Example sentences of "come up [prep] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come up with one idea , though , which had turned out to be a blinder at Christmastime . |
| 2 | That , in his view , is long enough to be able to come up with new ideas and see them implemented . |
| 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 | He said Russian president Boris Yeltsin had failed to come up with new ideas and had put politics above the national interest . |
| 5 | This was followed by Lord Arran 's speech at the Balmoral Show where , according to some reports , Lord Arran seemed to challenge his own civil servants to come up with new ideas . |
| 6 | It is important to come up with new ideas . |
| 7 | He warned : ‘ We can not be expected to come up with good ideas if the Government continues to reduce our budget every year . |
| 8 | You might well be able to come up with more ideas of your own . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |
| 11 | Car horns had no effect , and we were beginning to think that shanks ' pony was the only way of attracting his attention when someone came up with this idea . ) |
| 12 | With the help of my husband who is an importer of clocks , we came up with this idea . |
| 13 | Spirits dashed , Fonda and Hopper came up with another idea for a picture called The Queen , starring themselves and Jack Nicholson as Robert McNamara , Dean Rusk and Lyndon Johnson apparently plotting the assassination of John F. Kennedy . |
| 14 | He had a gift for coming up with innovative ideas , suggesting links that others would never dream of , and testing them in a rough way to see if they were flawed or might instead lead somewhere . |
| 15 | Perhaps the TECs are coming up with new ideas about the sort of training that should be developed . |
| 16 | Mary 's quite good coming up with new ideas and new lines of thought on various subjects |
| 17 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
| 18 | It 's not often that I can say a piece of equipment is inspiring , but reviewing the A2 actually got me coming up with some ideas that I just had to get on tape . |
| 19 | ‘ It ca n't be helping much , if you keep coming up with crazy ideas about what I 'm supposed to be up to . ’ |
| 20 | I mean what really your hope in looking after that is is they will come up with some idea of publishing . |
| 21 | They might also come up with some ideas the teacher had not thought of . |
| 22 | Where did it How did we s we come up with this idea of ten to the minus three ? |
| 23 | People such as Richard Branson and the Body Shop founders constantly come up with new ideas . |
| 24 | With a good , happy and well-looked-after staff and a first-class butler in charge of everything , all you needed was a committee of half a dozen blokes who were elected by popular vote to keep an eye on things and keep things lively , come up with new ideas , that sort of stuff . |
| 25 | As John Harvey , director of public health , put it , many of the teams take a very global view for their client group , consult widely , come up with good ideas , and are responsive to users , but their influence is tiny . |
| 26 | If anyone comes up with extra ideas , that we or have n't covered , |
| 27 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |
| 28 | One is very pure satire , and he comes up with this idea as well . |
| 29 | Eh , I do n't know who comes up with these ideas , I do n't honest . |