Example sentences of "have [adv] come up [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Venice Soprintendenza certainly does not intend to miss out on such an opportunity and has already come up with a proposal , ‘ Dal Museo alla città ’ ( From Museum to City ) , which it estimates would cost L3.8 billion ( £1.76 million ; $3 million ) .
2 No hi-fi speaker maker has ever come up with a woofer that low and resonant .
3 Regardless of all the toing and froing in Christian periodicals regarding women in leadership roles , no one has ever come up with anything remotely convincing which would relieve husbands from the responsibility for the direction of their families .
4 We believe no one has ever come up with better .
5 That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water .
6 The Royal Society has now come up with some concrete recommendations for broader-based science education and postponement of specialisation .
7 A Parliamentary Commission , presided over by Christian Democrat Giorgio Santz has been investigating how the preceding laws have worked and has now come up with its report which shows that in the last eight years , of the L1,500 billion allocated to Venice only L853 billion ( £394.3 million ; $686 million ) have actually been spent .
8 In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% .
9 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 .
10 As well as the scent of ‘ mother 's scalp ’ — the first reassuring odour a new-born baby smells — there is a natural sea scent to overwhelm the chlorine in swimming pools , and even cow-pat perfume for which no one has yet come up with a use .
11 ‘ The subject of marriage has never come up in our relationship . ’
12 One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’
13 ‘ I think you 'd better come up to my room , ’ she mimicked again .
14 Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out .
15 ‘ Well , you 'd better come up to my office and we 'll talk things over . ’
16 The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text .
17 ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs .
18 It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies .
19 This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour .
20 ‘ You had best come up on deck if you are to be sick .
21 He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea .
22 I do n't think I 've ever come up against sexism , except from in the classroom when the teacher to , the economics teacher tries to wind us up by saying women would should be chained to the kitchen sink !
23 They 've also come up with the quaint idea of having a T-shirt recycling stall in the club where you can take your old T-shirts and get a new Dodgy one in exchange .
24 They 've also come up with an amendment to the English battle hymn of recent years : ‘ Swing low , sweet chariot , coming for to carry me home — wards to think again . ’
25 Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer .
26 Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget .
27 When I told him we had recently come up from Southampton he said , " Gee , I would n't go to sea in that little tub for double my wages . "
28 Mrs McTavish used to wonder why she had produced two children who ran to such opposite extremes , but had never come up with an answer .
29 The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing .
30 It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way .
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