Example sentences of "came [adv prt] against [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Niall Hammond , of the Bowes Museum , said the three trenches they dug all came up against Victorian foundations of a disused cellar . |
| 2 | ‘ You came up against outdoor players , many of them farmers who would simply barrel you backwards in the tight and , if they got to you , in the loose . ’ |
| 3 | We came up against official incompetence as soon as we arrived in Spain . |
| 4 | He 's being ironic ; in the Navy he came up against arbitrary discipline , the officer class and the English . |
| 5 | Hastening round the keep they came up against unexpected obstruction . |
| 6 | Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against social and institutional obstacles which prevented or inhibited it , and in so doing also stood in the way of the other great task which capitalist — or indeed any — industrial development set its landed sector . |
| 7 | The first , more than two years ago , considered the feasibility of privatisation and followed reports from the Treasury and the Central Purchasing Unit which came out against wholesale privatisation . |
| 8 | In the campaign 's second half , Mr Major ( apparently without being told to do so by any important surgeon from a teaching hospital ) came out against proportional representation , and Mr Kinnock ( apparently incited by Labour 's teaching hospitals ) as good as came out for it . |