Example sentences of "[noun] have come [adv prt] against [art] " in BNC.

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1 The governing body of English basketball has come out against a top woman player who wants to compete with men .
2 In both Nicaragua and Mozambique , the governments have come up against the question of choosing which language or languages to teach in .
3 EFFORTS to improve atomic clocks have come up against an unexpected hurdle .
4 By then other intellectuals had come out against the radicals .
5 But Machynlleth councillors have come out against the Trust 's plans to close the district hospital and have vowed to campaign to save it .
6 From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration .
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