Example sentences of "come up against the [noun] " 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 | Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court . |
| 5 | Stewart was suddenly violent , he backed away from Menzies , came up against the door , turned , and was gone . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 8 | A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Of course , once we got into government a great many of our ambitions and aims and the ideas we 'd seized hold of from talking to the Americans , people like Robert McNamara for instance , of the American Department of Defense , came up against the realities of Whitehall . |
| 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 | At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | And furthermore , with the council tax , you could come up against the question of business rating for that . |
| 16 | You will almost certainly come up against the person who has ordered something and then decided they do n't want it . |
| 17 | If you are on half pitch , the prongs come up against the ribber sinker posts , so ca n't move in so far . |
| 18 | As a travelling artist , I frequently come up against the problem of transporting my work . |
| 19 | As a travelling artist , I frequently come up against the problem of transporting my work . |
| 20 | Here you come up against the problem of the modern Pyrenees . |
| 21 | I wonder if they have , come up against the rapacity of the , of the rates . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |