Example sentences of "come up [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These guitars represent total design philosophies , not marketing exercises where a manufacturer or ad agency has tried to hoodwink us into believing the instrument really is different because its headstock is slightly more rounded than the Ibanez — or whatever other triviality they 've come up with that month . |
| 2 | And they 've come up with several suggestions . |
| 3 | ELITE , creators of those lovable cavemen Joe and Mac , have come up with another cartoon romp in the form of Dragon 's Lair on the SNES . |
| 4 | Having realised , I suspect , at least for the time being , that they are not going to get anywhere in their fight for equal prize money at Wimbledon or the French , the Women 's Tennis Association have come up with another proposal which I know has support in some areas but which I certainly hope will also bite the dust . |
| 5 | A FTER persuading the American singer Madonna to become a vice-president , those ageing adventurers at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( ICA ) have come up with another star for their letterhead — President Havel of Czechoslovakia . |
| 6 | In addition , IDC has come up with some projections that indicate not everybody is buying the hype . |
| 7 | Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form . |
| 8 | After lots of thought I 've come up with this solution and hope it will be helpful to others . |
| 9 | The career of artists as diverse as Queen and Public Enemy would have been very different if Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards had n't come up with this landmark tune . |
| 10 | Guy 's come up with this patent for a new system from America which cuts turn-around time in the garment-sewing factories by some amazing percentage and — ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know if that 's come up at any point . |
| 12 | This is not the first time the issue of control has come up in this column but because yours is a sign that tends to resist going with the flow , all too often you meet people and circumstances that appear to block your path . |
| 13 | We have come up against some prejudice in the dressage , but the nice thing is that at the end of the test sheets you often see the same comment from the judge — ‘ What a super pony ! ’ . ’ |
| 14 | The producer/singer 's record company has been forced to come up with all kinds of excuses . |
| 15 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 16 | ‘ Is there something , ’ George asked icily , ‘ about the atmosphere of this place that causes you to come up with such expressions ? |
| 17 | They do n't want me paying d you know like their pension deferred , so if you 're serious about the fu pension fund managers paying , we 're talking y you know earlier you said four hundred and eighty million whatever it is lost , they 're paying a third , pension fund managers have got to come up with that sort of sum . |
| 18 | We have erm , we ca n't put operator performance any more on our district , because we 've just erm , stopped that , it does n't , you know , they do n't apply it to performance any more as far as that goes , but erm , I have got three representation , three representatives , which the checkout people nominated themselves and I have a monthly meeting with those to come up with any problems but it 's still , you know , that 's tackling one issue . |
| 19 | The move came as a sign of frustration by Britain and Hong Kong over the way China has protested about the proposals since they were announced last October — but has failed to come up with any alternative ahead of elections already scheduled for 1995 . |
| 20 | You might well be able to come up with more ideas of your own . |
| 21 | Yes , it 's Christmas time and once again ACCOUNTANCYis looking for the wits among you to come up with this year 's Christmas cartoon caption . |
| 22 | It 's taken me quite a while to come up with this team and i 'm sure i 've missed some absolute wankers out , but here goes . |
| 23 | The US Supreme Court has repealed the section of the 1985 nuclear waste federal law which compels states to find disposal sites for low-level radioactive waste if they have failed to come up with another solution by 1996 . |
| 24 | The sinking feeling I get when I fold it up again and stuff the envelope under my bed makes me realise how much I wanted it to come up with some answers . |
| 25 | But I think it is important for us to er , as an individual authority as well as working with other authorities , to actually keep up the pressure on the Ministry to , to let them know that this is n't going to go away , and that they 've got to come up with some answers which are , which are going to try and satisfy people . |
| 26 | The problem I think comes when you go when you become insolvent , you know , and I think that 's and so therefore unless we 're going to come up with some system where we do insure our pensions as we do our home , then you , you , you 're still back to the basic contract between a company and an individual . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If these governments want to win back the access to international capital markets that they need in order to expand and prosper , they will have to come up with some ideas of their own . |
| 29 | this idea pettiness you know , but you 're just waiting while they get their load done , to come up with some suggestion . |
| 30 | What we have to do is to come up with some set of criteria which relate to the relative value we are prepared , if pressed , to attribute to a particular form of special treatment . |