretical chapter it is difficult to come up with practical work . |
| 21 | He accepts it 's extremely difficult to come up with conclusive evidence that violent films cause violent behaviour , but that a series of studies in America 20 years ago suggested it was a factor . |
| 22 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 23 | And he 's always particularly keen to come up with original melodies . |
| 24 | I said you were mad to come over at this time . |