Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | This feeling that we must fight to preserve ourselves against a hostile world is paralleled by deep male fears of losing bodily integrity and idenity . |
| 2 | Others — and the majority , no doubt — would wait anxiously for any news as a French invasion force was massing ready to launch itself against English shores . |
| 3 | Only 35 per cent of the companies in the survey used credit insurance to secure themselves against bad debts . |
| 4 | He was inclined to feel giddy , too , and was obliged to support himself against the parapet in order to steady his troubled vision . |
| 5 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 6 | The type of sampling used in the five community studies is quotasampling , and our main concern is not to claim absolute representativeness for the whole city , but to guard ourselves against the accusation that our informants might be hand-picked from amongst friends and neighbours — or , worse , from our students . |
| 7 | There , I would be just as much a stranger , but they would have to define themselves against me as natives against incomers , or in terms of social classification . |
| 8 | He sees what is nowadays called , I think , ‘ inter-personal relations ’ as being largely predicated on the need for people to convince themselves that they have a wholeness and a separateness and an individuality and a defined self , and they do this by trying to define themselves against those other shifting , evanescent erm personalities that they call their friends , enemies , wives , children and so on . |
| 9 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 10 | The corpse seemed to brace itself against the tilt but that could not be , unless — |
| 11 | Chandrasekhar calculated that a cold star of more than about one and a half times the mass of the sun would not be able to support itself against its own gravity . |
| 12 | What a comment on our society , that we need to organise ourselves against vandalism and theft ! |
| 13 | But if there is any real doubt in marginal cases the officer 's need to cover himself against the possibility of criticism from above normally resolves the issue in favour of sampling . |
| 14 | Where it did not , how far did it allow him to assert himself against the trustee and the property he had acquired in place of the object under trust ? |
| 15 | The cabinet ministers , parliamentarians and civil servants in London knew it only from its press image and inability to assert itself against mounting agitation . |
| 16 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 17 | Her voice died away as she resisted the urge to cross herself against the lie . |
| 18 | Startled , she looked up into Dane 's sea-blue eyes , and even as she tried to strengthen herself against him she felt a rush of longing so intense that it made her weak at the knees . |
| 19 | In coastal areas social mobility led some lower castes and classes to assert themselves against headmen . |
| 20 | Although — most fortunately — not everybody who feels the need to assert themselves against rules becomes a mass-murderer , there is undoubtedly today a widespread feeling that all rules and regulations are onerous and provocative . |
| 21 | One reason doctors take temperatures is to cover themselves against negligence claims , although doctors ' legal defence bodies say there have been no such cases . |
| 22 | The pause , the question , had been a mere formality , the token request for permission men used to cover themselves against a variety of possible future accusations . |
| 23 | Increasingly , hotels and restaurants are imposing deposits , reservation fees or cancellation charges to cover themselves against the revenue lost through this loss of business . |
| 24 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
| 25 | I know I have to steel myself against not being freed . |
| 26 | He stopped again and we had to flatten ourselves against a wall as a Post Office van mounted the pavement to avoid an illegally parked British Telecom van . |
| 27 | But the fact that he had won a signal victory over the headmaster on Monday night made him reluctant to pit himself against him again so soon . |
| 28 | But he continued to insure himself against such social accidents as might reactivate his grief by avoiding the streets of Reine and its inhabitants . |
| 29 | She had imagined that the doctor would be male ; she had looked forward to it even , a chance to pit herself against him , to resist , to overcome ; but when she was finally ushered into the consulting room she was greeted by a woman younger than herself . |
| 30 | The Marcoses may have stashed away well over a billion dollars plus other Philippino assets , in the USA , Switzerland and elsewhere , but neither Nicolae nor Elena Ceauşescu felt under any compulsion to insure themselves against a rainy day . |