Example sentences of "[vb past] up against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February of 1982 , the Sunni fundamentalists of Hama rose up against the Alawite regime . |
| 2 | There came a day , said Freud , the sons in frustration , rose up against the primal father , murdered him , ate him , in a grisly act of cannibalism , raped the mothers and sisters , and then having gratified the positive side of , of the negative side of their ambivalence , about the primal father , their hate for him , their desire to supplant him , and so on , were left with the positive side unsatisfied . |
| 3 | It is a real moral aberration that leaves at liberty those who violated human dignity and those who rose up against the constitutional order . ’ |
| 4 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 5 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
| 6 | Frontier youth workers came up against the destructive , deceptive nature of evil in many of its present forms . |
| 7 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 8 | The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard . |
| 9 | There was a distinct nip in the air as , on the last day of November , the huddle of international yachting journalists , collars turned up against the northerly wind , made their way through the doors of the 30th Salon Nautique . |
| 10 | From the window of his room on the top floor of the tenement building , Joe could see down into old Mr Webb 's office at the rear of the shop , and the outline of scores of books were clearly visible poled up against the filthy windows . |
| 11 | But even as she vowed to protect she was filled with terror at the unhappiness the fleeting expressions rehearsed ; pulled up against the staggering independence of this creature to experience its own ranges of reaction , its life , quite separate from and un-understood by her . |
| 12 | The blind man nodded , spoke up against the weary roar of the airstream that broke like surf on this rocky spur deep in Antarctic Mars , and in his voice was a smile , the first emotional response he 'd given them . |