Example sentences of "as [noun pl] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michel Noir , the dashing young mayor of Lyons , and Michèle Barzach , an ex-minister of health and a former protégée of Jacques Chirac , the RPR leader , are standing for re-election as independents against official RPR candidates . |
| 2 | I was very happy ; and if sometimes the familiarities in our relationship were of an irritating nature ( like the way he teased me , as he had always teased me , about my sticking-out ears , for instance ) I pushed them aside and refused to acknowledge them — even when they were quite important , the sort of things on which the nagging small voice was once wont to pounce as reasons against any positive commitment . |
| 3 | Various contraceptive methods have always been known , from abortion to coitus interruptus , and by the eighteenth century condoms were available , though they seem to have been usually used as safeguards against venereal disease rather than for birth control . |
| 4 | They tend to be regarded as lists against which particular accountability schemes need only to be checked off . |
| 5 | Many are held by firms as reserves against liabilities , or to cement business relationships . |
| 6 | For example , ten new schools were opened by various local authorities in 1938–39 as barriers against substantial expenditure were lifted . |
| 7 | In simple societies , whose collective sentiments are based on religion , all crimes ( even crimes such as murder ) are essentially ‘ religious criminality ’ : they are seen as offences against God or the gods . |
| 8 | The ANC in turn vigorously denied these allegations and condemned the repressive rule of Gqozo , whom it had criticized already for imposing his supporters as headmen against the will of local communities . |
| 9 | There , I would be just as much a stranger , but they would have to define themselves against me as natives against incomers , or in terms of social classification . |
| 10 | Ethnology shows that girdles of cowrie shells were worn by Tibetan women as charms against barrenness . |
| 11 | But it is another matter to use these ideas , or rather the names of their originators , primarily as weapons against an insular establishment . |
| 12 | Not only are we vulnerable in our own cars , but other people can use their cars as weapons against us . |
| 13 | He uses doggerel and lampoon as weapons against his captors . |
| 14 | Labour has now moved to a position of adopting EEC laws and institutions as weapons against Conservative economic policy . |
| 15 | These segments are used as targets against which appropriate products or services can be positioned , and upon which an appropriate promotional mix may be focussed . |
| 16 | Market segments are then used as targets against which appropriate products or services can be positioned , if the forecast revenues are likely to exceed the costs to be incurred . |
| 17 | The company should then use the segments that it has defined as targets against which products may be positioned . |
| 18 | These clusters are then used as targets against which products should be positioned . |
| 19 | The SCOTVEC system will provide national audit criteria as benchmarks for centres ' internal quality systems to be measured against and also as targets against which those systems can be developed . |
| 20 | Likewise , ministers exercise various appellate functions in adjudicating between citizens and local authorities ( such as appeals against a local authority 's refusal of planning permission ) . |
| 21 | Symmetry about the vertical exerts powerful effects on figure-ground segregation in normal observers ; other factors being equal , symmetrical shapes are seen as figures against asymmetrical grounds . |
| 22 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 23 | Since the tomato , being a member of the Solanaceae tribe which includes also the poisonous nightshades , was long regarded as a dangerous if not actually deadly fruit ( the potato and the aubergine , also of the Solanaceae family , have in their time suffered from the same associations ) presumably the mixture of vinegar and spices used in the early sauces were regarded as safety-devices against the possibly toxic effects of the fruit itself . |
| 24 | Ignored was the consideration that interrogators of prisoners do not come forward as witnesses against themselves before police boards or civil courts . |
| 25 | In suggesting ways in which the shifting structures of repetition and difference can be traced , what it has attempted to do is to open up some new contexts , both theoretical and institutional , in which texts and genres can be thought , and to reopen some old points of difficulty which still serve as sticking-points against the slide into accommodation . |
| 26 | Despite his disappointments he starred for the South African side which played as Springboks against the Juniors late last season . |
| 27 | The first is that of feminist campaigners based , not only in rape crisis centres and refuges , but also in specialist lobby groups such as Women Against Rape and Women Against Violence Against Women . |
| 28 | The inner cabinet was split along party lines six to six , but tied votes are taken as votes against , writes Charles Richards . |
| 29 | Those crimes which are reported are more likely to be committed by the working class because they are more visible , such as crimes against property . |
| 30 | ourselves , well we 've got ta protect ourselves as carriers against other people saying ah ! |