Example sentences of "on [verb] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted his son to be a champion , and he did everything he could to force him to go on racing against his better judgement ! ’ |
| 2 | Anne Cains , a member of Stockton area International Training in Communication has won her heat in the organisation 's national speech competition , and now goes on to compete against five other clubs in the North-East in the regional heats . |
| 3 | He went on to argue against sending alien rabbis ( chiefly eager volunteers from the newly-formed Council of Orthodox Rabbis from Germany , Austria and Czechoslovakia ) around the country when they would need police permits every time they entered a protected area . |
| 4 | His first memorandum began by indicting the government 's supposedly annexationist motives for going to war and went on to inveigh against the economic and cultural backwardness which the conflict had brought to light . |
| 5 | However , he went on to warn against complacency , as although most large companies are conscious of their health and safety responsibilities , an increase in the number of small companies and contractors may cause a corresponding increase in accident figures . |
| 6 | It went on to warn against any general attack on fiscal incentives ( or , as ICAS says the report negatively and unhelpfully refers to them , ‘ fiscal degradation ’ ) : there is no level playing field in the EC and so less successful economies have to offer incentives to compete , ICAS said , and any attempt to eliminate them would only lead to governments using non-tax ones which will be harder for others to identify . |
| 7 | The convener went on to warn against funding schools on the basis of their pupil numbers . |