Example sentences of "come [adv] against [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've come through against all predictions , winning five away games in a row . |
| 2 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 3 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 4 | Although the Commissioners are committed not to be swayed by the national interests of their own countries , it is clear that Sir Leon Brittan , the Competition Commissioner , has come up against stiff opposition from his colleagues when he has investigated anti-competitive behaviour in some of their countries , most recently over his veto of the Franco-Italian takeover of De Havilland in October 1991 . |
| 5 | We have come up against some prejudice in the dressage , but the nice thing is that at the end of the test sheets you often see the same comment from the judge — ‘ What a super pony ! ’ . ’ |
| 6 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 7 | Niall Hammond , of the Bowes Museum , said the three trenches they dug all came up against Victorian foundations of a disused cellar . |
| 8 | ‘ You came up against outdoor players , many of them farmers who would simply barrel you backwards in the tight and , if they got to you , in the loose . ’ |
| 9 | We came up against official incompetence as soon as we arrived in Spain . |
| 10 | During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan . |
| 11 | At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later , a quicksand in their path . |
| 12 | He 's being ironic ; in the Navy he came up against arbitrary discipline , the officer class and the English . |
| 13 | Hastening round the keep they came up against unexpected obstruction . |
| 14 | A study of different ways to burn up plutonium by America 's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory came out against such clevernesses , at least as far as using up America 's surplus plutonium is concerned ( though it did recommend more research into a few ) . |
| 15 | Diamond came out against such registration on the grounds , inter alia , that it could mislead in circumstances where shares subject to a fixed charge are held in a company which becomes a subsidiary after the charge has been created . |
| 16 | The first , more than two years ago , considered the feasibility of privatisation and followed reports from the Treasury and the Central Purchasing Unit which came out against wholesale privatisation . |
| 17 | In the campaign 's second half , Mr Major ( apparently without being told to do so by any important surgeon from a teaching hospital ) came out against proportional representation , and Mr Kinnock ( apparently incited by Labour 's teaching hospitals ) as good as came out for it . |
| 18 | Repealers scored a notable success when Simon , in his annual report of 1868 , came out against any extension of the acts . |
| 19 | erm I have had to do in my work quite a lot of work coming up against that act , so to speak . |
| 20 | For one thing , she discovered that her conscience was at fault over Jewish persecution and she blamed herself for not coming out against such cruelty earlier . |
| 21 | A case that is comparatively weak when argued within the department will come up against further problems in this tough forum , and a minister who successfully overrides objections within his or her own department may well lose in this wider battle . |
| 22 | In tomorrow 's quarter-finals , Jackman will come up against Australian Michelle Martin , the fourth seed . |
| 23 | As the psychoanalyst , or therapist , delves into the unconscious of his or her patients , he will come up against phylogenetic material , memory traces of the experiences not of the patient , but of earlier generations of humanity . |
| 24 | In their report , the prime minister 's advisers did not come out against optical fibres altogether . |
| 25 | Tough measures come in against bad drivers |
| 26 | And I had never come up against this kind of approach before . |
| 27 | Before you come up against this situation you will have realised that the manual and ‘ first garments ’ books are intended for the Ms/Mrs/Mr Average Figure . |
| 28 | Firstly , the large-scale transportation of food comes up against environmental difficulties . |
| 29 | However , from time to time the curator 's instinct for identification comes up against scholarly puzzles . |
| 30 | And ‘ Violence and Beauty ’ comes out against all violence in South Africa , including black violence … |