Example sentences of "up against [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thérèse and Léonie stood crushed up against adults they did not know . |
| 2 | How the other tribes lined up against Rome it is impossible to say , but the presence of army units in their territory probably kept the Corieltauvi and the Cornovii quiet , and this would also have applied to the northern Dobunni with a cavalry regiment at Cirencester , but their allegiance was to Rome anyway . |
| 3 | At the Glenburvie course in Scotland he was up against Europe 's top 200 young golfers . |
| 4 | At the Glenburvie course in Scotland he was up against Europe 's top 200 young golfers . |
| 5 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been looking into something like this for about two years and come up against brick walls constantly , ’ she said . |
| 7 | The Liverpool group were up against Elvis Presley , Frank Ifield and evergreen Cliff Richard . |
| 8 | J.B. Well again you see you 're up against tradition all the time , are n't you ? |
| 9 | But they were up against history and another well-backed Jackpot candidate went down . |
| 10 | She tried to hold it up against Constance who pulled away and said loudly , ‘ Yellow ! |
| 11 | But it 's nice to get back on the right tracks and now we have to keep it up against Stockport on Tuesday . |
| 12 | There are rumours that the BIHA will split the play-off groups on a north and south basis , in which case Chelmsford would not be coming up against Trafford again — which is good news . |
| 13 | Whichever way the conversation turned , Theodora reflected , it seemed Miss Dersingham was determined to bring them up against topics which could not be elaborated on . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ More and more evidence is piling up against Sellafield , but they keep trotting out the same old thing — that the radiation levels are within acceptable standards . |
| 15 | The highlight of the men 's events should also be the 50 metres , when North-East outdoor 100 metres champion David Lawson , of Cramlington , lines up against Morpeth Harrier Andrew Abrahams . |
| 16 | John Ferguson , the Canberra Raiders wing who lines up against Widnes tonight in the Foster 's World Club Challenge , is little known outside rugby league circles , but within the game he commands a whispered respect his more famous namesakes might envy . |
| 17 | Dublin photographer Fennell will again drive a Mini Cooper S and will be up against Mervyn Johnston , the Ulster driver who finished second last time . |
| 18 | ‘ The problem , ’ said , senior partner with Dorman Jeffrey , ‘ is that estimating is an art , not a science , and you can still come up against obstacles from the other side and other unforeseen circumstances outwith your control . |
| 19 | ‘ Just by joining the ratings system does n't mean a player will immediately come up against Bates or Durie , ’ the LTA 's events manager Gavin Fletcher told me . |
| 20 | The principle here is that if particular changes in activity bear a constant relationship to the reference event they will show up against fluctuations of the ongoing EEG which , being " random " , should cancel out to zero when averaged over successive trials by the computer . |
| 21 | Arsenal will go top of the League for the first time since May '91 today if they beat Coventry and Blackburn slip up against Spurs at Ewood Park . |
| 22 | Another throw-back to the past was reported by the Roslavl' Party cell in January : at a volost' meeting an ex-member of the Kadet Party had spoken up against taxation . |
| 23 | Relying upon authority rather than cultivating widespread support , he soon came up against resistance from those who detected a tampering with the basic fabric of Orthodoxy . |
| 24 | In the Fawlty Towers belt of Torquay , abandoned hotels have been boarded up against vandals . |
| 25 | It is not hard to see how attempts to value popular culture or television , or to legitimize their academic study , come up against Adorno and Horkheimer as a check which it may be easier to think around than to think through . |
| 26 | Richard Harris and Gene Hackman have been in Westerns before but never one as good as this ( indeed , Harris ' character 's inflation of his own pompous myth relates to the sham of his A Man Called Horse ) , which is a key to their characterisations and the way they are constantly stacked up against Eastwood . |
| 27 | It is believed Sun and USL , which reportedly realise the potential hiccups with WABI , may try an advanced game of one-upmanship with Microsoft , putting AT&T 's patent portfolio containing such things as Backing Store in the balance up against Windows . |
| 28 | Shoaib , whose previous highest Test score was the 163 he notched up against New Zealand at Wellington earlier this year , added 134 for the fifth wicket with his captain , Imran Khan . |
| 29 | Corsie lines up against South African Bill Moseley . |
| 30 | It was no different in the occupied West Bank where the protesters soon came up against army reinforcements . |