Example sentences of "[vb -s] up against [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means , in turn , that the initial state of the learner must be as a possessor of vast battalions of hypotheses which are selected out as the child bumps up against the physical world and the human conceptual system . |
| 2 | If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth , one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge , but eventually comes back to where one started . |
| 3 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |
| 4 | However one looks at the early movies one comes up against the decisive contribution of the showmen , but obviously their role was most noticeable in the way the movies were presented . |
| 5 | Even the research listed by the ‘ independent ’ Police Foundation or undertaken at the University Centres for Criminological Research ( and largely dependent on government grants and funding by such bodies as the Economic and Social Research Council ) often comes up against the anti — intellectual bias which permeates all levels in police thinking ( Lewis 1976 ) . |
| 6 | This panics the fish , which immediately bolts , comes up against the heavy bomb which pulls the hook in some more , and then the back stop hits the bomb and penetration of the hook is complete . |
| 7 | What happens then is that faith runs up against an awkward question or a scornful dismissal , and suddenly everything that had seemed so unmistakably certain , meaningful , true , collapses like a balloon leaving the remnants of faith limp and deflated . |