Example sentences of "against the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This warning was given by the Eastern Licensing Authority , Mr Kenneth Peter , when he considered taking action against the licence held by Orwell Transport Ltd of Ipswich , following the conviction of the company and one of its drivers on offences involving the falsification of tachograph charts . |
| 2 | In deciding to take no action against the licence , Mr Peter said that he bore in mind that it was due to be renewed shortly when he would want a report on the company 's arrangements in regard to drivers ' hours and records . |
| 3 | They were focused on a massive campaign against the double-standard and its enshrinement in law . |
| 4 | Wilkinson conceded that odds against the title going to Elland Road for the first time in 18 years have ‘ lengthened considerably ’ but he refused to throw in the towel . |
| 5 | In the case of registered land , this involves a search at HM Land Registry against the title number to the land and in the case of unregistered land , a search against the vendor and previous estate owners for the length of period of each estate owner 's ownership . |
| 6 | In the matter of searches the only search necessary before completion is against the title , on the appropriate Form 94A ( search relating to whole of land in a title ) or 94B ( search relating to part ) . |
| 7 | As far as registered land is concerned , the second mortgage will be registered automatically against the title on the lodging of the application for registration . |
| 8 | The benefits in earnings terms from devaluation have to be set against the increase in these liabilities . |
| 9 | She noted that , if the shareholders decide against the increase , ‘ we have other offers , ’ and did not rule out a return to EDS . |
| 10 | One is that Hastings was unhappy with Gloucester 's wish to extend his power as protector beyond the coronation , but this seems illogical when the available evidence suggests that Hastings had earlier welcomed Gloucester as a bulwark against the increase in Woodville power likely to follow the young king 's nominal assumption of authority . |
| 11 | Over 85 per cent are then lent out to borrowers on mortgage , part of the remaining 15 per cent is used to buy liquid assets , a small part stays with the society 's bank as an increased holding of immediate liquidity , against the increase in deposit liabilities . |
| 12 | One is that Hastings was unhappy with Gloucester 's wish to extend his power as protector beyond the coronation , but this seems illogical when the available evidence suggests that Hastings had earlier welcomed Gloucester as a bulwark against the increase in Woodville power likely to follow the young king 's nominal assumption of authority . |
| 13 | Furthermore , 66 per cent of respondents were against the return or even the 1967 refugees . |
| 14 | Similarly there is only a fog , when it comes to crimes committed by governments ( Douglas and Johnson 1977 ) , particularly when these victimize Third World countries ( Shawcross 1979 ) or become genocidal ( Brown 1971 , Horowitz 1977 ) , or by governmental control agencies such as the police when they assault or use deadly force unwarrantedly against the public or suspected persons ( see Chapter 3 ) , or prison officers ( Coggan and Walker 1982 ; Thomas and Pooley 1980 ) , or special prison hospital staff when they brutalize and torture persons in their protective custody . |
| 15 | The result is becoming too impenetrable to be viewed as anything but a plot against the public . |
| 16 | The explanation for this may be that public law wrongs are first and foremost wrongs against the public ; they infringe the public 's right to be lawfully governed . |
| 17 | The need for such a policy was recognized by Adam Smith when he wrote in the Wealth of Nations in 1776 : ‘ People of the same trade seldom meet together , even for merriment and diversion , but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public , or in some instances to raise prices . ’ |
| 18 | Thus Smith wrote that ‘ people in the same trade seldom meet together but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public . ’ |
| 19 | What I 'm begging , especially our leaders so to speak , to do is to stop thinking that it 's all kind of a joke that 's being perpetrated by idiots or by of some sort against the public . |
| 20 | But according to a report in The Builder , some architects protested against the competition , while P. L. Hardwick wanted to limit it to British architects . |
| 21 | The presence of your firm has to be pushed against the competition — and eventually your firm has to be advanced at the expense of others . |
| 22 | In the mid-1950s , when the private sector finance houses were increasing their facilities for private retailers , the Government withheld some of the funds the Boards requested for developing their own hire purchase schemes , thus further hobbling them against the competition . |
| 23 | Who are these anonymous people in the organization making decisions on pay ( " The company should pay us more " ) or on other issues ( " The company should take a tougher line against the competition " ) ? |
| 24 | ‘ BPX led the change in the North Sea and we continue to benchmark against the competition which is now hard on our heels . |
| 25 | In rural districts and in manufacturing towns charity schools could expect to make little progress against the competition of child employment and complaints of this came repeatedly from clothing and mining districts . |
| 26 | They believe that only as a free-standing business will SAP be able to hold its own against the competition — particularly with world demand for soda ash growing at less than one per cent a year . |
| 27 | Luxmoore J. ordered rectification as against the daughter but , having concluded that the non est factum plea failed , he dismissed the rectification claim against the chargees . |
| 28 | It appears also from the report of argument that rectification as against the daughter was conceded and that the only issue in the case against the chargees was the non est factum issue . |
| 29 | In my opinion , paragraph ( a ) , rather than paragraph ( d ) , provided the power to rectify as against the daughter . |
| 30 | If the non est factum case had succeeded , paragraph ( g ) also would have been in point , both against the daughter and against the chargees . |