Example sentences of "and [verb] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Democratic optimists say Clinton will now shift gears , promoting himself as the candidate of energy and change against Bush 's stuck-in-the-mud , colourlessly pragmatic , status quo conservatism . |
| 2 | Secondly , he applies it to rulers , who have to be guarded , and guarded against . |
| 3 | Correct clearance between these entities can be established and checked against the desired relationships . |
| 4 | Other information originates at different sources ; for example , travel and subsistence claims are submitted by the employee , and checked against information kept by the finance section responsible for this function , prior to their approval for payment . |
| 5 | Though not all his points are equally well taken , there can be no doubt that he is right in his basic assertion that the Kanunname is shot through with anachronisms suggesting sixteenth-century alterations and additions and that any provision of it must be treated with reserve and checked against other sources before being accepted as being genuinely of the time of Mehmed II . |
| 6 | Figures were compared and checked against those provided from the computer print-out , leaving the manager optimistic about his potential success . |
| 7 | Chlorine is well-known for its drying and oxidising qualities which have the effect of bleaching the hair and reacting against the chemicals used in perms and colorants . |
| 8 | Finn lit a cigarette and lolled against the chest-of-drawers , which shifted under his weight . |
| 9 | They had n't negotiated any furniture to get to the far side of the room and sit against the opposite wall and she had the impression , either because of that or because of the resonance of voices , that the room was empty . |
| 10 | The wave toppled , thrashed and boiled against the ground , but hardly advanced another step up the beach . |
| 11 | Put another way , the area which can properly be called the ‘ tectonic Pacific ’ is one of relatively low altitude that is bounded by a ring of islands and mountains which have been — and are still being — formed by the geological processes that occur when one tectonic plate bumps into and grinds against another . |
| 12 | For there are other plates surrounding the Pacific Plate and they jostle and crash against each other , like ice floes at break-up time ; and as they jostle so they tide up against each other , pushing each other deeper , cracking and bending as they do so — only on a global scale , and with extraordinary consequences . |
| 13 | The wounded German Officer was carried up the grassy bank and placed against a tree . |
| 14 | When lifted and placed against a transparent plastic sheet they would show up the tiniest particle . |
| 15 | She spun out of his arms and he grabbed , getting her shirt collar and yanking against her movement away from him . |
| 16 | But still they slandered him and conspired against him , not only the Welsh Minorites of Llanfaes , whose house he had burned last year , but the Franciscans everywhere , in Norfolk , in Leicester , in Kent . |
| 17 | Trafford Park food companies headed by Kelloggs , Brooke Bond and Walls formed a thirteen food company group which opposed the incinerators and lobbied against the campaign handing in over 40,000 signatures and over 600 submissions were sent to the UDC prior to the date of the decision , including one from the Students ' Union concerned that the University was directly in line with the prevailing wind from the proposed site . |
| 18 | She put her arm round him and pressed against him . |
| 19 | It rode up and down his face , his eyes and nose , and pressed against his lips . |
| 20 | The blunt end of the club suddenly came up and pressed against his cheek , and then moved around to rest against his teeth . |
| 21 | The paper is then passed between two rollers and pressed against the etched cylinder drawing the ink out by absorption . |
| 22 | She caught the mischief in my eyes and pressed against me . |
| 23 | Ronni moaned and pressed against him , her own hand seeking the buttons of his shirt , undoing them quickly then sliding inside to press against the muscular warmth of his chest . |
| 24 | They were bodies whose chemistry accorded closely with the Thatcher style , like the ministerial group Mrs Thatcher had convened and stacked against Heseltine in the aftermath of the 1981 riots . |
| 25 | My cases were brought in and stacked against the wall . |
| 26 | The car bucked and lunged against the flowered banks , shaking the two ofthem loose like dolls as it turned over and over . |
| 27 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 28 | There were bodies scattered all over the road , people lying on the pavement and propped against walls . |
| 29 | An unfinished water-colour was on the easel , but it was a canvas done in oils and propped against the wall that seized and riveted her attention . |
| 30 | When their paths crossed years later at Manchester United , Morgan admits that he ‘ thought the world of The Doc ’ but slowly , bit by bit , it began to emerge that Docherty was mistreating some players and scheming against others . |