Example sentences of "[verb] up against the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime . |
| 2 | There came a day , said Freud , the sons in frustration , rose up against the primal father , murdered him , ate him , in a grisly act of cannibalism , raped the mothers and sisters , and then having gratified the positive side of , of the negative side of their ambivalence , about the primal father , their hate for him , their desire to supplant him , and so on , were left with the positive side unsatisfied . |
| 3 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 4 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 5 | The Poles , through Commissioner General Marian Chodacki , said that what went on to their stamps was their business , and they were genuinely mystified that Danzigers whose ancestors had risen up against the Teutonic Knights should feel offended by stamps that celebrated their victory . |
| 6 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 7 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
| 8 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 10 | The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard . |
| 11 | ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today . |
| 12 | He 's through to his first World Longtrack final … where he 'll be lining up against the best speedway and grasstrack riders . |
| 13 | Dundee 's Andy Nicol , to his astonishment , finds himself lining up against the All Blacks , having begun the season as the Scotland Students ' scrum-half with hopes , possibly at best , of a B-team cap . |
| 14 | There was a distinct nip in the air as , on the last day of November , the huddle of international yachting journalists , collars turned up against the northerly wind , made their way through the doors of the 30th Salon Nautique . |
| 15 | Delightfully witty studies are given by Leon Sinden as the brother and by Neville Barber as the most waspish of the Oxford dons who gang up against the female intruder . |
| 16 | Yet this would bump up against the western world 's self-serving policy of subsidised farming , which explains a lot of its enthusiasm for shipping grain to Africa . |
| 17 | These factors have stacked up against the amateur game : a preponderance of Tours to house players ; a huge glamour industry attached to the pro game that seduces the players ; parents wanting to push their sons into a life of perceived prestige and an automatic aspiration to be a pro among most players of ability . |
| 18 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 19 | Tomorrow we 'll test the strings we 've made , and see how they measure up against the old ones for reliability . |
| 20 | From the window of his room on the top floor of the tenement building , Joe could see down into old Mr Webb 's office at the rear of the shop , and the outline of scores of books were clearly visible poled up against the filthy windows . |
| 21 | But even as she vowed to protect she was filled with terror at the unhappiness the fleeting expressions rehearsed ; pulled up against the staggering independence of this creature to experience its own ranges of reaction , its life , quite separate from and un-understood by her . |
| 22 | Only a flicker from the television , reflected in the gloss of his eye and thrown up against the blank darkness , lent him the illusion of a lustre passing through her body , opaline . |
| 23 | The table provided in the Library note projects that we shall not come up against the upper ceiling of the present capacity in either this or the next financial year . |
| 24 | On the pasture near-by Hazel could see scattered , russet-and-orange-coloured fragments , some with feathery , light-green foliage showing up against the darker grass . |
| 25 | The blind man nodded , spoke up against the weary roar of the airstream that broke like surf on this rocky spur deep in Antarctic Mars , and in his voice was a smile , the first emotional response he 'd given them . |
| 26 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 27 | She standing up against the racial stereotype with purple hair . |
| 28 | They painted an enticing portrait of the bliss that lay ahead if only the peasantry would heed their call and rise up against the established order . |
| 29 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |
| 30 | This means , in turn , that the initial state of the learner must be as a possessor of vast battalions of hypotheses which are selected out as the child bumps up against the physical world and the human conceptual system . |