Example sentences of "[noun sg] work against the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |
| 2 | Even where secrecy was not ordered from above , the squabbling Soviet bureaucracy worked against the efficient collection and distribution of data . |
| 3 | One can therefore say that the Reynolds stress works against the mean velocity gradient to remove energy from the mean flow , just as the viscous stress works against the velocity gradient . |
| 4 | Journals such as Cecil Chesterton 's The New Witness and Leo Maxse 's National Review , and right-wing political authors like Arnold White , argued that there was an alleged hidden hand in British government working against the national interest to secure the victory of Germany . |
| 5 | So , after many years of religious selection pressure working against the pure-black cat , there was now the added pressure of medical quackery . |