Example sentences of "have come [adv prt] against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The governing body of English basketball has come out against a top woman player who wants to compete with men . |
| 3 | And erm anyway it was a wonderful place , wonderful relationship with the men and erm about the only odd thing about it I 've come up against a snag which I did n't think I 've had a ghost writer , I 've got publishers , and as I ca n't get er permission for all the photos that I want . |
| 4 | By then other intellectuals had come out against the radicals . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I wonder if they have come up against a rapacity of the of the rates . |
| 7 | In both Nicaragua and Mozambique , the governments have come up against the question of choosing which language or languages to teach in . |
| 8 | EFFORTS to improve atomic clocks have come up against an unexpected hurdle . |
| 9 | But Machynlleth councillors have come out against the Trust 's plans to close the district hospital and have vowed to campaign to save it . |
| 10 | RESIDENTS in the area where a new superstore is planned have come out against the proposals . |