Example sentences of "come up against the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
| 2 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 3 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 4 | The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Once again we come up against the indissoluble limit between the Spirit and Jesus . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |