Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] against the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man stands over against the awful otherness of God , by which his own existence is challenged , questioned and judged ; but in faith he finds the power nonetheless to live in that encounter with God by which each present moment becomes a meeting with eternity . |
| 2 | Only Rugby Union holds out against the commercial tide despite widespread speculation about covert payments to players . |
| 3 | Joffe 's pious vision of man 's inhumanity to man all comes together in Pauline Collins ' clinic : it squares off against the local mafia , saves lepers etc . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |
| 6 | However one looks at the early movies one comes up against the decisive contribution of the showmen , but obviously their role was most noticeable in the way the movies were presented . |
| 7 | This panics the fish , which immediately bolts , comes up against the heavy bomb which pulls the hook in some more , and then the back stop hits the bomb and penetration of the hook is complete . |