Example sentences of "bring [pron] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Surely , then , Kenneth , this great grudge of theirs will bring them out against the enlistment ? ’ |
| 2 | It brought me up against the fact that I 'd like him to be better off so I could have more options . |
| 3 | He would never have thought of bringing it out against Yussuf . |
| 4 | Whichever way the conversation turned , Theodora reflected , it seemed Miss Dersingham was determined to bring them up against topics which could not be elaborated on . |
| 5 | The maintenance of legal definitions of public order , based on a principle of ‘ free circulation ’ , inevitably brings them up against the annexation of the street by male youth culture . |
| 6 | No one brings it up against any of these , that here is a man who , without any technical qualifications is yet trying to give advice . |
| 7 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraint of time ’ … |
| 8 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraints of staff time ’ … |
| 9 | However , starting from civil society has the virtue of starting from how people do lead their lives and brings us up against questions about how social changes have transformed the range of possibilities available to them . |