Example sentences of "[adv] up against [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In science , especially the hard sciences , the culprits are normally up against a robust professional consensus that defines excellence , originality , and the nature of evidence . |
| 2 | The local army base , a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower , is pressed right up against a primary school . |
| 3 | Not only because of the risk and the safety factor er of the gun going off , because of er a movement by that person on the floor , but so there 's no getting around it that , should a firearm be discharged against a solid object in as much as er the barrel is right up against an individual , and the trigger is pulled . |
| 4 | Little Billy shifted his position and placed one eye right up against the square hole that was no bigger than a postage stamp . |
| 5 | These final examples of persistent facies brings us right up against the obvious explanation of a climatic control , and certainly strong arguments have been put forward on climatic grounds to explain some of the carbonate distributions . |
| 6 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 7 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 8 | She was out cruising for a bruising from morning till night , and when she was apprehended soliciting for trade up the high street and gated for the evening , she spent it flat up against the back room window , flashing her underparts at any passing Harry , Dick or certainly Tom , and making the most loud and ear-curdling noises by way of enticement . |
| 9 | Novos ' brave attempt to make a game of it was rewarded with a try tight up against the left wing touchline by Gus Walker . |