Example sentences of "come [adv prt] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 2 | In both Nicaragua and Mozambique , the governments have come up against the question of choosing which language or languages to teach in . |
| 3 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 4 | Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court . |
| 5 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 6 | By then other intellectuals had come out against the radicals . |
| 7 | From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration . |
| 8 | But Machynlleth councillors have come out against the Trust 's plans to close the district hospital and have vowed to campaign to save it . |
| 9 | RESIDENTS in the area where a new superstore is planned have come out against the proposals . |
| 10 | It came down against the crash barrier . |
| 11 | Stewart was suddenly violent , he backed away from Menzies , came up against the door , turned , and was gone . |
| 12 | Frontier youth workers came up against the destructive , deceptive nature of evil in many of its present forms . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She came up against the unsolved riddle with a horrible jerk . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance . |
| 18 | Separatism , despite any protestations to the contrary , came up against the age old problem of how to transpose the idea onto the material world . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | The dropping man came up against the wrought iron , and glass powder sifted like fairy dust down into the courtyard . |
| 21 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |
| 22 | Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby . |
| 23 | For the first time Gould came up against the devastating effects of unlimited commercial exploitation . |
| 24 | A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands . |
| 25 | She backed away , one hand raised to ward him off , stopping abruptly as she came up against the edge of the table . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | Later that month , the Archbishop of Tuam delivered a sermon in which he came out against the mining . |
| 28 | While recognizing that opinion was divided on the issue , the Council firmly came out against the re-introduction of any form of corporal punishment as a judicial penalty for any criminal offence . |
| 29 | ‘ There are people who are ‘ smokers and proud of it ’ who are coming up against the trend that the rest of society wants to see . ’ |
| 30 | At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State . |