Example sentences of "[to-vb] against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps . |
| 2 | She did n't want to come against the flat slack flesh . |
| 3 | Work by Shiller ( 1979 ) claims to find against the Efficient Markets hypothesis in USA and UK bond markets . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 5 | He no longer believed that it was possible to struggle against the cruel forces of capitalist wealth . |
| 6 | The world is tragic because men and women are compelled to struggle against the oppressive , deathly forces of their social condition in order to accede to the world of the living . |
| 7 | To struggle against it was revolutionary and progressive , whereas to struggle against the objective processes producing a class would be futile and Utopian . |
| 8 | For me — who had consciously to struggle against the imagaic maelstrom implicit in the idea of retroscendence — to have to deploy my powers in this pedestrian manner seemed nothing less than absurd . |
| 9 | Evert was supposed to struggle against the hard-hitting Jana Novotna , who has risen to 12th in the world rankings . |
| 10 | They continue to work against the democratic interests of the nation whose people do support the concept of local government . |
| 11 | The two men , who were completely sober despite their time in the bar , moved away to stand against the cracked plaster walls of the buildings to either side of the main road , glancing quickly around the corners to check for traffic . |
| 12 | By forging letters from Walter she , paradoxically , felt she could convey a real image of him to stand against the false one . |
| 13 | To stand against the old order , the new national States would have to be strong — ‘ The very first conditions of national existence ( are ) large numbers and compactness of territory , ’ along with resources , ability and a favourable social organization . |
| 14 | In a show of confidence , the government allowed independent candidates to stand against the ruling Baath party . |
| 15 | ‘ The play specifies long-drawn-out public torture for many animals , especially those the playwright deems most to offend against the Conventional Rules of Duty . |
| 16 | Under the new planting , work in a good lump of compost , moist peat , or contents from a spent growbag ; this will serve as a moisture-absorbent reservoir to guard against the arch enemy of new plantings : drying out . |
| 17 | Insurance — how to guard against the unexpected disaster , perhaps the loss of someone you depend on , or an accident , or damage to your house or loss of your possessions . |
| 18 | If critics , then and later , were able to point to many shaky assumptions and inconsistencies in British nuclear thinking , a personal adviser to Duncan Sandys subsequently argued that " the unknowns were so great " that a number of options were essential to guard against the unexpected . |
| 19 | In reality , public companies not only compete against other : they also have to guard against the ever-present risk of takeovers . |
| 20 | There the company had undertaken to lay some thousands of miles of pipe line across the permafrost , spreading before it specially constructed polystyrene boards to guard against the disastrous consequences of direct contact with the ice . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 . |
| 22 | My wife , an orange badge holder , and myself , know the badge system is abused by certain people but is it necessary to discriminate against the genuine case ? |
| 23 | With misplaced kindness , the best of us refuse to discriminate against the worst . |
| 24 | And do n't you think , he 'd like to score a happy marriage to set against the other one ? ’ |
| 25 | Yet these are small gains to set against the many reverses the right has suffered since Mr de Klerk started to undo apartheid . |
| 26 | Against Ireland the English backs showed wit , poise , passing skills and pace enough to set against the best . |
| 27 | Critics tried to rescue older notions of ‘ community ’ or ‘ citizenship ’ to set against the competitive values of the Thatcher government — only to discover that the latter was highly adept in taking over these themes itself in such areas as housing , education , and ‘ neighbourhood watch ’ crime-prevention schemes , partly as a weapon against left-wing local authorities . |
| 28 | The next section traces the traditional arguments for and against health care markets to set against the peculiar hybrid that was introduced into the NHS . |
| 29 | Widnes , meanwhile , have decided not to appeal against the eight-match suspension imposed on Mike O'Neill . |
| 30 | The meeting was adjourned to allow the government time to appeal against the Supreme Court decision . |