Example sentences of "[adv] come up against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 3 | As a travelling artist , I frequently come up against the problem of transporting my work . |
| 4 | As a travelling artist , I frequently come up against the problem of transporting my work . |
| 5 | You will almost certainly come up against the person who has ordered something and then decided they do n't want it . |
| 6 | It therefore comes up against the problem that the inevitability of Mosca 's specific type of elite is less immediately plausible and more easily disproved This vulnerability was readily seized on by critics of elite theory . |