Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 2 | The home-help walked down the road towards Marie , wheeling her bike which had been propped up against the curb . |
| 3 | In the Fawlty Towers belt of Torquay , abandoned hotels have been boarded up against vandals . |
| 4 | The opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell pressed the point and eventually , on 14 May , Eden was forced to admit that an underwater spying operation had been carried out against the Russian ships by Crabb but that it had been done without official approval . |
| 5 | This is necessary because many overhead costs are not included in work in progress but are written off against current profits each year ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 6 | Trees and cultivation are fenced off against their hungry assaults . |
| 7 | The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years . |
| 8 | Do you know what you 're going up against ? |
| 9 | this is what we 're coming up against ! |
| 10 | So I think we 're coming up against … |
| 11 | ‘ This year 's Autumn Statement has been drawn up against a background of continuing recession at home and renewed weakness abroad , ’ the Chancellor said . |
| 12 | A prosecution was brought , and one night in April , shortly after an indictment had been drawn up against two police officers , a police superintendent accompanied by the two accused police officers , visited the family business , a café , looking for Servet Sayan . |
| 13 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 14 | Ah right so the the direction the clouds are moving in against this frosted glass screen |
| 15 | Poor people of the region , particularly women , are speaking out against this injustice and organising basic health care in their communities . |
| 16 | Creditably a handful of influential figures are speaking out against the cult of confidentiality . |
| 17 | There was the Bishop of Limerick defending the Easter Rising , a man who thirty years before had been speaking out against resistance to civil authority . |
| 18 | The deputy was a Socialist , he had been speaking out against the old work conditions that were being reimposed . |
| 19 | In the earlier work the circular , arching and swinging elements are played off against an angular , somewhat disjointed pictorial armature . |
| 20 | His once magnificent ruff of side-whiskers had been slicked down against his cheeks like wet fur and his ears had flattened apprehensively against his head . |
| 21 | For 15 years the basic state pension has been uprated in line with prices , not earnings ; as a result , the living standards of the poorest old people have been drifting down against those of people in work . |
| 22 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |
| 23 | ‘ There are people who are ‘ smokers and proud of it ’ who are coming up against the trend that the rest of society wants to see . ’ |
| 24 | Tiled surrounds built in the 1930s are set back against the brickwork , and the plaster made good around them . |
| 25 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 26 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |
| 27 | The request serial number should also be checked off against the records in the control book , and logged as completed . |
| 28 | Since countries were obliged to maintain par values , it was possible for speculation to be carried out against the stronger and weaker currencies in the knowledge that the currencies concerned might be revalued or devalued respectively , but there was no danger of the strong currencies being devalued or the weak currency being revalued . |
| 29 | They include asking whether various capital losses could be written off against property companies owned by BAe ; whether the Government was aware of BAe 's attempts to use leasing companies to defray indirectly further tax bills ; and what was the total trading tax loss written off . |
| 30 | The third component should be written off against profit if it represents an overpayment or transferred to reserves if an underpayment . |