Example sentences of "come up [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this time the executive had come up with a compromise of sterling dimness . |
| 2 | Other people and think-tanks had come up with a similar recipe before and never had much impact . |
| 3 | Elsewhere in the media world , LWT has come up with a new plan to restructure itself ahead of the new franchise auction in 1992 . |
| 4 | Some time before , Malcolm had come up with a list of half a dozen names . |
| 5 | No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant . |
| 6 | They 've come up with a solar-powered , infrared-pulsating , microchip bee backpack . |
| 7 | To try to climb out of the hole it is in , Grumman has come up with a plan to turn its F-14 fighter into a ground-attack aircraft . |
| 8 | To supplement work-outs , he has come up with a global best-practices programme . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By studying regions of the proteins the proteinase cuts , they have come up with a small molecule that can block this scissor action . |
| 11 | He was , however , full of enthusiasm for the resumption of operations as soon as possible and had come up with a new idea . |
| 12 | Recognising that a lot of women are taking to the hills , and that they may feel a little intimidated by such a male-orientated sport , especially since they all dress in the same fluffy things as us now , I have come up with a startling new innovation . |
| 13 | Merkel had come up with a sinister final solution to the population explosion . |
| 14 | However , the authors of WFP have not thought the matter through and have come up with a set of proposals which will simply divert attention away from the real agenda which does exist for NHS capital accounting . |
| 15 | Hitachi , with its partners Maxwell and Matsushita , has come up with a disc the same size , while a third combine headed by Seagate has opted for 3¼ inch ( 7–8 cm ) in an attempt to head off the Japanese competition . |
| 16 | But Stephen Fazekas de St Groth of the Basel Institute of Immunology has come up with a different method — an automated system in which a technician collects the antibodies off an ‘ anti-immunologlobulin ’ column . |
| 17 | BIOTECHNOLOGISTS have come up with a surprising new way of repairing many scars and wrinkles — using purified cow-hide . |
| 18 | SCIENTISTS from the General Electric Company in New York have come up with a way of measuring how much charge is left in a lead-acid battery . |
| 19 | In West Germany , meanwhile , BASF has come up with a technical solution to the threat of a tax on blank audio tape . |
| 20 | A RESEARCHER with IBM has come up with a device that might possibly replace the transistor in integrated circuit devices . |
| 21 | ROBERT FRANKLIN of Los Gatos , California , has come up with a neat way of ensuring that electric gadgets such as irons and hair curlers turn themselves off when left unattended . |
| 22 | The research , entirely funded by a charity , Quest for a Test for Cancer , has come up with a way of determining exactly how much stain the DNA has taken up . |
| 23 | A MONTREAL donor has come up with a smoking cud that he claims is better than 85 per cent effective . |
| 24 | I HAVE burned the midnight oil scanning the arid wastes of computer programming manuals , but at last a publisher has come up with a series of inexpensive , factually sound but palatable titles which aim to introduce the beginner to the fun that can be had with calculators , computers and cassette recorders . |
| 25 | The government has still not come up with a dump for the masses of intermediate wastes , such as fuel cladding , that the plant would produce . |
| 26 | R. W. Blake in the Zoology Department of the University of British Columbia , who made the discovery , has even come up with a name for the strategy . |
| 27 | Recognising the problem , district councillors have come up with a much needed cash injection to ease the crisis . |
| 28 | In recent times it was feared that Venice was sinking , but modern engineering has come up with a way of pumping water from the mainland to boost the underground water base on which the city rests . |
| 29 | It has to be said that , with this membrane idea , BOSS have come up with a brilliant way of programming the ME-10 . |
| 30 | Daniel Galvin in London has come up with a treatment that takes only thirty minutes and rather than causing a dramatic change , it softly camouflages grey hair with a subtle , natural-looking colour . |