Example sentences of "to come up [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 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 .
8 That , in his view , is long enough to be able to come up with new ideas and see them implemented .
9 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 .
10 He said Russian president Boris Yeltsin had failed to come up with new ideas and had put politics above the national interest .
11 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 .
12 It is important to come up with new ideas .
13 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 .
14 He warned : ‘ We can not be expected to come up with good ideas if the Government continues to reduce our budget every year .
15 Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results .
16 The government has now accepted the arguments , but it has failed to come up with effective solutions " .
17 And they 'll press shops and trolley manufacturers to come up with better designs and clearer instructions .
18 For students all too easily feel that they have to come up with negative assessments if their appraisals are to be worth anything .
19 Amazingly , all Sony 's competitors doubt the success of the mini-portable and fail to come up with rival versions for almost a year .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 . ’
27 Conrad ( 1965 , pp. 12–13 ) , in his interesting study of penal practice in nine different European countries , was able to come up with five postulates shared by penal administrators in all of them ; and they spell out precisely the rehabilitative programme :
28 We expect the authorities to come up with imaginative schemes , designed to tackle specific local crime problems , such as kerb crawling , mugging and burglary .
29 It 's important to stress the relationship with Social Services , in that the Agency staff who link the very wide range of people from Social Services , often those people who hold local budgets and are in a position , using the funding that we have allocated to diverse things , to come up with creative solutions for , for er , keeping people at home rather than in , in institutional care .
30 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 .
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