Example sentences of "[noun] came [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 2 | When the Catholic archbishop came out against Noriega , and fatwahs against him were read out in church , the church services in the middle class suburbs turned into political demonstrations against the regime . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There were more unrelated Smiths playing against each other in the Triangular Tournament of 1912 , when Tiger of England came up against Dave of Australia . |
| 5 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 6 | In late 1988 , Fairclough came up against some of the worst tunnelling conditions its engineers had ever encountered , in sandy ground beneath Tooting Bec Common , south London . |
| 7 | A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands . |
| 8 | Frontier youth workers came up against the destructive , deceptive nature of evil in many of its present forms . |
| 9 | Two years later the regent came up against more visible opposition . |
| 10 | Newcomen came up against Savery 's work when he tried to exploit his steam engines . |
| 11 | Diamond came out against such registration on the grounds , inter alia , that it could mislead in circumstances where shares subject to a fixed charge are held in a company which becomes a subsidiary after the charge has been created . |
| 12 | The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard . |
| 13 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |
| 14 | She found that , in the case before her , the balance came down against ordering the return of the children to Australia . |