Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clement admitted : ‘ I might be up against it to play against England on February 6 . |
| 2 | You 'll be up against it with those two young men so near you . |
| 3 | Robert Dunlop says its a good team and on Easter friday he 'll be up against the best in the world … he 's a positive man and hopes to be British champion this year |
| 4 | So he 'll be up against |
| 5 | It 's when they start getting round to looking at our facility agreements , start looking at how we 're organizing , the councillors , even if it 's the Labour Council as it is Manchester , will soon cotton on to the , in the , soon cotton to their , their , their potential power in terms of threatening our ability to organize and UNISON wo n't actually be that far behind persuading them to do , to do that because they want to see the G M B getting smashed in local authorities up and down the country which means as far as I can see , we need some resources coming in to assist in our branches with local authority membership pretty damn quick , because otherwise we , come July the first , we 're gon na find we 'll be up against it . |
| 6 | You do n't know what you may be up against . " |
| 7 | One floor would be up against another . ’ |
| 8 | How comfortable it would be up against his warm back . |
| 9 | Del , 33 , from Chipping Norton , Oxfordshire , will be up against man mountains Hawk and Saracen in LWT 's autumn show , The Gladiators . |
| 10 | CHAMPIONS Leeds will be up against a familiar figure tonight — a Gordon Strachan clone ! |
| 11 | ‘ Sunday 's game will be a good test of what we will be up against . |
| 12 | And he has some pertinent , if hardly startling , things to say about future constraints which car designers and manufacturers will be up against . |
| 13 | Having lost twice to Ards this season , manager Billy Sinclair knows his improving side will be up against it . |
| 14 | Dublin photographer Fennell will again drive a Mini Cooper S and will be up against Mervyn Johnston , the Ulster driver who finished second last time . |
| 15 | Clearly , the Crues will be up against it . |
| 16 | It will be the first of only six 400m hurdles races she is planning in her build-up to the world championships in Stuttgart and she will be up against Vera Ordina , the 25 year-old Russian Olympic finalist who Gunnell has identified as a major threat this summer . |
| 17 | THE depleted North-Eastern Counties team will be up against one of the region 's leading Olympic hopefuls in the inter-counties championships at Corby today . |
| 18 | Now , however , in England , they will be up against another pack with a towering trinity and , in the 6ft10in Martin Bayfield and the 6ft8in Wade Dooley , up against bigger men . |
| 19 | Implicit , if not admitted , is the Scottish Office fear that its staff will be up against it to deal with every form in time . |