Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] against [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's Word is not simply a bare event of encounter with the Subject who stands over against us as Lord . |
| 2 | A realist approach lays stress on the belief that the world has an existence independent of any observer ; that it stands over against us as an entity in its own right . |
| 3 | Another is the dialectic , a pattern of movement which proceeds from a starting-point ( the thesis ) to another which stands over against it in opposition or contradiction ( the antithesis ) , and then moves on to a third stage in which the two are reconciled and reintegrated on a higher level ( the synthesis ) . |
| 4 | A girl in my class , just because one coloured girl does n't like her everybody gangs up against her . |
| 5 | The most imperative need of all when it comes to Lord 's where leg spinners often make their presence felt , is for England to have at least two left handers and to see how Warne gets on against them . |
| 6 | The humiliations may show us the strength of the opposition which the world , temporal and spiritual , sets up against him , but they promise too the kind of imaginative and moral strength which will raise him about it . |