Example sentences of "come [adv prt] against the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration .
2 Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby .
3 She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk .
4 Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem .
5 The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard .
6 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 .
7 Once again we come up against the indissoluble limit between the Spirit and Jesus .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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