Example sentences of "come up against [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm anyway it was a wonderful place , wonderful relationship with the men and erm about the only odd thing about it I 've come up against a snag which I did n't think I 've had a ghost writer , I 've got publishers , and as I ca n't get er permission for all the photos that I want . |
| 2 | I wonder if they have come up against a rapacity of the of the rates . |
| 3 | In both Nicaragua and Mozambique , the governments have come up against the question of choosing which language or languages to teach in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall ? |
| 7 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 8 | Aristotle believed that matter was continuous , that is , one could divide a piece of matter into smaller and smaller bits without any limit : one never came up against a grain of matter that could not be divided further . |
| 9 | [ The recommendations were not well received , and came up against a shortage of appropriately qualified teachers and the determination on the part of the grammar and public schools to defend the Crowther notion of sixth form study in depth . ] |
| 10 | We then came up against a stop , and as I said a moment ago , our choice was between that budget , as negotiated , and the Labour budget , and I 've just shown you one hole in that budget . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps she did , and when she came up against a brick wall she turned to me . |
| 12 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 13 | However , the conception we have just been briefly outlining came up against a number of philosophical difficulties . |
| 14 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 15 | Oxfordshire have had the toughest task of all against the championship leaders Glamorgan at swansea … they got some early wickets but then came up against a chap called Richards … |
| 16 | Stewart was suddenly violent , he backed away from Menzies , came up against the door , turned , and was gone . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 19 | A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Separatism , despite any protestations to the contrary , came up against the age old problem of how to transpose the idea onto the material world . |
| 23 | of a much more basic malaise and structural phenomenon , namely the inability of the marketable output ( largely industrial ) sector to grow as fast as productivity growth without the economy coming up against a balance of payments constraint , due to a high U.K. income elasticity of demand for imports , coupled with a much lower world income elasticity of demand for U.K exports . |
| 24 | At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Stott went on : ‘ Investigative journalism like this has proved that no Minister , however powerful , however rich , however threatening he might be , can come up against a newspaper that is prepared to tell the truth . |
| 27 | And furthermore , with the council tax , you could come up against the question of business rating for that . |
| 28 | You will almost certainly come up against the person who has ordered something and then decided they do n't want it . |
| 29 | When you are at this age and you come up against a brick wall , you do sometimes feel like screaming with frustration . |
| 30 | As a teacher I try to do what I can , but in a lot of cases you come up against a brick wall with a lot of racist graffiti on it ! |