Example sentences of "come up against the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both Nicaragua and Mozambique , the governments have come up against the question of choosing which language or languages to teach in . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 4 | A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands . |
| 5 | As soon as any efforts to form national unions were made , they came up against the imbalance between Glasgow and the rest of the country . ’ |
| 6 | Even more important , perhaps , were the discussions about the notion of a women 's aesthetic : again and again , the attempt to articulate the new and unspoken came up against the absence of an appropriate language . |
| 7 | Of course , once we got into government a great many of our ambitions and aims and the ideas we 'd seized hold of from talking to the Americans , people like Robert McNamara for instance , of the American Department of Defense , came up against the realities of Whitehall . |
| 8 | And furthermore , with the council tax , you could come up against the question of business rating for that . |
| 9 | As a travelling artist , I frequently come up against the problem of transporting my work . |
| 10 | As a travelling artist , I frequently come up against the problem of transporting my work . |
| 11 | Here you come up against the problem of the modern Pyrenees . |
| 12 | I wonder if they have , come up against the rapacity of the , of the rates . |