Example sentences of "come up against the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
2 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
3 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
4 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
5 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
6 | The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Once again we come up against the indissoluble limit between the Spirit and Jesus . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |