Example sentences of "run [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses . |
| 2 | But in recognizing the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ as absolute we run up against that imbalance of the organism in the direction of what pleases it , by which it spontaneously expands awareness in one direction by contracting it in others . |
| 3 | West Byfleet-based Halcyon Direct Ltd is shipping Remotely Possible/Dial from Avalan Technology Inc the product is designed to enable users control remote Windows machines over a modem link and the company says that it overcomes speed restrictions that some similar products run up against when communicating in a graphic intensive environment ; it costs £145 . |
| 4 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |
| 5 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 6 | Never before had Ramsey run up against so formidable a Christian opponent , and never before been so forced to defend his biblical ideas . |
| 7 | In this way , new requests for credit may run up against a powerful and undeniably sensible combination of background knowledge and personal experience which rules them out , even when the applicant whose personal circumstances ring these alarm bells would have been a satisfactory payer . |
| 8 | Or not been let run up against them ) , and then the " ungrammaticality " of *John was seen leave is explained by the absence of to . |
| 9 | A CONTROVERSIAL plan to charge foreign three-day-event riders a £500-a-season licence fee to compete in Britain has been dropped because it could run up against European regulations . |
| 10 | No , the luck would run out against in-form Ards at Ballymena Showgrounds and Ian Bustard 's tremendous opening goal for Paul Malone 's side certainly added fuel to that theory . |
| 11 | The idea that the only way of coping with the desuetude of the age , its profound certainty that everything has been said already , is by openly proclaiming this fact as itself the new fact , the idea that the only way of selling your article as original is to declare that it is repro , seems to run up against an ethical objection in a writer like Palandri , however sophisticated his own literary apparatus undoubtedly is . |
| 12 | Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes play off against each other in a comedic buddy movie about two hustlers who team up to cream money off LA 's kerb-side courts , only to run up against problems with girls ( Rosie Perez , Tyra Ferrell ) and gangsters . |
| 13 | Despite our growth our financial problems became acute when we bought a computer , we needed to handle all our administration , and began running up against our overdraft limit . |
| 14 | I was always running up against her and being told that I had a shoelace undone , or my buttons needed polishing , or my hair was touching my collar , Airwoman ! |
| 15 | Yet despite a steady growth in its audience , the HGO is now running up against some very hard economic realities . |
| 16 | To the extent that these may appear antithetical to modernism , not only in practice but also in theory , then we may find ourselves running up against the limits of our modernist frameworks of understanding . |
| 17 | In a man 's world you were forever running up against things . |
| 18 | The draw has produced some cracking games , with Neil Booth of County Antrim running up against reigning world indoor singles champion Richard Corsie in the quarter-final . |
| 19 | The draw has produced some cracking games , with Neil Booth of County Antrim running up against reigning world indoor singles champion Richard Corsie in the quarter-final . |
| 20 | Time and time again they have run up against unsurmountable problems of distributing and getting the drugs accepted . |
| 21 | In the sciences of course the possibility of pure objectivity has been a convenient and fruitful assumption , which has only recently run up against its limitations . |
| 22 | When scientists attempt to unravel the mysteries of the past they always run up against a brick wall . |
| 23 | The Museum of Contemporary Art has run up against community opposition to its $55-million proposal to redevelop a two-acre block in the city 's Streeterville district . |
| 24 | The competitive weakness of the British economy was truly overdetermined : even if the financial institutions had been more disposed towards promoting industrial investment , even if managements had been more competent and imaginative , the restructuring of industry would still have run up against the formidable defensive conservatism of the organised working class . |
| 25 | I feel as though I have run up against ‘ The System ’ in all its indifferent , anonymous power . |
| 26 | Notably , he ran up against director Henry Hathaway who was known as one of the toughest directors in the business , and Hopper had a minor role in From Hell to Texas . |
| 27 | Ran up against it once . |
| 28 | He immediately set about making contacts , with Baron Grimm and other German expatriates ; but , as before , he quickly ran up against snobbery , xenophobia and intrigue . |
| 29 | Consequently , Reagan , in looking for support from conservative Republicans , ran up against the reality that many of those same people felt bound by obligations to Nixon , who duly won the nomination on the first ballot at the Convention . |
| 30 | Attempts in Belfast to investigate experimentally constraints on the highly stigmatized non-standard concord rule ( see 7.4 ) ran up against these problems , and similar difficulties are encountered with bilingual speakers ( 8.3.2 ) . |