Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needed to come down from a greater height than most . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By this meeting Nigel had come up with a further solution : rather than abolish SERPS , he suggested that we modify it to the point that it could be afforded . |
| 5 | Pigs bred for life inside do n't do well outside — so the Pig Improvement Company has come up with a tougher type of pig . |
| 6 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 7 | It was a ritual that distressed Anna Essinger and her staff but , given the pressure to move the children out of the camp so that others could take their places , nobody was able to come up with a better alternative to what was known as ‘ the market ’ . |
| 8 | The Party now needed to come up with a longer term programme of how to pave the way towards socialism in China as a whole , paying particular attention to the different economic situation in the south which could indeed significantly influence their future strategy . |
| 9 | Perhaps the topic that worries you may be scheduled to come up in a later training session — but it happens today . |
| 10 | To heighten concern about the Convention , Broken Promise could not have come out at a better time . |
| 11 | so of course that would 've come out at a later stage , yeah , you know there 's a lot of business miles involved in flying to all these er places . |
| 12 | He is expecting City to come back with a bigger offer . |
| 13 | The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome . |
| 14 | Would he like to come back on a quieter ‘ induction day ’ ? |
| 15 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
| 16 | She came in with a further two bottles of champagne and took them , blue eyes shining , to Alfred , assembling the ingredients for the Rognons à la Didier . |
| 17 | BHC engineers came up with a floppier , tapered skirt that allowed them to reduce the pressure of the air cushion . |
| 18 | Quality manager Francine Galivel says the objective of the visit was fully achieved because everyone — the shift operator , the operator who loads the tanker , the person who plans the haulier 's despatch notes , the chemist who checks that the product meets specifications — all came back with a better understanding of how their jobs fit into the unbroken line from supplier to end product . |
| 19 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 20 | New residents are coming in from a wider and wider catchment area . |
| 21 | Why ca n't someone come up with a better boot than a rubber one ? |
| 22 | Even Nails , Hoomey thought proudly , could n't come up with a better name than that . |
| 23 | Unless someone can come up with a better answer . |
| 24 | A resolution passed by the Democrat-controlled House 27 votes to 13 advises Exxon to renegotiate and come up with a better offer . |
| 25 | It should be thrown out and the electorate should make their views known at a general election so that the Government can come back with a better Bill at a later stage . ’ |
| 26 | Unless and until scientists come up with a better way , the drug would probably have be administered by a catheter permanently inserted into the brain , a method currently used in treatments for inoperable brain cancer . |
| 27 | Erm the point that both the others raised about my objection with the large document and my objection regarding what you were going to do with the information you could have apacked and come out with a stronger result . |
| 28 | ‘ Come back in a better frame of mind . ’ |
| 29 | As a stake in society comes in at a higher cost , the old certainties begin to wither . |
| 30 | All I know is that God is n't a good explanation , so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one . " |