Example sentences of "up against the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was funny to see those agents ’ faces when they discovered they were up against the famous Marc Vila ! |
| 2 | The fact that he turned his collar up against the seeping cold indicated that his numbness had been penetrated , yet he was unaware of it . |
| 3 | It would pin him up against the nearest wall and try to eat his clothes , or chase him until his cries of fright attracted everyone 's amused attention . |
| 4 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |
| 5 | Yet this would bump up against the western world 's self-serving policy of subsidised farming , which explains a lot of its enthusiasm for shipping grain to Africa . |
| 6 | Delightfully witty studies are given by Leon Sinden as the brother and by Neville Barber as the most waspish of the Oxford dons who gang up against the female intruder . |
| 7 | They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them . |
| 8 | Dorcas sat in his workshop and stared at the snow piling up against the grubby window , giving the shed a dull grey light . |
| 9 | The table provided in the Library note projects that we shall not come up against the upper ceiling of the present capacity in either this or the next financial year . |
| 10 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 11 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 12 | No it the the head of the bed was up against the far wall the as you look in the room on the right . |
| 13 | He pulled his cowl up against the hot midday sun. ‘ shall we collect our horses ? ’ |
| 14 | They painted an enticing portrait of the bliss that lay ahead if only the peasantry would heed their call and rise up against the established order . |
| 15 | He 's through to his first World Longtrack final … where he 'll be lining up against the best speedway and grasstrack riders . |
| 16 | More often than not the gravel is piled up against the front glass of the tank as though the fish are trying to keep you from prying into their nest . |
| 17 | Dundee 's Andy Nicol , to his astonishment , finds himself lining up against the All Blacks , having begun the season as the Scotland Students ' scrum-half with hopes , possibly at best , of a B-team cap . |
| 18 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 19 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
| 20 | Marketplace , an advertising agency with blue-chip clients such as Sainsburys , took the brave decision to move south of the river and bought an Edwardian warehouse in Holyrood Street , hard up against the high-level railway lines leading into the station . |
| 21 | This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum . |
| 22 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraint of time ’ … |
| 23 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraints of staff time ’ … |
| 24 | For that you have to be up against the real thing . |
| 25 | I 'm up against the six footer , and a five foot ten wife |
| 26 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |
| 27 | The blind man nodded , spoke up against the weary roar of the airstream that broke like surf on this rocky spur deep in Antarctic Mars , and in his voice was a smile , the first emotional response he 'd given them . |
| 28 | Nor was he helped by being up against the mighty deeds of the West Indies in his first two series , and perhaps if he had been able to cut his teeth on something less difficult the story might have had a happier turn to it . |
| 29 | C'm on , will you ? ’ and he gave her a hand suiting up against the outside cold . |
| 30 | He hid his distaste as he pressed his ear up against the dying man 's lips . |