Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eubank 's promoter Barry Hearn may have different ideas , and is thinking of trying to put Barkley on against Eubank in Britain . |
| 2 | The bungy jumping was filmed on video ; Ned went first and you can see him dangling upside down against a cliff , shouting ‘ hi mum ! ’ ; |
| 3 | and further , and this is not meant to be a joke , in my own experience , if they get time to think quietly and realistically , I believe a whole lot of decent Conservatives who used to think pragmatically , organically and with respect for local communities , would emerge to contribute to a coalition for the future over against the ideological block that seems to think we use people to make money , instead of making money to serve people and their communities . |
| 4 | Secondly , the zone of tension between the Soviet Union and the West allowed national liberation movements to play one side off against the other : on the one hand , fear of ‘ communism ’ induced some colonial powers to make political concessions , while on the other the Soviet Union often provided political support , arms and training to these movements . |
| 5 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 6 | He demanded , and got , only the best , invariably at a knockdown price after cleverly playing the manufacturers off against each other . |
| 7 | She held the sage green lace with its swirling skirt up against her . |
| 8 | He pulled his cowl up against the hot midday sun. ‘ shall we collect our horses ? ’ |
| 9 | But the Chancellor may be looking and hoping further ahead , to Friday 's US employment report and the possibility that a bit of a dollar rebound might haul the pound up against the mark . |
| 10 | By screwing her eyes up against the glare , she could just about make out what was going on in the refectory . |
| 11 | His head came down and his mouth fastened on hers , cutting off the supply of air to her lungs , forcing her lips back against her teeth . |
| 12 | Captain Simon Webster , who leads the side out against Portsmouth tomorrow , said : ‘ It 's up to us now . |
| 13 | ‘ Lie back , Julia , ’ he said at once , coming to push her shoulders back against the pillows . |
| 14 | Cator engaged to pay them £10,000 down against a bond for treble that amount , £30,000 , which the holder of the bond would be paid when ‘ a certain event ’ took place — the death of the king and the succession of any one of the three royal borrowers . |
| 15 | However , currency speculators flooded Israel 's capital market with foreign currency worth US$200,000,000 , driving the US dollar down against the shekel and causing what was called the " devaluation that never was " . |
| 16 | JEWKES : But she sits cooling herself in the hall over against the staircase . |
| 17 | You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other . |
| 18 | The child may gravitate to the parent that is easier to manipulate or try to play one parent off against the other . |
| 19 | Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ? |
| 20 | Daley , he believes , would have helped England beat France and then Taylor would n't have had to pull Gary Lineker off against Sweden . |
| 21 | But there was a lot of debris up against it , and high up against it ! |
| 22 | I mean , could one do the Tesco superstore , pick up the bedding begonias and the kids from their respective nurseries , shell peas for the boss 's wife and remove the rotary drier from its rotospike so as not to offend the neighbours who 've stuck a Sky dish up against your patio view , whilst obsessed by lust ? |
| 23 | The volatile Scot , currently on a month 's loan to Birmingham City after being transfer-listed by Southampton , lines up against Newcastle with an eye on a move back into the Premier League . |
| 24 | Thoughtfully moulded , futuristic and mindscaping , ‘ Vantool ’ is a bit of a headphone gem , the mild-mannered title track lines up against the gentle caressing ‘ Hub ’ and the mystical revelations of ‘ Rainbow Bridge ’ . |
| 25 | The company reckons that the new IPC lines up against an IBM Corp RS/6000 Model 220 at $10,000 and an HP 9000/710 at $14,065 — and is nearly $2,000 under a similarly equipped 486/33M PC from Compaq Computer Corp . |
| 26 | The highlight of the men 's events should also be the 50 metres , when North-East outdoor 100 metres champion David Lawson , of Cramlington , lines up against Morpeth Harrier Andrew Abrahams . |
| 27 | Corsie lines up against South African Bill Moseley . |
| 28 | Motorola is stacking the machine up against DG , HP , NCR Dell and IBM systems , saying that the cost of a fully configured system works out at from 10–55% cheaper than competitors . |
| 29 | They described it as Maiwa , " the wall at the side of the world , four moons " sail to the eastward … a land which stretches to the north and to the south without end … beyond the furthest eastward island it lies — a wall of mountains up against the sun " . |
| 30 | If a company pays a dividend during a ‘ dormant ’ period — ie when it is not within the charge to corporation tax — the Inland Revenue has been known to argue that the company will not be able to carry the ACT back against its prior tax liabilities . |