Example sentences of "[not/n't] [noun sg] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Civil War , a Fourteenth Amendment was added binding state legislatures and courts in similar terms , so that protection against prior censorship was guaranteed , but not protection against proceedings for obscenity . |
| 2 | Invariably , this is ordinary paint and not protection against rotting . |
| 3 | Yet in their own terms they seem fairly content with their lives , and they do not rail against the fate that has left them with this role . |
| 4 | Sewed my lips with hexes so I should not blaspheme against their godling … |
| 5 | ( 3 ) The replies that you give are not evidence against you in any later criminal trial that may arise from this case . |
| 6 | So in so far as that affects the confession it may mean that it could be removed but that 's really completely irrelevant to you because erm that 's his confession , not evidence against him . |
| 7 | It may be very very relevant to what happens to but with regard to your client , this statement is not evidence against him because his confession is admissible only against the maker . |
| 8 | It was an appeal and he was not proof against it . |
| 9 | But the existence of a quiet pro-American majority in Britain , France and Germany is not proof against big changes in attitudes to America 's role in the world . |
| 10 | Even Jimmy 's early morning blues were not proof against that , and they eventually arrived back at base in a much better humour than when they took off . |
| 11 | Cellulose is not proof against attack and it was reckoned that a new car 's shine would be ruined in about two years . |
| 12 | And even good food was not proof against the malignance that hung in the air , in the rotting soil , in the ill-washed vessels from which they ate and drank . |
| 13 | Mrs Alderley was not proof against the desperation of her tone . |
| 14 | Even this is not proof against all errors . |
| 15 | But Noel , is n't exercise against resistance is supposed to have some special benefit is n't it ? |
| 16 | But she found she was n't proof against his sudden closeness , nor his smiling charm as his eyes tried yet again to seek out the curves of her body hidden so discreetly from his probing by her chosen armour . |