Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] against [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though in the passage above Gummer undermines his own argument ( through his use of the phrase ‘ at least among the articulate ’ , he implies that this consensus is confined to a certain section of society ) it is crucial to his thesis that the changes to be identified under the rubric of permissiveness should be viewed against the backcloth of an alleged Victorian moral consensus . |
| 2 | We firmly believe , without prejudging all the issues which have been raised in relation to the problem , that whatever mistakes were made should be viewed against the background of her overall contribution on the one hand and the activities of the enemy on the other . |
| 3 | Remember , if the buyer is borrowing on the security of a mortgage of the registered property , that the buyer is not yet the registered proprietor , and accordingly a land charges search in bankruptcy on the appropriate land charges form should be made against the buyer on behalf of his or her mortgagee in the unregistered Land Charges Register . |
| 4 | In this particular situation , a letter of support would indicate a legal or commercial obligation , and so provision should be made against the debit minority interest recognised in the consolidated balance sheet . |
| 5 | Provision should be made against the investment if there is any impairment in value . |
| 6 | Government intervention in a market economy should be assessed against the criteria of distributional equity and allocative efficiency . |
| 7 | However , this should be seen against the background of the varying capital adequacy requirements for FIMBRA regulated firms . |
| 8 | No fast should be undertaken against an opponent ; it should be undertaken rather for the good of those near and dear to the person who fasts . |
| 9 | For analysts who are designers creating a new task there may be no alternative , but any task description arrived at by this method should be checked against the behaviour of real operators as they gain experience . |
| 10 | L 220 , p. 1 ) providing that all fish catches subject to quota made by vessels ‘ flying the flag ’ or ‘ registered ’ in a member state should be charged against the quota applicable to that state , the applicants in the main proceedings maintained that there was no basis for suggesting that that provision permitted member states to derogate as regards the grant of the flag from their basic E.E.C . |
| 11 | There is a story told against Jimmy Davidson which , in fact , should be told against the game in Ireland . |
| 12 | AMP 's offer document published yesterday claims that the share price has been inflated by speculation and the offer should be judged against the price of 394p per share prevailing before AMP raised its stake in Pearl to 18 per cent last June . |
| 13 | And they questioned the right of the rich world to set standards , arguing that human rights should be considered against the background of geography , culture and religion . |
| 14 | A military tribunal 's claim in November that the dead were Colombian rebels , was followed by a conflicting court ruling in January 1989 that charges should be brought against the perpetrators and their superior officers . |
| 15 | And if they were n't then disciplinary measures should be taken against the person or people responsible . |
| 16 | " But perhaps holding the views you do makes you feel no action should be taken against the enemies of France . " |
| 17 | But this does not mean that a dispute about the interpretation of the lease must be decided against the landlord if it possibly can be . |
| 18 | Just as degrees of handicap must be seen against a continuum of need , so must the learning of individual children . |
| 19 | In noting such comments , it is appropriate to recall that this discussion must be seen against a background described with some outrage by many commentators . |
| 20 | The Public Order Act 1986 does not codify the law and must be seen against a background of common law . |
| 21 | The authors claim the increase must be seen against a background of changes in the labour market , making equality of pay , opportunity and status more difficult . |
| 22 | That the SNP managed to exploit nationality — to make it politically pertinent — in 1974 must be seen against the background of Scotland , and West Central Scotland in particular , as one of the relatively ‘ depressed regions ’ of the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | All of this must be achieved against a background of general practitioners in inner cities struggling with an increasingly challenging role as services providers in primary care . |
| 24 | Michael Perry stresses that these are no more than speculations prefaced by ‘ perhaps ’ and ‘ I do n't knows ’ , and adds the caveat that they must be tested against the touchstone of a Christian understanding . |
| 25 | With a registered title , this is normally the only final search you make except when you act for a mortgagee : then a bankruptcy search must be made against the borrower because your title search will not , of course , reveal anything about him or her . |
| 26 | Where the company can exercise the right of set-off against a preferential creditor who is also owed a non-preferential debt by the company , the set-off must be exercised against the debts rateably in proportion to the amounts of the preferential and non-preferential claims of the creditor . |
| 27 | The propensity for errors to occur must be balanced against the necessity for both management and surveying staff to have a reasonable degree of trust in the analysed cost figures produced . |
| 28 | However if significant additional capacity is needed then the potential benefits of software control must be balanced against the price of processor expansion . |
| 29 | However , the test of what is ‘ reasonably practicable ’ as opposed to ‘ practicable ’ , is not just whether the measures taken are financially or physically possible but the degree of risk must be balanced against the sacrifice involved . |
| 30 | ‘ Free scope for market forces and commercial development ’ , Titmuss muses , ‘ must be balanced against the claims of the environment , and there was , surely , more environment round Rapstone Valley [ his country seat ] than almost anywhere else in the British Isles . ’ |