Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | MP for 20 years , when he successfully fought against the closure of Shildon wagon works . |
| 2 | Subsequently A finds the original certificate and , either because he has forgotten about the sale to B or because he is a rogue , then purports to sell the shares to C. The company will rightly refuse to register C whose only remedy will be against A ( who may by this time be a man-of-straw ) unless he can successfully invoke against the company the so-called doctrine of estoppel by share certificate . |
| 3 | ‘ The play specifies long-drawn-out public torture for many animals , especially those the playwright deems most to offend against the Conventional Rules of Duty . |
| 4 | So far their almost daily antics have included a variety of canny offensives — successfully protecting against unsympathetic judges in rape trials , filling the White House garden with tennis balls covered in facts and figures of women 's oppression plus the odd rude rad fem slogan , and sending Jane Fonda 's husband , TV mogul Ted Turner , a ‘ We Are Watching ’ letter about his refusal to show pro-choice ads on his channel ( although it shows all the antiabortion propaganda ) . |
| 5 | An innovative solution to protect key facilities within the Channel Tunnel was developed and successfully installed against tight deadlines , resulting in further orders for 1993 . |
| 6 | The 1971 Act also effectively discriminated against black workers by the introduction of the concept of ‘ patrials ’ , which was intended to distinguish persons with close ties to Britain from those without and give them the right to reside in Britain . |
| 7 | For example , the constraints of women 's lifestyles and their domestic and family responsibilities often mean that they are effectively discriminated against in terms of availability for election and service . |
| 8 | Disabled people are widely discriminated against in most types of employment including the health and caring professions . |
| 9 | In Kirby-in-Ashfield the Council successfully petitioned against the establishment of a Sunday postal collection . |
| 10 | ( Following the first election , however , he was successfully petitioned against and had to withdraw , but he survived the petition that followed the second . ) |
| 11 | Nevertheless , some research-orientated academics feel strongly enough to go against the grain and form a sort of elitist under ground for their best students . |
| 12 | A carnivorous looking transvestite teeters past on don't-f—with-me-heels and Ian from EMF , breathing deeply , his eyes closed , a long , sensitive index finger gently pressed against the bridge of his nose , says : ‘ This album 's about … about … it 's about spirituality , it 's about finding your identity … |
| 13 | Each time Adam gently pressed against a vertebra , Miranda was pushed against his body . |
| 14 | Church and state , religion , law , prejudice , custom , tradition , greed , lust , hatred , injustice , selfishness , ignorance , and arrogance have all conspired against her under the sexual rule of the human male . |
| 15 | Now er let's just accept that as a fact as we go by erm it looks as if mothers not only discriminate against un un unfit offspring , but also against males . |
| 16 | Undoubtedly , there must be outboard-motor-free boats on Moorea , but I could not find any which were nicely placed against an unspoiled backdrop of palms , beach and sky . |
| 17 | We should refuse to be ‘ good sports ’ and to ‘ play the game ’ when the deck is so stacked against us by a baroque system of government so ludicrous and infantile as to beggar description . |
| 18 | In both features she is also seen to embody a wider set of assumptions about Mexico itself ; exotic , passionate , yet constantly struggling against pain and deceit . |
| 19 | For though there is a danger that a broad curriculum may be superficial , containing nothing but a passing acquaintance with a variety of different subjects , and though this danger must be constantly guarded against , the purpose of the generalized , ‘ disinterested ’ curriculum is quite different . |
| 20 | It was not accidental that the report of the committee later included the remark , ‘ It is difficult to see what private or public purpose is served by the exaction of untrue confessions , and it is a danger to be constantly guarded against . ’ |
| 21 | Was it because , as the SNP believes , the Scottish media is basically biased against it ? |
| 22 | That is a great improvement , and I hope very much that the Commission will soon understand that headage limits do not reduce overproduction but merely discriminate against some of the poorest parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | They walked to their aircraft , which stood gently shuddering against their chocks , the engines droning in unison . |
| 24 | The message added : ‘ The district council has taken legal advice from senior counsel who have confirmed that the district council did have a case which it could competently pursue against the local paper . |
| 25 | Mr Winchester is impressively knowledgeable about all manner of things , from the tectonic plates that inexorably grind against each other beneath the Pacific 's waves to the steamer duck paddling furiously away in Patagonia ( although sloppy editing has the duck paddling at 20 knots on one page and a more believable 12 on another ) . |
| 26 | The sound quality varies throughout the recital , so that the somewhat dry acoustic in Schulz-Evler 's ‘ Blue Danube Paraphrase ’ , ( sensationally performed by Chiu ) sounds somewhat mis-matched against the bloom of the Busoni pieces , and the Liszt lieder transcriptions are perhaps a notch too dry . |
| 27 | Crow sat in its chair , telling loud lies against the Black Beast . |
| 28 | Hounslow then began to play like a team that were third in the table , forcing United 's mid-field backwards , only to come against Shepherd and Wilson in the centre of United 's defence , neither of whom put a foot wrong all afternoon . |
| 29 | No finer example of this can be seen than Castle Acre Priory , 1935 , in which the gaunt power of the medieval ruins is starkly silhouetted against the sky , and he permits himself a rare range of tonal contrast . |
| 30 | She was a large , cheerful lady with bad varicose ulcers which she was constantly banging against the furniture in her house on non-Varicose Vein Clinic days . |