Example sentences of "out against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 2 | After a while , Jay could no longer pick her out against the distant sand , and she lay on the bed , under a sheet , downed the last of her drink , and slept . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely , then , Kenneth , this great grudge of theirs will bring them out against the enlistment ? ’ |
| 4 | The Archbishop of Canterbury , a graduate of the John Wayne memorial diplomatic academy , spoke out against the emergence in Britain of a ‘ Pharisee ’ society of self-interest and intolerance . |
| 5 | He then spoke out against the legislation , from the backbenches , when it was introduced in the Commons . |
| 6 | The root of the East German church 's involvement lies in the agonising sense of guilt and self-accusation among many clergy during and after the Second World War for not having spoken out against the Nazis in time . |
| 7 | The wounded were being laid out against the wall of the barn . |
| 8 | What is worse is that the caravans are painted white so that they stand out against the green landscape . |
| 9 | Only Rugby Union holds out against the commercial tide despite widespread speculation about covert payments to players . |
| 10 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 11 | This has added insult to injury of a privatisation carried out against the wishes of the public . |
| 12 | Cecilia eventually hit out against the home 's petty rules and forced the social workers to come up with an alternative . |
| 13 | The computer model at Britain 's Meteorological Office predicts that the fires ' effect on this year 's monsoon will probably not stand out against the monsoon 's annual variations . |
| 14 | Down on the beach , the Big Wheel was still going round , its elegant shape picked out against the blackness of sea and sky by coloured lights , fixed at intervals , along its slender struts . |
| 15 | Some leaders spoke out against the new trend ; in a paper on preaching delivered at a Free Church Council meeting the quixotic Joseph Parker defended congregational applause during a sermon because it encouraged the preacher and allowed the Holy Spirit to work through the listeners . |
| 16 | Masaryk was an eminent liberal scholar who stood out against the Catholic-led anti-semitic hysteria of the 1890s . |
| 17 | The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny . |
| 18 | In short , things had gone much as they do when the counties canter out against the varsities these days . |
| 19 | Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC . |
| 20 | The Irish colony of Knokvergence at Cable Street stood out against the newer buildings of Pennington . |
| 21 | This is particularly the case when as here , they are preserved in dark shales , the white calcite of the animal 's skeleton standing out against the background . |
| 22 | He hit the sea in a shallow dive , swimming out against the wind . |
| 23 | The opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell pressed the point and eventually , on 14 May , Eden was forced to admit that an underwater spying operation had been carried out against the Russian ships by Crabb but that it had been done without official approval . |
| 24 | This was the first time that a criminal prosecution had been taken out against the British nuclear industry . |
| 25 | He had already stood out against the Board 's obstinacy by forcing out their version of the comparative costs between nuclear- and coal-powered electricity ( see Chapter Six ) . |
| 26 | This was a surprising development ; Derry had a relatively weak Labour movement and had too small a population to create a sizeable pool of individuals who were prepared to stand out against the political and social attitudes of the majority . |
| 27 | And his mother promised him so to do ; and then he departed from them and went out against the frontier of the Moors . |
| 28 | We will go out against the Moors and give them battle , and God who hath thus far shown favour unto us will still continue to be our helper . |
| 29 | They can hardly design a Mulberry harbour and tented village for Iona which has held out against the ravages of the Atlantic , the Viking , the climate , and the disinterest of the Scot in his religious heritage . |
| 30 | Several old barges , beached deliberately years before in an attempt to slow down the river bank erosion , stood out against the moonlit water like defiant skeletons . |