Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lot of guitar players I come up against have lots of good ideas , good little lines , but sometimes their timing is a little bit at odds , ’ he explains . |
| 2 | I do n't want to be one of the best in the world , I want to be the best in the world , and everyone I come up against is a stepping stone to me getting over that bridge . |
| 3 | which er er in my profession as well I come up against all the time and I I think that we 're not really acknowledging that that is very often a cause , for men and women |
| 4 | This heading is quite extravagant on fabric and needs fullness of three times the track length for true box pleats which butt up against each other . |
| 5 | Each aircraft carries approximately 12 seats , which fold up against the wall when not in use . |
| 6 | But most of them finish up against the scaffolding . |
| 7 | ‘ Most of them finish up against the bridge these days , apparently . ’ |
| 8 | This database , however large or small , can then be used to select very quickly certain employees who match up against a particular job profile . |
| 9 | ‘ It might not be exactly the same players who line up against Australia , ’ stressed Fletcher . |
| 10 | As we can see rather graphically here , the difference in if you stand back against that wall if you would very kindly , erm you see here the difference in level between nineteen ninety |
| 11 | Delightfully witty studies are given by Leon Sinden as the brother and by Neville Barber as the most waspish of the Oxford dons who gang up against the female intruder . |
| 12 | Every day you come up against something that you could worry yourself sick about but you 've got to accept it . |
| 13 | Do not be surprised if you come up against some very authoritarian characters — even among your own family — and while confronting feelings and situations is a must , do not consider compromise a weakness . |
| 14 | When you are at this age and you come up against a brick wall , you do sometimes feel like screaming with frustration . |
| 15 | Before you come up against this situation you will have realised that the manual and ‘ first garments ’ books are intended for the Ms/Mrs/Mr Average Figure . |
| 16 | Here you come up against the problem of the modern Pyrenees . |
| 17 | As a teacher I try to do what I can , but in a lot of cases you come up against a brick wall with a lot of racist graffiti on it ! |
| 18 | And when you come up against it , division by zero , it 's not . |
| 19 | Take it on past , the sort of club competitions to major regattas and you come up against sponsorship . |
| 20 | At the time er well I 've always through the roofing right you you come up against site fore you know site foreman general foreman clerk of works and I I 've always got on well with I can always talk to people . |
| 21 | The drives we put on against New Zealand were things that we had worked on and it was very satisfying to see them coming off , not just for the forwards but for the backs as well . |
| 22 | ‘ It means it now rests with the international side to put on the same , if not a better kind of performance as we put on against Norway last month . |
| 23 | ‘ It means it now rests with the international side to put on the same , if not a better kind of performance as we put on against Norway last month . |
| 24 | I think that normally there is a cheque sent through with the notification , which we put in against the COUP 's fees code , but there is n't one this time . |
| 25 | But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses . |
| 26 | But in recognizing the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ as absolute we run up against that imbalance of the organism in the direction of what pleases it , by which it spontaneously expands awareness in one direction by contracting it in others . |
| 27 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |
| 28 | I hope we bounce back against Ipswich on telly on sunday ! ! |
| 29 | But as soon as we bring up this question … we come up against a ‘ sore subject ’ . |
| 30 | Once again we come up against the indissoluble limit between the Spirit and Jesus . |