Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has guarded fiercely against the band 's tapes being made public but listening to them years on , it is difficult to understand his uneasiness and it seems a loss to fans . |
| 2 | He concludes with a formal oath : ‘ I , the Lord , have spoken ; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me : in this wilderness they shall come to a full end , and there they shall die . ’ |
| 3 | The other hand , also in a clenched fist position , is tucked in against the opposite side of the body , with the thumb and fingers facing upwards . |
| 4 | Jenny found herself dragged uncomfortably over the gear-stick and hand-brake , her left cheek was pressed in against her teeth by the pressure of an ardent but misdirected kiss and she felt a button on her cardigan give with a violence which boded ill for Marks and Sparks cowering beneath . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it may be urged that self-help ought to be strictly limited even against a wrongdoer and forbidden altogether against one who is not a wrongdoer , except that retaking might be permitted in circumstances of inevitable accident or of necessity ( e.g . |
| 8 | Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris . |
| 9 | Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking . |
| 10 | Demonstrations against the military regime also took place on Oct. 5 , the first anniversary of the 1988 referendum in which the electorate had voted overwhelmingly against Pinochet 's continuation in office until 1998 [ see pp. 36344-45 ] . |
| 11 | Although the electorate had voted overwhelmingly against membership of the UN itself in a 1986 referendum [ see p. 34959 ] , Switzerland had since 1984 been a full participant in the General Arrangements to Borrow ( GAB ) established in 1962 , when the " Group of 10 " industrialized countries undertook to lend to the IMF . |
| 12 | Towards the tip of this tail there is a sharp spine with a serrated edge and this is slashed painfully against the offending foot or leg . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've come through against all predictions , winning five away games in a row . |
| 14 | The motion providing for the establishment of the UN Temporary Commission on Korea ( UNTCOK ) was carried easily against Soviet opposition on 14 November 1947 . |
| 15 | One night when the last streamers had shivered away against the dawn sky , leaving its heaven blue merely bland , she walked away from her colony and stood at the furthest tip of the ice sheet . |
| 16 | The semi-final was won deservedly against the Norwich Union , with the team playing well within themselves . |
| 17 | In the Fawlty Towers belt of Torquay , abandoned hotels have been boarded up against vandals . |
| 18 | What the bishops and the politicians had come up against in the Mother and Child controversy was that this paternalistic conceptualization was intrinsically at odds with the common understanding of democracy . |
| 19 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Although the Commissioners are committed not to be swayed by the national interests of their own countries , it is clear that Sir Leon Brittan , the Competition Commissioner , has come up against stiff opposition from his colleagues when he has investigated anti-competitive behaviour in some of their countries , most recently over his veto of the Franco-Italian takeover of De Havilland in October 1991 . |
| 21 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 22 | In both Nicaragua and Mozambique , the governments have come up against the question of choosing which language or languages to teach in . |
| 23 | And Pearce said : ‘ Villa are the strongest team I have ever come up against in League football . |
| 24 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 25 | I do n't think I 've ever come up against sexism , except from in the classroom when the teacher to , the economics teacher tries to wind us up by saying women would should be chained to the kitchen sink ! |
| 26 | Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court . |
| 27 | And erm anyway it was a wonderful place , wonderful relationship with the men and erm about the only odd thing about it I 've come up against a snag which I did n't think I 've had a ghost writer , I 've got publishers , and as I ca n't get er permission for all the photos that I want . |
| 28 | D Rae new machine working well , but he had come up against MS-Works limitations . |
| 29 | EFFORTS to improve atomic clocks have come up against an unexpected hurdle . |
| 30 | Of course , she had come up against death , or the prospect of it , many times in the course of her work , but somehow she had never acquired the sort of immunity against emotional involvement , that almost instinctive shutting off , as so many of her colleagues had seemed to do . |