Example sentences of "[verb] against [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No appeal lies against decisions of the Supervisory Authority and its decisions may only be scrutinized in the ordinary course of justice if they relate to the suspension of quotation of securities at the stock exchange . |
| 2 | The public knowledge that such discussion was taking place was damaging enough for Mrs Thatcher ; it was accentuated by signs that there was an active campaign to line up alternative candidates to stand against Heseltine in the second ballot . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the Front populaire ivoirien ( FPI ) , now emerging as the strongest of the 26 parties which had been allowed to register since May , elected its general secretary , Laurent Gbagbo , to stand against Houphouët-Boigny in the presidential elections ; he was the first opposition presidential candidate since independence in 1960 . |
| 4 | A person can insure against death within a specified period , the policy paying nothing if the insured survives . |
| 5 | Croatia 's new right-wing government ( elected in April-May 1990 — see pp. 37381 ; 37463 ) had given assurances that individual and cultural rights were guaranteed to all people in the republic , However , for many Serbs the ascendancy of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) revived the fear of Croat nationalist extremism and the memory of atrocities committed against Serbs by the fascist Croat ustasha movement , which had governed Croatia as a puppet state of the Axis powers during the Second World War . |
| 6 | In early December the German Bundestag ( lower house of the German parliament ) voted to end formally the trade sanctions imposed against China after the 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |
| 7 | Charges of selfishness and even unjust charges of collaboration were sometimes made against members of the permanent staff . |
| 8 | But Kambli did beat the previous highest made against England by an Indian , Gundappa Vishwanath 's 222 in 1981-82 . |
| 9 | The annual report of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution has predicted a sharp rise in the number of prosecutions made against polluters over the next year . |
| 10 | A frisson of concern ran through the staff when it was discovered that items have only been routinely fumigated against pathogens since the 1950s . |
| 11 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 12 | In 1975 , this legislation was further strengthened by the Sex Discrimination Act , which made it unlawful to discriminate against women in a wide range of fields , including employment . |
| 13 | Gittens , who played against Sunderland in the 1990 Wembley play-off final , is thrilled at the prospect of first-team football at Ayresome Park . |
| 14 | ‘ I have to be involved with Scotland at every opportunity , ’ said Collins , who played against Malta in the last World Cup tie after stating he had been left out on occasions when he felt entitled to inclusion . |
| 15 | Although the Dons have to sell to survive in the Premier League , they have been alerted they could get £1m-rated Andersson — he scored against Germany in the European Championship semi-finals — for nothing . |
| 16 | After Dunfermline had failed to scored against Raith for the fourth time this season , manager Jocky Scott conceded the championship race to the Kirkcaldy side . |
| 17 | If that is not in practice a policy which is presuming against development in the open countryside I do n't know what is . |
| 18 | Old soldiers remember fallen comrades Alan Hutchison meets a dwindling band of Scots who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War |
| 19 | The odds are heavily stacked against Pears for the final game at Wolves on Saturday . |
| 20 | A 13-YEAR-OLD girl suffered two fractures to her pelvis , had a leg broken in two places and a broken ankle after being crushed against railings by a stolen bus . |
| 21 | The Nationalist offensive against Madrid deployed the same tactics that its africanista commanders were accustomed to using against tribesmen in the Moroccan Rif : a series of columns attacking simultaneously at different points along an extensive front . |
| 22 | NIGERIAN prince Andrew Harriman warmed up for next week 's Pilkington Cup rugby final repeat against Bath with a regal hat-trick of tries for Harlequins in a 64-6 win at Plymouth . |
| 23 | Many works that were situated against walls in the National Gallery are now shown in the round . |
| 24 | Some of us had been trying to make our voices heard against Saddam through the long years when he was hugger-mugger with every leader of the western world . |
| 25 | Excess relief may be used against CGT in the same tax year . |
| 26 | LLANELLI , the Schweppes Cup holders , have been drawn against Pontypridd in the first of the back-to-back semi-finals of the competition , to be played at the National Stadium on May 4 . |
| 27 | But given the discrimination shown against climbers in the present price structure , how long might it be before you climb at High Rocks by season ticket , or prior arrangement and private fee only ? |
| 28 | I just want to play against Ireland in the next match . |
| 29 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 30 | A frontier of skill had to be defended against dilution by the unskilled , including large numbers of women . |