Example sentences of "[verb] against [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proceedings were also dropped against 35 of the 90 Islamic fundamentalists previously charged with planning terrorist acts against the regime of former President Bourguiba in November 1987 . |
| 2 | Hundreds of crates of beer were stacked against three of the whitewashed walls but the fourth , and longest , wall was hidden behind rows of wooden racks lined with bottles of both local and imported wines . |
| 3 | Once an enveloping box is established or an old one changed ( by the addition or movement of entities ) the geometric domain model is checked against that of the functional domain . |
| 4 | That is a great improvement , and I hope very much that the Commission will soon understand that headage limits do not reduce overproduction but merely discriminate against some of the poorest parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | The marks of one day were shown against those of the next , and so on . |
| 6 | He drove more than 12,000 miles in competition on the track , and raced against 240 of the 596 drivers who had ever entered the event . |
| 7 | The chance to fish against some of the biggest names in match angling and beat them can be too hard to resist , and the rewards are high . |
| 8 | She said that she had ‘ accidentally brushed against one of the four girls who were standing on the pavement ’ , whereupon ‘ all four caught hold of her , and beat her in a most savage manner , using fearful language ’ and left her on the pound bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth . |
| 9 | Bids were invited against each of the above themes in March and in October 1990 . |
| 10 | In order to compete against some of the global competitors , they need to make sure that the various businesses build upon each other , contribute to the development of core competences and use these core competences to build their competitive advantage . |
| 11 | ‘ For such a young player this is a tremendous achievement , ’ says Mavis , ‘ Claire has outstanding talent and she will now have a chance to compete against some of the best players in the world . ’ |
| 12 | Cleary , a left-wing populist who had formerly been an ALP supporter , campaigned against both of the major parties on the grounds that both were too committed to free-market policies . |
| 13 | Slobodan Milosevic , the Serbian President and a former leader of the Serbian communists , was elected president of the new party on July 17 , receiving 1,299 of the votes cast against 66 for the other candidate , the Socialist Alliance leader Radmila Andeljkova . |
| 14 | He whipped off the rag which the wind caught and blew against one of the spiked heads . |
| 15 | David Lyles says they ’ ll be able to train in good pools and compete against some of the best swimmers in the world … they 'll be racing the top youngsters from America and Canada |
| 16 | Guido flicked his gaze over her as he leaned against one of the geranium-filled stone urns . |
| 17 | In March 1952 Soviet statesmen suggested a unification of Germany in exchange for its non-participation in coalitions or alliances directed against any of the former wartime allies and in 1954 Molotov more clearly presented the idea of neutralising Germany . |
| 18 | A white plastic bag containing two loaves of bread was huddled against one of the last dock posts and she was relieved to see it , something belonging to today , to the living . |
| 19 | The shape matrices are then tested against those of the appropriate sub-dictionaries to find the best match , either between the unknown word and a dictionary entry , or a composite for suffixed forms . |
| 20 | She was leaning against one of the scarred pillars , her whole body shaking with sobs . |
| 21 | And more generally : Finally , in commenting on the nature of the social work procedures and practice adopted following the medical diagnosis of sexual abuse , the report explicitly comments that : ‘ it requires cautious measured intervention which will allow the risks of a false positive finding to be balanced against those of a false negative ’ ( p.85 , my emphasis ) . |