Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Middle East International of May 17 , the EC had come up with more generous terms in response to GCC criticism that " the EC was being too restrictive in offering trade concessions to Gulf exports of petrochemicals " . |
| 2 | But in fact it enabled staff to come up with more appropriate answers to those problems , said Edwards . |
| 3 | It simply set out some crude ideas on how public spending could be reduced and suggested that ministers should have six months to come up with more refined views . |
| 4 | People in mundane jobs came up with more fanciful excuses . |
| 5 | Two years later the regent came up against more visible opposition . |
| 6 | Given Hoving 's long-standing jealousy of John Walsh , a former curator in the European paintings department who is now the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum , it is surprising that Walsh does not come in for more snide brickbats than a conversation Hoving cites with Getty , where the eccentric billionaire asks him if he would become the director of his museum . |
| 7 | So does RELIGION , but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it 's wrong . |