Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands .
5 Two years later the regent came up against more visible opposition .
6 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 .
7 The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard .
8 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 ) .
9 She found that , in the case before her , the balance came down against ordering the return of the children to Australia .
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