Example sentences of "[verb] against [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | But Kambli did beat the previous highest made against England by an Indian , Gundappa Vishwanath 's 222 in 1981-82 . |
| 6 | Gittens , who played against Sunderland in the 1990 Wembley play-off final , is thrilled at the prospect of first-team football at Ayresome Park . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The odds are heavily stacked against Pears for the final game at Wolves on Saturday . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Excess relief may be used against CGT in the same tax year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I just want to play against Ireland in the next match . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Tonbridge had a much closer call in the semi-final , the crucial third point coming against Stowe at the fourth extra hole from Martin Yates and Simon Ellis , former Cambridge captain , who had been dormy three down . |
| 18 | Eleven of the team that started against France in the second Test last month are in action . |
| 19 | Ralph had been drafted for the army to fight against Scotland in a bloody civil war that had torn the country apart . |
| 20 | Moreover , a few years later , the Burgundians did provide troops to fight against Attila at the Catalaunian Plains . |
| 21 | Scotland were due to start against Vanuatu with the following team : A Stanger ( Hawick ) , M Appleson ( London Scottish ) , G Townsend ( Gala ) , A Nicol ( Dundee HSFP ) , D Turnbull ( Hawick ) , I Corcoran ( Gala ) and A Roxburgh ( Kelso ) . |
| 22 | The Tottenham manager had said that his team would be tougher than the ones that were overturned by Port Vale and Bradford in notorious FA Cup defeats , and better than the one that struggled against Southend in an earlier round of this competition . |
| 23 | Servette have played in Europe 20 times , including a 4–3 aggregate win against Linfield in the 1985 European Cup . |
| 24 | Thucydides ' reticence about the decrees passed against Megara in the 430s , perhaps early in the decade , is one of his most famous silences , comparable to his omission of the peace of Kallias . |
| 25 | From evidence available this week , by which I mean the remarkable feats of sharp reflex and well-practised agility Peter Shilton performed against Poland in a crucial World Cup qualifying tie in Chorzow , England ought not to embark for Italy next summer without first packing trench tools and barbed wire , while giving some serious attention to the laying of mines in their penalty area . |
| 26 | Neath were playing against Brive in a quadrangular tournament involving Toulouse and Bath . |
| 27 | There 's no doubt it 's going to be difficult for us but if we play for 90 minutes the same way we did against Cork in the first half last week , we 'll return with something from the game . ’ |
| 28 | He can play himself into a commanding position — as he did against Courier in the French Open , Wheaton at Wimbledon and Sampras in last year 's ATP final — and then somehow , his judgement deserts him , every time . |
| 29 | The WBC has given its belt to Britain 's Lennox Lewis because of Bowe 's refusal to defend against Lewis within a prescribed time . |
| 30 | Abdoulkarim , leader of the Union nationale pour la démocratie aux Comores , had stood against Djohar in the 1990 presidential elections . |