Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] against [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project has not been immune from some of the criticism levelled at the 400 museum rebuilding or building projects underway since the State launched its new museum policy in 1981 , and the mayor of Nîmes defends himself against accusations of megalomania by saying , ‘ We were lagging culturally . |
| 2 | Continuing our serious on disasters , today we 're going to talk about immunology — one of the ways in which the body defends itself against disease . |
| 3 | Wedging itself against DEC 's DECpresents and Island Graphics Inc 's IslandPresents , which go for $795 and $1,000 respectively — Perspecta says its looking to steal as much as 20% of the market away from its competitors . |
| 4 | You are pitting yourself against Pool . |
| 5 | Protecting yourself against loss of income and the expenses incurred during hospitalisation is an important step towards safeguarding your standard of living . |
| 6 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 7 | What a comment on our society , that we need to organise ourselves against vandalism and theft ! |
| 8 | Innocent had already shown himself against clergy being involved in the ordeal and the duel — the two survivals of superstitious methods of proof . |
| 9 | He may defend himself against attack , for example , cos he has a right to life and he may also defend his neighbours against attack . |
| 10 | They have a superior front five , although the Pontypridd lock Mark Rowley had been getting the better of several big names lately and will relish the prospect of testing himself against Tony Copsey . |
| 11 | THE NORTHERN Ireland Prison Service today defended itself against claims a prisoner was refused leave to visit his dangerously ill mother . |
| 12 | president of the College of Physicians , she defended herself against accusations of medical malpractice made by ‘ a malicious informant ’ . |
| 13 | Although — most fortunately — not everybody who feels the need to assert themselves against rules becomes a mass-murderer , there is undoubtedly today a widespread feeling that all rules and regulations are onerous and provocative . |
| 14 | In coastal areas social mobility led some lower castes and classes to assert themselves against headmen . |
| 15 | testing themselves against risk , |
| 16 | Properly testing themselves against risk , as a human must , and does |
| 17 | One reason doctors take temperatures is to cover themselves against negligence claims , although doctors ' legal defence bodies say there have been no such cases . |
| 18 | Make sure you have arranged mortgage Protection Cover and , if possible , insure yourself against sickness , redundancy or accident . |
| 19 | On the one hand we do n't want to say to Iraq you ca n't defend yourself against Iran , but on the other we do n't trust the Iraqis not to turn those aircraft on us . ’ |
| 20 | In the debate that followed , right-wing think-tanks pressed for radical changes : from introducing a requirement that people insure themselves against health bills and the state should merely help poor individuals , through tax relief to encourage private insurance , to the introduction of competition into the health market ( Letwin and Redwood , 1988 ; Pirie and Butler , 1988 ; Willetts and Goldsmith , 1988 ; Robinson , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | Although Zuwaya merchants defended themselves against government socialism by claiming that free enterprise worked , they were not capitalists in any reasonable use of the term , the defence forced upon them by Tripoli . |
| 22 | In those circumstances , difficulties should not be caused to member states which defended themselves against practices designed to circumvent the quota system by determining in accordance with international law the criteria on whose basis they granted vessels the right to fly their flag . |
| 23 | Of course there are individual doctors who are well aware of the mess their profession has got itself into ; but the very fact that they are in a profession , and one which has succeeded in armouring itself against state intervention , makes it hard for them to get their ideas accepted . |
| 24 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 25 | She had actually defended herself against Margaret Lacey , the school bully , and she had won . |
| 26 | After all , I do n't need to insure myself against Maurice 's treachery any more , do I ? ’ |
| 27 | Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself . |
| 28 | For the latter the risk was high and he took even more stringent steps to protect himself against default . |
| 29 | ‘ I got the most stick when Clinton was defending himself against allegations of an affair . |
| 30 | However , with a gene transplant , doctors at Great Ormond Street — who have been working with scientists from the University of Leiden in Holland — hope to reprogramme Carly 's genes to enable her to protect herself against infection . |