Example sentences of "[noun] come [adv prt] against [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 2 | However , from time to time the curator 's instinct for identification comes up against scholarly puzzles . |
| 3 | Tough measures come in against bad drivers |
| 4 | Firstly , the large-scale transportation of food comes up against environmental difficulties . |
| 5 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |