Example sentences of "comes [adv prt] against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hang on a minute , I just wan want to work out what happens if a complaint comes in against the Gas board ? |
| 2 | Construct a safety bar ( which is removable ) just below the level of the lower stable door so that when you open the stable door your mare can still rush across , but her breast comes up against the bar . |
| 3 | From time expired senior registrar who despairs of finding that elusive consultant job to the frustrations of the mature , would be medical student who comes up against the agist admissions policies of many British medical schools . |
| 4 | It therefore comes up against the problem that the inevitability of Mosca 's specific type of elite is less immediately plausible and more easily disproved This vulnerability was readily seized on by critics of elite theory . |
| 5 | Pessimistic in the sense that is says people are basically nasty , and if society is to be possible , then nastiness has to be controlled in some way or other , and since human nature is anti-social , social order comes about against the grain of human nature as a rule , has to be imposed on human nature . |