Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’ |
| 2 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 3 | A cowboy was out on the range when he came across an Indian with his ear pressed down hard against the trail . |
| 4 | As the regime 's dependence on the Islamic fundamentalists became more and more pronounced , it cracked down hard against the threat of opposition , whether from the left and the unions or from within the military ; following alleged coup attempts in April and September 43 officers accused of involvement were summarily executed [ see pp. 37367 ; 37703 ] . |
| 5 | Train for this with bent-leg sit-ups , changing the angle of the knee from nearly straight to heels tucked in tightly against the buttocks . |
| 6 | Darlington bombarded the Reading goal in the opening stages but without success , and went a goal down completely against the run of play after 40 minutes . |
| 7 | Quakers completely dominated the opening stages , but without success , and went a goal down completely against the run of play after 40 minutes . |
| 8 | The British Treasury finally came down firmly against the idea of trying to " wriggle through " without the loan . |
| 9 | More positively , both the BFASS and most of its critics in England and Scotland , though not some of the more circumspect Scots abolitionists , sounded off powerfully against the Free Church 's financial reliance on southern slaveholders after its break from the Church of Scotland in 1843 . |
| 10 | His filthy hands showed up starkly against the white mug he was holding . |
| 11 | The light was thickening but the twisted silvery grey trunks with their crusted bark showed up clearly against the long grass where some of last autumn 's apples still lay , puckered and brown . |
| 12 | The steam seemed to have cleared a little and Lucien could see that Walterkin sat up straight against the far wall , his knees raised , his hands dangling between them . |
| 13 | He folded up sideways against the winch , and immediately tried to get up again . |
| 14 | There were half-a-dozen silent people in the corridor , queueing up self-consciously against the green walls . |
| 15 | Here the spreading main branches show up well against the snow . |
| 16 | The rainbow tie showed up well against the midnight blue of the shirt . |
| 17 | The pale colour is usually white or yellow or orange and shows up vividly against the dark areas . |
| 18 | Sole practitioners themselves came out overwhelmingly against the imposition of further restrictions ( 86% ) . |
| 19 | Leonora leaned back thankfully against the piled pillows , listening to the wind , which howled around the house like a hundred banshees demanding entry . |
| 20 | And even then the pageant is not over , for the leaves change colour before they shrivel , and when they drop off , the bare gnarled trees stand out fantastically against the winter sky . |
| 21 | The black-out curtains which were rolled neatly above the windows stood out starkly against the light green walls and wooden skirting boards . |
| 22 | The shards of horn stood out starkly against the snow-cloud sky . |
| 23 | Stevenson himself was one of the few to speak out strenuously against the newly received wisdom — ‘ the idea that you can merchandize candidates like breakfast cereal ’ . |
| 24 | The low flute-notes here stand out clearly against the almost inaudible muted trombone chord . |
| 25 | A miniature thorn-clad island dominated its centre , standing out darkly against the surrounding bright water . |
| 26 | Put the barrow back up against the door will you ? |
| 27 | The evening shadows were lengthening , one or two lights were coming on in buildings across the city and the dark mass of the cathedral stood out sharply against the soft viridian sky . |
| 28 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |
| 29 | And the Beau Nash Room might just as well have been their luxury coach : twenty-three of them only for the minute , with Eddie Stratton now being held in custody by the New York Police , distanced by only a few yards , as it happened , from the mortal remains of his former wife ; and with Sam and Vera Kronquist , one of the three married couples originally listed on the tour , still in their room on the second floor of the hotel — Sam watching a mid-morning cartoon on ITV , and Vera , fully dressed , lying back lazily against the pillows of their double bed , reading the previous February 's issue of Country Life . |
| 30 | At a joint emergency session of the Federal Assembly in Prague which began on Sept. 11 , Czech leftist and Slovak Christian Democrat deputies spoke out strongly against the proposed liquidation of the Federation . |