Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [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 | ‘ This year 's Autumn Statement has been drawn up against a background of continuing recession at home and renewed weakness abroad , ’ the Chancellor said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the earlier work the circular , arching and swinging elements are played off against an angular , somewhat disjointed pictorial armature . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tiled surrounds built in the 1930s are set back against the brickwork , and the plaster made good around them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This view represents the actual foil pattern layout and is the side which will be placed down against the UV light source . |
| 16 | The request serial number should also be checked off against the records in the control book , and logged as completed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The third component should be written off against profit if it represents an overpayment or transferred to reserves if an underpayment . |
| 20 | In no circumstances , the report stresses , should any part of goodwill be written off against reserves . |
| 21 | Under byzantine medical and social insurance regulations in the USA , payments for maintenance and mortgage can be written off against tax . |
| 22 | The goodwill arising from these transactions shall be written off against reserves prior to completion . |
| 23 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 24 | Instead a person could be held to commit an offence if he used words or published written matter which were threatening abusive or insulting in situations where , ‘ having regard to all the circumstances , hatred is likely to be stirred up against any racial group in Britain . ’ |
| 25 | The whole weight of the State would be ganged up against it . |
| 26 | They may be crowded up against the window of the tour bus or milling together on the pavement , but one thing is for sure — they 're taking snapshots . |
| 27 | And since one partial theory can be played off against another in the same way that sentences can , we have eventually to hold , with Quine , that ‘ the unit of empirical significance is the whole of science ’ . |
| 28 | The potential benefits must be weighed up against the costs involved and the risk of failure . |
| 29 | But ( if permission is not a pre-1968 Act one ) the trench digger may be brought up against a further provision : he may be served with a ‘ completion notice ’ . |
| 30 | He described how the ladder was to be set up against the wire , how people were to clamber over and how they were to swing themselves clear through the gap at the end . |