Example sentences of "come [adv prt] against the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both Nicaragua and Mozambique , the governments have come up against the question of choosing which language or languages to teach in . |
| 2 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 3 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 4 | But Machynlleth councillors have come out against the Trust 's plans to close the district hospital and have vowed to campaign to save it . |
| 5 | It came down against the crash barrier . |
| 6 | Stewart was suddenly violent , he backed away from Menzies , came up against the door , turned , and was gone . |
| 7 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
| 8 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 9 | A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands . |
| 10 | As soon as any efforts to form national unions were made , they came up against the imbalance between Glasgow and the rest of the country . ’ |
| 11 | Even more important , perhaps , were the discussions about the notion of a women 's aesthetic : again and again , the attempt to articulate the new and unspoken came up against the absence of an appropriate language . |
| 12 | Separatism , despite any protestations to the contrary , came up against the age old problem of how to transpose the idea onto the material world . |
| 13 | Later that month , the Archbishop of Tuam delivered a sermon in which he came out against the mining . |
| 14 | While recognizing that opinion was divided on the issue , the Council firmly came out against the re-introduction of any form of corporal punishment as a judicial penalty for any criminal offence . |
| 15 | At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State . |
| 16 | ‘ There are people who are ‘ smokers and proud of it ’ who are coming up against the trend that the rest of society wants to see . ’ |
| 17 | And furthermore , with the council tax , you could come up against the question of business rating for that . |
| 18 | You will almost certainly come up against the person who has ordered something and then decided they do n't want it . |
| 19 | The Zekes come in against the line of P–40s , one runs amok as others erupt in flames . |
| 20 | If you are on half pitch , the prongs come up against the ribber sinker posts , so ca n't move in so far . |
| 21 | As a travelling artist , I frequently come up against the problem of transporting my work . |
| 22 | As a travelling artist , I frequently come up against the problem of transporting my work . |
| 23 | Here you come up against the problem of the modern Pyrenees . |
| 24 | I wonder if they have , come up against the rapacity of the , of the rates . |
| 25 | Hang on a minute , I just wan want to work out what happens if a complaint comes in against the Gas board ? |
| 26 | Construct a safety bar ( which is removable ) just below the level of the lower stable door so that when you open the stable door your mare can still rush across , but her breast comes up against the bar . |
| 27 | From time expired senior registrar who despairs of finding that elusive consultant job to the frustrations of the mature , would be medical student who comes up against the agist admissions policies of many British medical schools . |
| 28 | It therefore comes up against the problem that the inevitability of Mosca 's specific type of elite is less immediately plausible and more easily disproved This vulnerability was readily seized on by critics of elite theory . |
| 29 | Pessimistic in the sense that is says people are basically nasty , and if society is to be possible , then nastiness has to be controlled in some way or other , and since human nature is anti-social , social order comes about against the grain of human nature as a rule , has to be imposed on human nature . |