Example sentences of "came [adv prt] against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came down against the crash barrier . |
| 2 | Donald was in full cry but he came up against a rejuvenated Kapil Dev . |
| 3 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 4 | On all sides : the abolitionists , the retentionists , and the abstainers , the vote was recognized as a momentous one in which the consciences of Members of Parliament came up against a profound issue transcending party politics . |
| 5 | The first time I came up against a woman comandante … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | [ 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 . ] |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps she did , and when she came up against a brick wall she turned to me . |
| 9 | However , the conception we have just been briefly outlining came up against a number of philosophical difficulties . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But in the Japanese Empire she at last came up against an eastern power developing at a rate comparable to her own , and one capable of offering effective resistance . |
| 13 | For example , Matt Parsley ( Caldy ) came up against an inspired show by Edwards . |
| 14 | For example , Matt Parsley ( Caldy ) came up against an inspired show by Edwards . |
| 15 | Stewart was suddenly violent , he backed away from Menzies , came up against the door , turned , and was gone . |
| 16 | Frontier youth workers came up against the destructive , deceptive nature of evil in many of its present forms . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 19 | ONCE-RACED MILIYEL * , who came up against the 1,000 Guineas ante-post favourite Musicale when both made their debut at Lingfield last season , may open her account in the Geoffrey Barling Maiden Fillies ' Stakes ( 2.00 ) at Newmarket today . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard . |
| 25 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 26 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
| 27 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 28 | A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands . |
| 29 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |