Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new outlook we have been outlining as coming to stand over against Christian orthodoxy was by no means necessarily irreligious or anti-religious . |
| 2 | Investors there would nevertheless be permitted to write off against tax 50 per cent of costs entailed in a one-year period , while employees there would have their tax allowances increased , and companies would not have to pay the same local property and capital taxes as in western Germany . |
| 3 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 4 | It must be impossible to stand up against it , he wrote , impossible to draw breath before it . |
| 5 | They forfeit the right to stand up against them . |
| 6 | Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 7 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |
| 8 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 9 | Other writers have emphasized the narrow social strata from which judges are drawn and have questioned the degree to which they are able to relate to ordinary people and to stand up against the powerful and the rich . |
| 10 | Furthermore , they were intimately acquainted with the Greek republics and Macedonian monarchies of their time , and realistically assessed their capacities to stand up against the Romans . |
| 11 | The women have become more feminist in their outlook and this has helped them to stand up against the men of the villages and take a firm stance in their lives . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that his earlier answer emphasised once again how essential and right it was for the Government to stand up against allowing homosexuality in the armed forces ? |
| 13 | The exercise of skills in the workforce as a mature returner has been a rewarding experience in so many ways but I never expected it to test my personal standards or challenge my courage to stand up against what I believe is wrong . |
| 14 | Only the A E U have the courage to stand up against big brother , the T U C , warning against denying the unemployed a glimmer of hope . |
| 15 | He was unfortunate to come up against West Indies , playing four fast bowlers for the first time , when he was still an inexperienced leader and the memory of Lillee and Thomson was still raw . |
| 16 | She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs , only to come up against a wall . |
| 17 | Since 1955 , when he was 12 years old and first picked up the bag , Dave has had plenty of chance to come up against those two impostors . |
| 18 | And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall ? |
| 19 | If you are shooting video in a zoo where animals are kept behind bars , you are likely to come up against situations which prove that auto-focus systems are not quite as clever as you are . |
| 20 | However , connections were unfortunate to come up against a fine-tuned Remittance Man last March and , although Katabatic ran a cracker , mounting a ferocious challenge up the final climb , he was held by a length at the line . |
| 21 | I love playing against them because you never know quite what you 're going to come up against ’ . |
| 22 | Quite how much longer opponents have to come up against Probyn 's unrelenting shoulders is unclear . |
| 23 | If you are planning to build your own conservatory , you are likely to come up against the new Pat N of the Building Regulations . |
| 24 | But sooner or later you 're going to come up against something unpleasant that you do n't really want to think about , and you 'll end up feeling outraged and impotent and guilty … |
| 25 | Nevertheless , Peachcake , if you marry this young man , you 're bound to come up against prejudice from time to time . |
| 26 | In Britain we are likely to come up against similar , if not identical , perverse incentives as the NHS reforms alter the way in which services are funded . |
| 27 | One of these days Sam is going to come up against a good old time proper door . |
| 28 | Is n't it a bit short sighted to th to plan to come up against what if you 're right would be a brick wall . |
| 29 | Our President has referred to many of the problems we currently face and will continue to come up against in the future . |
| 30 | Somewhere in there fire fighters learn to tackle some of the most dangerous situations they 'd ever be likely to come up against . |