Example sentences of "[adv] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For yacht holidays , please assess the descriptions below against the sailing experience of your party . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cranston leaned suddenly against the wall , wiping away the sweat now coursing down his face . |
| 4 | The Hilton Hotel towered indifferently against the Nairobi sky . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That was why Guido was so against the romance between Jeff and Silvia . |
| 11 | Trusts depended on actions in personam ; action could be brought only against the trustee . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The other purchases should be evaluated only against the background of our poverty . |
| 16 | In the next century it came to include offences not only against the church but also against society and the realm at large . |
| 17 | Archbishop Stratford had protested not only against the manner of his trial but also against royal abuses of the clergy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I am not against MY FATHER , only against THE LABOR MINISTER |
| 20 | The disgorgement of profits and compensatory remedies provided by subsections ( 3 ) to ( 7 ) are available only against the contravener . |
| 21 | But under sections 6 and 62 of the Act compensatory claims can be brought only against the contravener . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Adler v. George shows that statutes may be read not only against the background of notions of justice and settled legal principle ( which tend to limit their operation ) but also against the background of notions of ordinary common sense ( which may extend their operation ) . |
| 24 | And they were reacting not only against the art of the past fifty years but also against the techniques and traditions of vision that had shaped Western painting since the scientific discoveries of the early Renaissance . |
| 25 | But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt . |
| 26 | Thus an exclusion clause in a contract is a defence available only to a contracted party and only against the other contracted party , Scruttons v. Midland Silicones ( 1962 H.L. ) . |
| 27 | What worries me at the moment about the proposals is that there is discrimination not only against the United Kingdom but against Europe in the way in which the Commission is carrying out the negotiations with the United States . |
| 28 | It may be very very relevant to what happens to but with regard to your client , this statement is not evidence against him because his confession is admissible only against the maker . |
| 29 | That agreement made it clear that the defendant was employed as a milkman and that the intention of the clause was to afford the employer protection only against the activities of an employee who worked as a milkman once his employment ended . |
| 30 | People were dancing everywhere , some in costume , some wrapped warmly against the cold . |