Example sentences of "[adv prt] against [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gauntlet thus thrown down against ideas and assumptions so widely current in the Christianity and theology of his own day was Kierkegaard 's great contribution . |
| 2 | For sociological grouping of religions has encouraged an attitude of defining each over against others . |
| 3 | COSTS — legal aid — set off against damages . |
| 4 | in such circumstances it would be appropriate to have the words ‘ save by way of set off against damages and/or costs ’ added to the order and our counsel should be advised accordingly . |
| 5 | Companies in future will be able to write off against taxes only the first $1 million of what they pay any director or executive . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never been more depressed than the time I was sent off against Hibs . |
| 7 | Abstract 3's intention was for companies to include , in their calculation of a gain or loss on disposal of a business , any goodwill previously written off against reserves . |
| 8 | Enterprise Computer Holdings , for instance , in its p&l account to 31 March 1992 , includes ‘ purchased goodwill previously written off against reserves ’ , cancelled out a few lines later by an equal and opposite amount under ‘ reinstatement of goodwill written off above ’ . |
| 9 | In no circumstances , the report stresses , should any part of goodwill be written off against reserves . |
| 10 | The goodwill arising from these transactions shall be written off against reserves prior to completion . |
| 11 | For both discretionary and non-discretionary trusts , trust management expenses will be treated as set off against dividends in priority to other income . |
| 12 | Thérèse and Léonie stood crushed up against adults they did not know . |
| 13 | Whichever way the conversation turned , Theodora reflected , it seemed Miss Dersingham was determined to bring them up against topics which could not be elaborated on . |
| 14 | ‘ The problem , ’ said , senior partner with Dorman Jeffrey , ‘ is that estimating is an art , not a science , and you can still come up against obstacles from the other side and other unforeseen circumstances outwith your control . |
| 15 | The principle here is that if particular changes in activity bear a constant relationship to the reference event they will show up against fluctuations of the ongoing EEG which , being " random " , should cancel out to zero when averaged over successive trials by the computer . |
| 16 | Arsenal will go top of the League for the first time since May '91 today if they beat Coventry and Blackburn slip up against Spurs at Ewood Park . |
| 17 | In the Fawlty Towers belt of Torquay , abandoned hotels have been boarded up against vandals . |
| 18 | It is believed Sun and USL , which reportedly realise the potential hiccups with WABI , may try an advanced game of one-upmanship with Microsoft , putting AT&T 's patent portfolio containing such things as Backing Store in the balance up against Windows . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd rather be up against androids ? ’ |
| 20 | However , starting from civil society has the virtue of starting from how people do lead their lives and brings us up against questions about how social changes have transformed the range of possibilities available to them . |
| 21 | William was propped up against pillows as Carrie and Fred walked up to his bed . |
| 22 | In a man 's world you were forever running up against things . |
| 23 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
| 24 | The biographer may come up against problems of concealment , both written records and works having been destroyed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What they tend not to tell you is how well a given PC stacks up against others … |
| 27 | We have also explored the left-inclined critique of responsible party government and pluralism , so highlighting the extent to which theory is up against theory as much as any theory is assessed up against facts . |
| 28 | In private Michael still had to keep his end up against attacks , that to be religious was to be a fool , though less frequently now because Frank travelled abroad and was away much of the time . |
| 29 | Loyalist sources have told Sunday Life that attacks will be stepped up against republicans . |
| 30 | For just an instant she seemed to see right into his eyes , past the protective barrier that he instinctively put up against intruders . |