Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cohen Committee admitted that these complaints were not altogether unfounded but all that has resulted is section 192 of the Act which invalidates provisions in trust deeds ( or elsewhere ) which purport to exempt a trustee from , or to indemnify him against , ‘ liability for breach of trust where he fails to show the degree of care and diligence required of him as a trustee having regard to the provisions of the trust deed conferring on him any powers , authorities or discretions . ’ |
| 2 | Only passing accounts of his life and work have appeared in the literature , and while brief references have been made to Nicholson 's excellence as a chemist , these have not done justice to his achievements , or set them against the London localities where they occurred . |
| 3 | It may want to mouth , not bite , the person 's hand ; or rest its chin on their shoulder ; or brush itself against the person in the same manner as the foal . |
| 4 | The branches of trees stretched out as if to peer over mill walls or rest themselves against the windowless rear walls of factory buildings . |
| 5 | I , I have a quandary here cos I 'm not quite sure whether I should be asking a question or proposing something against the deliverance but I have attended and er listened to a number of debates arising out of this matter of er the baptism of children and time and again it 's struck me that it starts off about baptism but it turns out to be a discussion about the parents . |
| 6 | His stomach seemed to be floating on a rising tide that compressed it against his sternum . |
| 7 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , cattle are enemies of grass in that it is still true that an individual grass plant would be better off not being eaten by a cow than being eaten , and any mutant plant that possessed , say , a chemical weapon that protected it against cows , would set more seed ( containing genetic instructions for making the chemical weapon ) than rival members of its own species that were more palatable to cows . |
| 9 | The children looked bewildered , but she added consolingly , ‘ That 's why dogs have to have an injection every year that protects them against that horrible disease as well as many others . ’ |
| 10 | The body has a defence system that protects it against outside invaders . |
| 11 | Bats , that wrap themselves against the light , |
| 12 | Tabitha separated herself from Marco with a convulsive heave that spreadeagled him against the porthole . |
| 13 | E. P. Thompson , in criticising Lawrence Stone 's reconstruction of The Family , Sex and Marriage , warned that : ‘ the point of history is not to see their occasions through the mist of our feelings , nor to measure them against the Modern Us . |
| 14 | It needs to be done now and it 's going to cost us more if we leave it till later , on that point I ca n't agree with your budget , so , I 'm afraid , it 's roads that put me against it . |
| 15 | It also contain antibodies that protect her against infections — and it costs nothing ! |
| 16 | Each story contains a different claim by Jesus that set himself against the religious leaders and pointed to the new way of Christianity : |
| 17 | I contrived to get Martinho beside Goreng 's jeep and laid him against a wheel . |
| 18 | He dropped a long , searching kiss on her mouth , then took her shaking hand and laid it against the powerful , overpowering size of his arousal . |
| 19 | He lifted his hand and laid it against her cheek , his fingers cool and firm against her skin . |
| 20 | Massive May Day marches in Madrid and other cities will be one symbol that 500 years after Spain ‘ discovered ’ America , a new group of Spanish workers is discovering their own power and using it against their own government . |
| 21 | The priest took the basin of blood and spattered it against the altar . |
| 22 | It floods the brain of the worker ant , grabs the reins of her muscles , woos her from deeply ingrained duties and turns her against her own mother . |
| 23 | He was straightening slightly , slipping his free hand round her waist and gathering her against him . |
| 24 | The poachers used stones to frighten their rabbits into the net , walking about and rattling one against the other . |
| 25 | Caught him by the Arran-knit jumper , he did , and flung him against the railings , demanding money . |
| 26 | One of the group then grabbed the boy and flung him against a wall . |
| 27 | Robbie screamed and flung herself against the protective width of Fen 's chest . |
| 28 | Without scrutinising the accounts and checking them against stock , Ian could think of no way of discovering whether Williams was telling the truth about the number of candles held by the Cathedral . |
| 29 | The research proceeds in the manner in which any theoretical piece of work proceeds — by experimenting with general ideas , working out their implications , and checking them against as wide a range of relevant concrete material as possible . |
| 30 | His language was a mixture of Czechoslovakian and English then , as , ‘ Moje milá , sweet miláčku , I love you so very much , ’ he cried , and cradled her against him , kissing her cheek , the corner of her left eye before , one of his hands moving to the back of her head , he adjusted her position until the skin of her cheek was against his . |