Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would like to spend one year here , continue my studies and test myself against the best British players . ’ |
| 2 | During his voyage from India , Chandrasekhar worked out how big a star could be and still support itself against its own gravity after it had used up all its fuel . |
| 3 | Make sure you have arranged mortgage Protection Cover and , if possible , insure yourself against sickness , redundancy or accident . |
| 4 | In the debate that followed , right-wing think-tanks pressed for radical changes : from introducing a requirement that people insure themselves against health bills and the state should merely help poor individuals , through tax relief to encourage private insurance , to the introduction of competition into the health market ( Letwin and Redwood , 1988 ; Pirie and Butler , 1988 ; Willetts and Goldsmith , 1988 ; Robinson , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I can visualize you three duelling many times till you inoculate yourselves against any trace of enmity . ’ |
| 6 | Cartoon characters chased each other across the screen , glamorous women won the hearts of kings , innocent settlers set themselves against ruthless cattle-ranchers , war heroes plotted and schemed and died for their beloved country . |
| 7 | Naturally , the trade associations involved — and , we have no doubt , the very great bulk of their members firmly set themselves against this type of lending . |
| 8 | The three Established Church representatives set themselves against ; the other four who were Free Churchmen were for it . |
| 9 | Bats , that wrap themselves against the light , |
| 10 | Rock'n'roll was originally a revolt against straitlaced stuffy mores ( encountered in the family , at school , in the small town ) , but now it 's ‘ brainwashing media images and fantasies ’ , the very institution of pop itself , that we define ourselves against , Indiepop is fast becoming nothing but commentary on pop — The Membranes ' ‘ Death To Trad Rock ’ , Sonic/Ciccone Youth 's obsession with Madonna , Age of Chance 's ‘ Kiss ’ , Oblivion is forestalled because we are constantly made conscious that this is a reaction against . |
| 11 | With free arms we could move more and brace ourselves against the bumps on the road . |
| 12 | It may want to mouth , not bite , the person 's hand ; or rest its chin on their shoulder ; or brush itself against the person in the same manner as the foal . |
| 13 | The plan and appearance of houses , the way they are furnished , mirror the social values of their time ; but the best define themselves against those values , inheriting the past , receiving the present , but shaping the future . |
| 14 | To disobey one 's father in traditional China would violate the filial piety integral to the whole system of mores and be seen as a threat by all ; on the other hand when the young of such a society begin to question the code and assert themselves against the old , they see a disobedience as a blow struck for all of them . |
| 15 | But survivalism also demands that you conquer inner threats or weaknesses , harden yourself against feeling and femininity — NWA , for example , see all women as harpies and exploiters , and prefer sadistic/anal/oral sex to anything more involving . |
| 16 | Men harden themselves against outer threats and against inner weaknesses , against the femininity that lurks in us . |
| 17 | You can see them beginning so far out … you see them lowly grow as they come nearer and nearer to the shore , rise and then thrash themselves against the beach . |
| 18 | In the event that for whatever reason it has not proved possible to settle a claim either extrajudicially or by Tender well before the Proof , the defender should in any case in which he approaches Proof without wishing to contest on the merits , protect himself against the expenses thereof by Tender . |
| 19 | Y Ltd. has got to be allowed to sell the goods ; otherwise Y Ltd. may never be able to pay X. How can X protect himself against the possibility that Y Ltd. , having sold the goods , might then go into liquidation before paying X ? |
| 20 | Doctors protect themselves against even the remote possibility of failing to spot a disease and being sued for it by sending their patients for every test in the book . |
| 21 | Rapid flying can soon lead to heat loss by convection , and at night nocturnal insects like moths protect themselves against heat loss with hairs on their thorax which maintain a stable air layer around the body surface . |
| 22 | They are compelled to do this because most of the forest trees protect themselves against molesters with a poisonous sap . |
| 23 | Some animals protect themselves against being eaten by containing poisonous or sickening substances . |
| 24 | PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST SKIN CANCER . |
| 25 | When you protect yourself against German Measles , you 're protecting your unborn children . |
| 26 | You can , up to a point ( and we did up to that point ) , protect yourself against them with jungle gels and mustard gases , but the trees give no mercy and there are hours of them between Staddajakkstugorna , a mountain hut on the side of Kapasluoppal , and Staloluokta . |
| 27 | When you protect yourself against German Measles , you 're protecting your unborn child . |
| 28 | • Guard yourself against premature ageing of the skin by eating plenty of vitamin A rich fruits such as apricots , nectarines and canteloupe melon . |
| 29 | The branches of trees stretched out as if to peer over mill walls or rest themselves against the windowless rear walls of factory buildings . |
| 30 | spend itself against the water ; then sink . |