Example sentences of "[adv] against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For yacht holidays , please assess the descriptions below against the sailing experience of your party . |
| 2 | It should be remembered , however , that s459 is a remedy against other shareholders and controllers of the company concerned and not necessarily against a bidder unless he is or becomes a shareholder . |
| 3 | It is not that these writers were necessarily against the idea of a science of society , but they did argue that the idea and practice of social science is not as straightforward as positivism would have us believe . |
| 4 | Cranston leaned suddenly against the wall , wiping away the sweat now coursing down his face . |
| 5 | The Hilton Hotel towered indifferently against the Nairobi sky . |
| 6 | WHEN Mr Neil Kinnock addressed the German Social Democrats ' ( SPD ) conference in Berlin this week , he did so against a vast photographic backdrop of Europe seen from space , without a cloud in the sky . |
| 7 | Whoever made the protest did so against a state which proclaimed its non-existence , and against the state 's claim to lose citizens ' lives in a war whose existence was not officially announced within Libya . |
| 8 | That was also the political judgment of the terrorists , or they would not be so anxious to be interviewed by the media or so against the ban . |
| 9 | He asked why the parish council were so against the signs ‘ Do the parish have an official policy , because if they do , they should think again about the effect it has on the village . ’ |
| 10 | So against the narrow focus of the impact of enterprise unions within their own firms we need to consider how far their achievements are filtered down to small firms where formal labour representation is minimal . |
| 11 | Desperation and greed kept them going , so against the odds , they would achieve the prerequisite £4,000 or so worth of business a day , as well as somehow retaining much of their clientele , and in some mysterious way expanding it . |
| 12 | All the paperwork had been removed and burnt , but the caravan had been the working place of the squadron — the squadron headquarters in other words — and so against the CO 's most urgent requests and orders the airman turned the tractor round and raced back , grabbing " Jane " and her pants off the caravan wall , thrusting them into the arms of the CO and then retraced his steps in the direction of El Alamein . |
| 13 | That was why Guido was so against the romance between Jeff and Silvia . |
| 14 | ‘ Fasting can be resorted to only against a lover , not to extort rights but to reform him , is when a son fasts for a father who drinks … |
| 15 | By then it was clear that the relaxation of tensions between East and West had gone far beyond the détente of the 1970s , when the Atlantic alliance and Warsaw Pact had remained strong and tensions had been eased only against a background of continuing ideological competition between the two sides . |
| 16 | Two-dimensional patterns like those of Linnaeus , Cuvier or Swainson made sense only against a background of idealism ; by the 1850s they seemed to close doors to further enquiry rather than open them . |
| 17 | An exclusion clause in a contract of sale can provide a defence only to the seller and only against a claim by the person to whom he sold . |
| 18 | It 's hard to be one of the boys when the boys unite only against a common enemy and at the moment that is oneself . |
| 19 | Trusts depended on actions in personam ; action could be brought only against the trustee . |
| 20 | What may not recur is the opportunity open to the Library Association at that time to act decisively not only against the ban but to act firmly in support of professional integrity . |
| 21 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 22 | The perpetrators are held to be responsible for their actions and there is an emphasis on retribution , not only against the murderer or murderers , but also against the social workers who , it is claimed , failed the child . |
| 23 | The other purchases should be evaluated only against the background of our poverty . |
| 24 | In the next century it came to include offences not only against the church but also against society and the realm at large . |
| 25 | Archbishop Stratford had protested not only against the manner of his trial but also against royal abuses of the clergy . |
| 26 | The essential problem in an extreme version of the constructed-sentence approach occurs when the resulting sentences are tested only against the linguist 's introspection . |
| 27 | I am not against MY FATHER , only against THE LABOR MINISTER |
| 28 | The disgorgement of profits and compensatory remedies provided by subsections ( 3 ) to ( 7 ) are available only against the contravener . |
| 29 | But under sections 6 and 62 of the Act compensatory claims can be brought only against the contravener . |
| 30 | A compensatory , as opposed to a restitutionary , order can not be made under subsection ( 2 ) , but only under subsections ( 3 ) , ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) , and only against the contravener . |