Example sentences of "[verb] against [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person can insure against death within a specified period , the policy paying nothing if the insured survives . |
| 2 | If that is not in practice a policy which is presuming against development in the open countryside I do n't know what is . |
| 3 | Old soldiers remember fallen comrades Alan Hutchison meets a dwindling band of Scots who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War |
| 4 | A frontier of skill had to be defended against dilution by the unskilled , including large numbers of women . |
| 5 | These become even stronger when combined and set against clothing from an opposing standpoint . |
| 6 | The regional bias of the system , too , worked against coordination in the early days . |
| 7 | He warned against overdependence on a single player who might be difficult to replace , and was thus well aware of how hard it would be when Alex James retired . |
| 8 | It is to protect the insured against liability for the accidental death or injury to someone other than his employee . |
| 9 | The National Labour Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald , had campaigned against conscription in the First World War . |
| 10 | Mrs Sullen is a young gentlewoman , living in the country much against her will , and chafing against marriage to a drunken brute . |
| 11 | Typically , the National Front would announce an intention to meet in or march through a racially sensitive area , and the Socialist Workers Party would then declare their determination to demonstrate against fascism at the same time . |
| 12 | As Gabriel worked on the top of the ricks , he suddenly remembered that , eight months before , he had been fighting against fire in the same place as desperately as he was fighting against water now — and for love of the same woman , who did not love him . |
| 13 | Swindon who are fighting against relegation for the second year running were six points down at one stage … they fought back … |
| 14 | Each House has its privileges ( though many are identical ) and whilst the modus vivendi above referred to may inveigh against interference by the ordinary courts into the affairs of the House of Commons , it is not at all clear that it precludes comment by the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords on the affairs of the House of Lords . |
| 15 | Whatever action can be taken against censorship at an institutional or individual level depends on the firmness and strength of the profession 's stated position , and that requires an examination of views , role and actions of the professional association , namely the Library Association , in response to censorship . |
| 16 | Don Cupitt welcomes two studies that warn against science as a secular religion ; Robert Wokler looks at the career of Denis Diderot , the Enlightenment 's impresario ; and Daniel Pick finds that superstitious theories of disease still flourish in the age of Aids |
| 17 | Most welcomed the general conclusion that " in the longer term , environmental pressures will operate against coal as a primary source of energy " , although many expressed disappointment that the government had not undertaken a more far-reaching assessment of the country 's energy needs and their environmental impact . |
| 18 | The authors note that no corrections could be made for other confounding variables that might lead to miscarriage in women who smoke and they caution against overinsterpretation of the apparent effect of one single variable in IVF-ET . |
| 19 | Unless firmer action is taken to remove these weaknesses then there can be no authority to act against censorship on a larger stage . |
| 20 | The mean counts were each corrected for nuclide decay and the results plotted against time on a semi-logarithmic plot . |
| 21 | A characteristically political perspective would argue for a more articulated view of the complexity of centre-periphery relationships than either pluralism or Marxism can provide but would also warn against imposition of a single political model such as corporatism . |
| 22 | In this the ‘ dense ’ and ‘ residential ’ variables ( equivalent to ‘ houses ’ ) were summed and regressed against population in a simple linear model . |
| 23 | Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf . |