Example sentences of "come up against [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EFFORTS to improve atomic clocks have come up against an unexpected hurdle . |
| 2 | However , he was unfortunate to come up against a finely-tuned Remittance Man last March and , although Katabatic ran a cracker , mounting a ferocious challenge up the final climb , he was held by a length at the line . |
| 3 | However , connections were unfortunate to come up against a fine-tuned Remittance Man last March and , although Katabatic ran a cracker , mounting a ferocious challenge up the final climb , he was held by a length at the line . |
| 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 | Donald was in full cry but he came up against a rejuvenated Kapil Dev . |
| 6 | On all sides : the abolitionists , the retentionists , and the abstainers , the vote was recognized as a momentous one in which the consciences of Members of Parliament came up against a profound issue transcending party politics . |
| 7 | For example , Matt Parsley ( Caldy ) came up against an inspired show by Edwards . |
| 8 | For example , Matt Parsley ( Caldy ) came up against an inspired show by Edwards . |
| 9 | But in the Japanese Empire she at last came up against an eastern power developing at a rate comparable to her own , and one capable of offering effective resistance . |
| 10 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 11 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
| 12 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 13 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 14 | The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But they will come up against a different side this time . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In The Quick and the Dead , I had had Richie Quick come up against a similar operator . |
| 19 | Once again we come up against the indissoluble limit between the Spirit and Jesus . |
| 20 | If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth , one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge , but eventually comes back to where one started . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |