Example sentences of "[to-vb] it against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such indemnities , transferring liabilities incurred to third parties , will be particularly useful in cases where a contracting party may incur liability to a person not party to the contract , which therefore can not be excluded by contract : for instance , a manufacturer might require a distributor or retailer to indemnify it against tortious product liability claims by consumers injured by the product . |
| 2 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 3 | It was an unsecured loan … now they want him to secure it against the house . |
| 4 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |
| 5 | It is always necessary to set it against a more general background or to establish the conventions and limitations adopted by the makers of these small and almost two-dimensional objects . |
| 6 | To call it a remarkable sight is to set it against today 's standards . |
| 7 | ‘ If it is no trouble , Mr Wood , to set it against my account … |
| 8 | I am returning your invoice because I do not have an order form to set it against . |
| 9 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 10 | An in-depth review of 6,000 of the group 's 11,000 free-trade loans found that on top of £10m to be provided against beer profits , a further £37m was needed to cover it against potential problems on 2,000 accounts . |
| 11 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 12 | This scale , which can be looked upon either as mode 4 of a major scale ( eg. G major starting from C , or a C major scale with a ♯4th ) , or the major scale that is found a 5th higher than the root of the chord that you want to play it against . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to fight for the world title and to do it against a fellow Brit would be just great . |
| 14 | As a courtier , he saw all issues in the light cast by the shifting world of court favour : thus Godoy 's support of the French alliance was consistently conditioned by his desire to use it against his enemies at court or his hopes of a safe retreat from these enemies in a Portuguese principality bestowed on him by France . |
| 15 | My only hope is that we shall never have to use it against the Seven . ’ |
| 16 | I have the advantage , Meredith , and I intend to use it against you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But for them to use it against our own people ! ’ |
| 18 | Marc would lap up the opportunity to use it against her . |
| 19 | Its curly conker-red coat is thick enough to protect it against the cold and wet but becomes smooth and sleek in warmer weather . |
| 20 | A unit of traditional authority survived indeed in the Church ; but that rather favoured the independent cities , for with few exceptions each had its own cathedral and its own bishop ; often its own patron saint to protect it against its neighbours . |
| 21 | Most lenders of money , e.g. banks and building societies , insist that a home owner takes out an insurance for the worth of the building , to protect it against being accidentally destroyed . |
| 22 | Keeping in moisture to protect it against all manner of evils . |
| 23 | Local militia had to protect it against enthusiastic souvenir hunters . |
| 24 | The hairs are long to protect it against the bitter alpine nights . |
| 25 | The mammoth had a shaggy coat to protect it against the rigours of the ice ages . |
| 26 | Flooring : Pastelle 100 per cent nylon carpet from the Shades of White range is treated with Stainmaster finish to protect it against spills and stains . |
| 27 | Having acquired the eastern coast of the Black Sea from the Turks , they found that forts were insufficient to protect it against raids from the interior . |
| 28 | It was held that the hotel could not rely on the notice to protect it against liability . |
| 29 | It was held that the company could not rely on the clause to protect it against liability when the dress was stained during the cleaning process . |
| 30 | Now I also said that the states which make up the United States were , for a brief period , independent entities themselves in the gap between the ending of revolutionary war and the framing of the constitution and so when their representatives assembled in Philadelphia in the summer of seventeen eighty seven , they were mindful of their independence and they were jealous of that independence , they wished to protect it against encroachment , they did n't wish to exchange one form of dominance for another . |