Example sentences of "against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 2 | One of the more commonly heard complaints against the existing management structure from top athletes is that its detachment from the road race scene leaves management ill-equipped to make selection decisions for road races in major internationals . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 4 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 5 | and therefore any further development on that site would be seen against the existing backdrop of . |
| 6 | Well organised and technically proficient armed services can be used as a backstop to ensure that there is no internal unrest against the existing order of things . |
| 7 | Other apparent beneficiaries of a protest vote against the existing system were the Republican Party , the Green Party and the Sicily-based La Rete ( the Network ) , which on an anti-Mafia platform became the leading party in Palermo , Sicily . |
| 8 | It was then a forcing ground for the new classes establishing themselves and exerting their power against the existing feudal order . |
| 9 | England were perhaps flattered by the scoreline against the Scots but did well in the second half to get the game moving in the direction that they wanted . |
| 10 | Among these last was Archbishop Reynolds who had at first excommunicated the invaders by pressing into service a ten-year-old denunciation against the Scots ! |
| 11 | Roxburgh knows that the Italians are favourites to win his group and that the odds are stacked heavily against the Scots qualifying for a sixth successive appearance in the World Cup finals . |
| 12 | Among them was a small cuddly bunny wrapped in a plastic bag against the overnight rain . |
| 13 | Owned and run by the Wieser family , this truly traditional Tyrolean gasthof stands right in the centre of the village , against the impressive backdrop of the Wilder Kaiser mountains . |
| 14 | Proceeds went to a campaign against the annual slaughter of 900 million migrating birds around the Mediterranean . |
| 15 | … viewed against the annual saving of 1,500 lives and efforts in Force 8+ gales the figures quoted seem minute . |
| 16 | At this time of year we receive many such representations , but they must be weighed against the annual death toll of 110,000 people which is associated with smoking . |
| 17 | His first fast unto death occurred in 1918 , in support of the Ahmedabad textile workers ' strike , and was employed against the mill-owning family , who were devoted to him . |
| 18 | Indeed , the suffragette movement and its link to fascism represented one kind of genteel revolt by spirited upper-middle-class women against the stultifying effects of the Victorian ethic of limiting the role of respectable ladies to ornaments in the social round . |
| 19 | The hospice in Cricklewood was of recent design and construction ; from the road it resembled a clutch of igloos against the sheenless tundra of the sky . |
| 20 | Ignoring her protests , Marc pulled her hips hard against him , moulding her beneath the palms of his hands and forcing her against the silk-covered wall of the corridor . |
| 21 | Demonstrators picketing the Romanian embassy in East Berlin urged the people of other East European capitals to hold simultaneous rallies on Saturday afternoon ‘ against the bloody terror of the corrupt Romanian dictator ’ . |
| 22 | To be accepted they are forced to develop if not actual defences , then masks against the external world . |
| 23 | Crimes against the elderly , especially violent crimes are quite rare . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley said , in 1991 : ‘ I do n't frankly think that abuse against the elderly is a major problem . ’ |
| 25 | Other forms of prejudice also appear important , on grounds of race , against the elderly and often against people with HIV infection or Aids . |
| 26 | ‘ The increase in assaults against the elderly nationally should be a source of concern to any responsible government . |
| 27 | Unaware of his presence , she was sitting on the soft springy turf , leaning back against the ancient wall of the summer-house and gazing dreamily across the blue haze of the estuary . |
| 28 | The then modish humanity had gone into a violent reaction against the ancient severity , ‘ and might almost be supposed to see in the fact of having lost or squandered other people 's property a peculiar title to indulgence . ‘ |
| 29 | Rory got up out of the creaking wooden seat and walked unsteadily over to where Fergus lay on the bare wooden floorboards , head against the ancient , burst couch . |
| 30 | Thus practically every boring seems to vindicate the subsidence theory and to provide evidence against the Glacial Control theory . |