Example sentences of "[v-ing] against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtain was a dense , opaque greenish-yellow , and something was right behind it , a shape pressing against the humped plastic standing there looking down at him , half seen , half imagined . |
| 2 | He held her gaze , allowing his own eyes to drop to her breasts , which were pressing against the clinging material of her dress . |
| 3 | Fran swallowed hard , feeling the hard outline of his body pressing against the soft curve of her breast in a way that seemed to steal her breath . |
| 4 | Frenular bristles are absent or small in these insects but there is sometimes a more distally placed series of costal spines ( the pseudofrenulum ) on the hind wing which functions independently of the jugum by pressing against the anal area of the fore wing ( e.g. Sabatinca ) , or a series of interlocking hairs on the basal half of the hind margin of the fore Wing and the fore margin of the hind wing ( e.g. Mnesarchaea ) . |
| 5 | Here we are talking about single genes cheating against the other genes with which they share a body . |
| 6 | I was head and shoulders taller than she , my head knocking against the low rafters . |
| 7 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 8 | With a crash it fell inward , then swung sideways , twisting against the restraining chain . |
| 9 | By Christmas the party was in a furore , with the Cecils and Stanleys agitating against the new policy . |
| 10 | Her nose was pressed permanently against the window of the boat in an effort to see every beautiful palace with its sleek black gondolas bobbing against the striped poles at the end of jetties , waiting for some prince or wealthy politician to step into . |
| 11 | They hold as high positions as that and they run ministries , and I 'd like to add that in Kuwait the number of women deans in the Kuwait university is the highest in the world , so the woman is working side-by-side by the man , and we are very proud of them , we always have been , and especially after the invasion when I was in Kuwait on the fourth day the people who went in the streets chanting against the Iraqui invasion were the Kuwaiti women . |
| 12 | THE idea of a computer whizz-kid gaining access to classified data by accidentally brushing against the right button is the stuff of fantasy , according to a security consultant at the National Computing Centre in Manchester . |
| 13 | She moved closer to the picture , her eyes never leaving Ward 's face , her feet brushing against the soft silk as she walked over it . |
| 14 | With the populous FIMBRA offshoot of the Securities & Investment Board ( SIB ) bucking against the post-Financial Services Act regime , the whole concept of self-regulatory organisations is brought into question . |
| 15 | In addition to its delay in acting against the armed forces , the government was also behind schedule in establishing a civilian police force , and in introducing judicial and electoral reform . |
| 16 | Thus for restrictive practices the burden of proof lies on the companies to show that they are acting in the public interest : in contrast , the legislation on monopolies is more open-minded , requiring the MMC to make the case that companies are acting against the public interest . |
| 17 | In contrast , the UK takes a more neutral view of monopoly , requiring the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to demonstrate that a monopoly is acting against the public interest , and the same principle carries over to the assessment of prospective mergers . |
| 18 | Others were fighting to shut the gate , pushing against the sheer bodyweight of the beasts in the gateway . |
| 19 | It is the eternal message of men of vision , pushing against the dead weight of conservatism . |
| 20 | Further , they certainly did not succeed in swimming against the deep tide of recession which engulfed Nigeria from 1983 onwards . |
| 21 | Those of us involved in English language studies and teaching , and perhaps those in particular who are swimming against the ever-shifting currents that comprise the National English Curriculum , can benefit from Morton 's method . |
| 22 | But things change quickly at Ferrari and , in 1990 , he found himself swimming against the political tide . |
| 23 | Black shapes moved there , some huddled below the leaning walls , others flapping against the grey skyline . |
| 24 | Swallowing against the swollen tenderness of her throat , she tried to speak . |
| 25 | I went back into the lounge and there , glittering against the brown carpet , was that damned screw ! |
| 26 | In urging against the Aristotelian realists that ‘ general and universal , belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding ’ , he is , of course , reaffirming from a different angle his rejection of their ‘ forms ’ , and their talk of the possibility of there being ‘ real ’ definitions of things . |
| 27 | It was n't just that it looked so out of place hanging against the speckled mystery of clean , deep space . |
| 28 | Down in the channel they could hear the water slapping against the greasy mud walls . |
| 29 | The plane hit an air pocket , and the crash of the wings slapping against the high pressure outside reverberated through the cabin . |
| 30 | The closing pages of his journal speak repeatedly of the ‘ high surfs ’ and ‘ great waves ’ crashing against the Hawaiian littoral and preventing the Discovery and the Resolution from docking . |