Example sentences of "come [adv prt] against [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Niall Hammond , of the Bowes Museum , said the three trenches they dug all came up against Victorian foundations of a disused cellar . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | We came up against official incompetence as soon as we arrived in Spain . |
| 6 | He 's being ironic ; in the Navy he came up against arbitrary discipline , the officer class and the English . |
| 7 | Hastening round the keep they came up against unexpected obstruction . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In tomorrow 's quarter-finals , Jackman will come up against Australian Michelle Martin , the fourth seed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In their report , the prime minister 's advisers did not come out against optical fibres altogether . |
| 13 | Tough measures come in against bad drivers |
| 14 | Firstly , the large-scale transportation of food comes up against environmental difficulties . |
| 15 | However , from time to time the curator 's instinct for identification comes up against scholarly puzzles . |