Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | In science , especially the hard sciences , the culprits are normally up against a robust professional consensus that defines excellence , originality , and the nature of evidence . |
| 2 | And the nature of the business is such that , that you 're always up against a deadline . |
| 3 | ‘ But at England level you are always up against the best from another country and unless you get the basics right you are in trouble . |
| 4 | ‘ Linfield have a stronger squad than last season with all their new signings but they are also up against tougher opposition . |
| 5 | But when you are really up against it there are times when the only way to win is by a little crafty reinterpretation of the rules . |
| 6 | They have professional obligations to engage in that kind of scholarly work ; and , in that sense , be right up against the ‘ frontiers ’ . |
| 7 | With Okapi '86 we were already up against hardware constraints , as much due to disk access times as to CPU speed . |
| 8 | With twelve and a half hours left , England were clearly up against it , so when the rain fell on the fourth day they were not too upset . |
| 9 | But it 's right up against the house , it 's got ta come down . |
| 10 | Not only because of the risk and the safety factor er of the gun going off , because of er a movement by that person on the floor , but so there 's no getting around it that , should a firearm be discharged against a solid object in as much as er the barrel is right up against an individual , and the trigger is pulled . |
| 11 | As my comrade from Scotland says John Prescott has done a good job here , but I have to say it 's not up against very much . |
| 12 | The Bundesbank 's refusal to cut German interest rates pushed the pound to a new low of two marks , forty-three and it 's also down against the dollar at one , seventy-one . |
| 13 | Tug lay very still and concentrated on breathing and the voice went on , so softly that it was only just possible to hear it , even though Doyle 's face was right up against his ear . |
| 14 | Other times it was dinner ; twice he took her dancing , the smoochy old-fashioned sort of dancing , not a disco , the sort where she was right up against him and his hands held her in a strong , commanding kind of way . |
| 15 | Mr Davies said : ‘ Mrs Morgan was right back against the fence but was struck as this juggernaut continued on its way . ’ |
| 16 | But it was n't up against dreary prison walls . |
| 17 | I 'm talking about the the overshoot , and my comments about greenfield sites were related to period eighty one to ninety two , and it became quite clear during the eighties that the sketch plan green belt or development was at that time , through the eighties , was by and large abutting onto the urban area , that er through the eighties what everybody understood to the sketch plan green belt was tight up against er the urban area , so in resisting urban greenfield sites erm on the urban edge through the eighties the County Council were recognizing the greenbelt constraints . |