Example sentences of "[adv prt] against [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah right so the the direction the clouds are moving in against this frosted glass screen |
| 2 | There are then three possibilities : first , their edges may slide along against each other ; second , they may move away from each other — then fresh lava emerges from the crack which is formed between them ; third , they may move towards each other , one plate sliding under the other . |
| 3 | If you were to script this sequence , these are the size descriptions that you would write down against each of the shots . |
| 4 | But right-wing delegations , such as the AEU engineering union , came down against any ‘ segregated ’ affiliate . |
| 5 | For 15 years the basic state pension has been uprated in line with prices , not earnings ; as a result , the living standards of the poorest old people have been drifting down against those of people in work . |
| 6 | He can not be taken for granted as simply ‘ there ’ in our religious sense , our spiritual depth , or our moral awareness , for he transcends , he stands over against all of these . |
| 7 | ‘ Newman , ’ he persisted , ‘ you 're sure you 've got this right — about Bennington Machine Tools being taken over against this Archer 's wish by INCUBUS ? ’ |
| 8 | Gary was bolder than Hoomey , less graceful than Jazz , but showed the Nicholson family characteristics of dour determination to win through against all the odds . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've come through against all predictions , winning five away games in a row . |
| 10 | As in the lowlands , the traditional landscape has to some extent been preserved by the economic irrationality of farmers — although in the uplands it consists of their ability to hold on against all the odds rather than disavow the pursuit of maximum profits . |
| 11 | Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes play off against each other in a comedic buddy movie about two hustlers who team up to cream money off LA 's kerb-side courts , only to run up against problems with girls ( Rosie Perez , Tyra Ferrell ) and gangsters . |
| 12 | Many have thought it an objectionable feature of utilitarianism , in its classic formulations , that pleasure and pain are supposedly set off against each other in this simple way . |
| 13 | He demanded , and got , only the best , invariably at a knockdown price after cleverly playing the manufacturers off against each other . |
| 14 | Bakufu control over the country was never absolute , but rested on the administration 's ability to hold in check the ambitions of various provincial lords and play them off against each other . |
| 15 | charged off against each other 's . |
| 16 | Between demonstrates how a multiplicity of different discursive systems intertwine to form the substrata of an individual mind which plays them off against each other , combines them and uses them to generate the repertory of stories that determine how she ‘ reads ’ the world in which she lives . |
| 17 | Indeed , he frequently managed both to play the French and the Americans off against each other and then to blame them when anything went wrong . |
| 18 | Try to retain an auction style process , playing the potential purchasers ( real or imaginary ( very high risk ) ) off against each other . |
| 19 | Cos one office was playing the other office off against each other . |
| 20 | That war is still going on , Jamie is still wasting his life on a childhood hatred and Edward Swift is still playing them off against each other from beyond the grave . ’ |
| 21 | If it was clearly intended that the ex gratia sum should include an element to cover the basic award , it will be set off against that award , but not otherwise . |
| 22 | On the other hand , there 's — setting off against that — there 's also evidence that doctors are sometimes too reluctant to use medicines , often because they are n't familiar with them . |
| 23 | You can use these troops to close any gaps that appear in your line or face off against any flank attacks . |
| 24 | There is , in fact , no place for any distinctions , for anything that sets one thing off against any other thing : limits , forms , conventions , individuals . |
| 25 | In an action under the law of England and Wales or the law of Northern Ireland for damages for personal injuries ( including any such action arising out of a contract ) any saving to the injured person which is attributable to his maintenance wholly or partly at public expense in a hospital , nursing home or other institution shall be set off against any income lost by him as a result of his injuries . |
| 26 | This has the effect that the bank will be unable to combine that account or set it off against any amounts owed to the bank by the SFA member firm and , in the event of the insolvency of the SFA member firm , the funds in the account will not pass to the liquidator but will remain subject to the trust in favour of the clients contributing the money . |
| 27 | I said that someone in Montefiore 's position should check his facts before sounding off , and advised him to campaign for more resources all round instead of trying to trade one disadvantaged group off against another . |
| 28 | And since one partial theory can be played off against another in the same way that sentences can , we have eventually to hold , with Quine , that ‘ the unit of empirical significance is the whole of science ’ . |
| 29 | He also liked playing one person off against another , mischievously involving a young man with the girl-friend of a boy he himself fancied . |
| 30 | Spirited she was , in those days , and she played one boy off against another , teasing , bold , louche , at times wildly immodest , shocking , provoking , drooping a ciggy from her wide wicked lip , dropping her blouse from bare shoulders , playing cards for forfeits , egging them on to experiment with Ouija , inventing naughty messages from the spirit world : how had she known these things , what models had she copied from films she had never seen , what spirit spoke through her , informing her impatient flesh ? |