Example sentences of "to come up [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The producer/singer 's record company has been forced to come up with all kinds of excuses . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The unions recognise this first meeting is unlikely to come up with immediate proposals , but wants to meet workers to develop a product diversification strategy . |
| 4 | We 've seen community participation in trying to come up with immediate solutions to the problems resulting from the war — we 're talking particularly about materials and infrastructure . |
| 5 | Police committee Chairman Colin Hay said he does n't expect the new man to come up with instant solutions to the problem of rising crime : |
| 6 | ‘ Is there something , ’ George asked icily , ‘ about the atmosphere of this place that causes you to come up with such expressions ? |
| 7 | However , we believe that those who are determined to understand a phenomenon and to follow their research and their intuition wherever they may lead , are on the balance of probabilities , perhaps more likely to come up with new knowledge than those who are trying to solve a narrowly defined problem or to develop a product . |
| 8 | If BA fails to come up with new proposals before the deadline , the Virgin chief may pursue a settlement in the US or European courts . |
| 9 | That , in his view , is long enough to be able to come up with new ideas and see them implemented . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He said Russian president Boris Yeltsin had failed to come up with new ideas and had put politics above the national interest . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is important to come up with new ideas . |
| 14 | The onus now lay upon the architect to come up with new designs and new ideas with which to counter the rapidly growing effectiveness of artillery aided , from about 1430 , by the reversion to the use of cast-iron shot which , although more expensive than stone shot , did not shatter on impact , could be made more uniformly in greater quantities ( the making of stone shot was , to say the least , laborious ) and in smaller calibre , thereby increasing efficiency by reducing the need for very large and unwieldy cannon . |
| 15 | He warned : ‘ We can not be expected to come up with good ideas if the Government continues to reduce our budget every year . |
| 16 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 17 | Since this is a theoretical chapter it is difficult to come up with practical work . |
| 18 | The government has now accepted the arguments , but it has failed to come up with effective solutions " . |
| 19 | And they 'll press shops and trolley manufacturers to come up with better designs and clearer instructions . |
| 20 | For students all too easily feel that they have to come up with negative assessments if their appraisals are to be worth anything . |
| 21 | Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year . |
| 22 | The aim of this project is to investigate these problems and to come up with suggested methods of analysis which are generally applicable to complex surveys . |
| 23 | If the Bill is enacted , as I hope that it will be , I hope that extra impetus will be given to road traffic engineers to come up with innovative schemes . |
| 24 | Last autumn he won round one when President Bush appointed him to lead a cabinet ‘ empowerment task force ’ , told to come up with specific proposals . |
| 25 | It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan . |
| 26 | At a meeting this May the Agricultural Ministers agreed that reform was necessary and gave each other a deadline of June 1993 to come up with concrete proposals . |
| 27 | The job of the providers is to come up with best combination of service and cost . |
| 28 | It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form . |
| 29 | Even if the student is not able to come up with alternative offerings of his or her own , at least he or she can say with some honesty : ‘ I believe that to be the case , and this is why . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |