Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It resists criticism and usually stands over against the culture of its day . |
| 2 | Man stands over against the awful otherness of God , by which his own existence is challenged , questioned and judged ; but in faith he finds the power nonetheless to live in that encounter with God by which each present moment becomes a meeting with eternity . |
| 3 | So , if Lenny Kravitz stands up against a wall with Slash , we 're there . |
| 4 | The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny . |
| 5 | Only Rugby Union holds out against the commercial tide despite widespread speculation about covert payments to players . |
| 6 | As I calmly shut the door he cringes back against the wall . |
| 7 | Because the matting is white in colour , the algae shows up against the matting extremely well , enabling quick and efficient cleaning . |
| 8 | If your Big Boss ends up against an enemy character then the two will tend to cancel out . |
| 9 | If a victim brushes up against a tentacle , literally thousands of these tiny cells automatically fire , shooting out the sharp-tipped tubes like minute harpoons . |
| 10 | JEREMY McWilliams faces the big one tomorrow when , as the first Ulster rider in the newly constituted 500cc World motor cycling championship , he lines up against the cream of the international circus at Eastern Creek , Sydney , for the Australian Grand Prix , the first round in the series . |
| 11 | McAuley will see how the Vortec shapes up against the Swifts and Van Diemens — and against his Comber neighbour Johnny Kane . |
| 12 | He lolls back against the wheelchair . |
| 13 | Joffe 's pious vision of man 's inhumanity to man all comes together in Pauline Collins ' clinic : it squares off against the local mafia , saves lepers etc . |
| 14 | The hundred shares index closed down.The pound is down againsthe dollar ands up against the mark . |
| 15 | The hundred shares index closed down.The pound is down againsthe dollar ands up against the mark . |
| 16 | John falls back against the pillows . |
| 17 | He leans back against the wall , seeing his face in the cracked , diamond-shaped mirror and he sifts through his thoughts , trying to hold back the vitriol while searching his face for yet more mutations . |
| 18 | He leans back against the mantelpiece with his coffee , mastering the situation , a man of the world entertaining his oldest friend in his mistress 's house . |
| 19 | Paul leans back against the cupboards . |
| 20 | Bill leans back against the bed by John 's feet . |
| 21 | Her head sags back against the pillow . |
| 22 | This means , in turn , that the initial state of the learner must be as a possessor of vast battalions of hypotheses which are selected out as the child bumps up against the physical world and the human conceptual system . |
| 23 | Here is one place where America 's concern with Eastern Europe bumps up against the Community 's own deliberations . |
| 24 | John collapses back against the pillows . |
| 25 | Hang on a minute , I just wan want to work out what happens if a complaint comes in against the Gas board ? |
| 26 | Today 's event should show if he has what is needed to take him to the top for he comes up against a very useful opponent in Sabin du Loir ( 1.15 ) . |
| 27 | Today 's event should show if he has what is needed to take him to the top for he comes up against a very useful opponent in Sabin du Loir ( 1.15 ) . |
| 28 | That such agreement underlies the working of the language game is likely to be overlooked until one comes up against a disagreement which it is difficult to regard as one of opinion . |
| 29 | The engineer who sets about designing an efficient sonar or radar device soon comes up against a problem resulting from the need to make the pulses extremely loud . |
| 30 | If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth , one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge , but eventually comes back to where one started . |