Example sentences of "[verb] against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I give my usual answer : that it probably all happens as the bird is ‘ flying ’ at top speed underwater , and that the pressure of the water holds the fish already caught against the bird 's sharp mandibles while it snaps up another in a fraction of a second . |
| 2 | Caught against the muscular hardness of his chest , warm and alien through the fine silk of his shirt , a matter of inches only between the shadowy regions of hip and groin , the familiar disturbing responses were shimmering through her bloodstream . |
| 3 | Benedict imprisoned her closer , oblivious to her grubby hands caught against the pristine whiteness of his neckcloth . |
| 4 | Does not this place give the Prime Minister the chance to show whether he is really against the smears that have been organised against the Labour party , or is he getting others to do his dirty work for him ? |
| 5 | National Drinkwise Day was organised against the background of statistics that show alcohol consumption per head has more than doubled in Britain since the Second World War , with alcohol abuse on the increase among the young . |
| 6 | I had been selected in my second year at Eton , while I was still a Lower boy , to box against the Eton Mission from Hackney Wick in the East End of London . |
| 7 | I had been successful as a boxer at Eton and in my first term at Oxford I was selected to box against the Army . |
| 8 | It lies against a stone wall , shielded by birch and fur , overlooking a garden of remembrance , containing more memorials . |
| 9 | The action would not be an indirect method of enforcing the contract against the other contracting party because it lies against a third party and in tort . |
| 10 | Above The sow lies against the prop , while the piglet rests safely beneath . |
| 11 | Therefore , the narrow issue in this case is whether , as Mr. Page contends and the courts below have held , certiorari lies against the visitor to quash his decision as being erroneous in point of law notwithstanding that the question of law arises under the domestic law of the university which the visitor has ‘ exclusive ’ jurisdiction to decide . |
| 12 | Crow sat in its chair , telling loud lies against the Black Beast . |
| 13 | The action lies against the manufacturer of the product where he has been negligent . |
| 14 | The wind howls outside , and beats against the window panes . |
| 15 | Yet he feared they were like biting fish in a fine mesh net , if they swam forward they would never escape ; he saw them lifting their limbs with automatic motion , as crayfish with their lumbering claws knock against the basketwork of the pens in which they have been trapped . |
| 16 | Zambia , more astute than Tammuz gave hir credit for , knelt against the side of his chair : ‘ You reckon the cocktail will give you gut-ache , its taste is questionable , yet it looks beautiful , glowing there in the glass , smells divine , and the buzz it can give you is a temptation beyond endurance . |
| 17 | To a less immediately visible extent the institution of policing is also set up to control those who would publicly demonstrate against the state and its executive powers . |
| 18 | Why did n't Benjamin demonstrate against the Vietnam War instead of just Lying around in his parents ' swimming pool ? |
| 19 | As ambassador he tried , without overwhelming success , to convince radical Iranian students the at they should support rather than demonstrate against the Shah . |
| 20 | Thousands will demonstrate against the axing of jobs and ‘ vital ’ public services because of council cutbacks in London boroughs . |
| 21 | Outside the snow beat against the window-panes . |
| 22 | The rain beat against the peeling door and the uncurtained windows and dripped from the still bloody lambskin that swung spreadeagled from the washing line . |
| 23 | The exercise would tire him — that always helped : he would seek out Joanna once more and that , too , would do something to unlock this pain of want which would rise up in him from nowhere , and beat against the walls of his mind until he thought he would never be able to bear it . |
| 24 | It began to rain , a steady stream that blew in from the east and beat against the stony flanks of the western hills . |
| 25 | Outside the wind blustered and beat against the wooden shutters and the huge sign , swinging on its iron pole , creaked and groaned as if calling out across the darkened , rain-soaked meadows . |
| 26 | It did n't like it at first , and moved and beat against the sides of the plastic and the neck of the can while I held it and sweated , listening to the hum of the insects and the rustling of the grass , staring at Blyth as he lay there still and silent , his dark hair ruffled now and again by the breeze . |
| 27 | On the latter subject Chidley published his most famous tract , A Cry against a Crying Sinne ( 1652 , reprinted 1657 ) . |
| 28 | One of the great issues in the revolutionary struggle of the seventeenth century ( and in a sense it had gone on ever since and , indeed , even before Magna Carta in 1215 ) , culminating in the Bill of Rights 1689 , was as to the liability of the subject to be taxed by the Crown without his consent as expressed by his representatives in Parliament and it was an issue resolved against the Crown and in favour of the subject . |
| 29 | But , as I have indicated , the Crown case requires that there must be ambiguity and further requires that the ambiguity must be resolved against the ordinary meaning of the word and in favour of the neutral meaning preferred and required by the Crown 's argument . |
| 30 | If a doubt arises at this point , it must be resolved against the proferens. 3 . |