Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] oppose to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say that on behalf of the party he beat as opposed to the one that he put into third place — the Conservative party , which was marginalised in that by-election . |
| 2 | In this article I would like to have a look at the nuts and bolts of his style , with the emphasis being shifted to the devices that he uses as opposed to the specific parts that he plays . |
| 3 | Likewise , it was common ground that faulty administration contemplated the procedures by which decisions are made as opposed to the merits of the decisions . |
| 4 | He pointed to commitments by the Commission and member states to avoid unnecessary testing through agreements on mutual recognition of test results , and the Commission 's support for ‘ fixed dose ’ testing as opposed to the LD50 approach . |
| 5 | This is called ‘ hard ’ copy as opposed to the intangible ‘ soft ’ copy on your screen . |
| 6 | One of the aims of the review was to produce a formula which was empirically based as opposed to the original RAWP formula , which included standardised mortality ratio as a proxy for need on theoretical grounds . |
| 7 | Service occupations , then , are what people do as opposed to the industry which employs them . |
| 8 | Cos that 'd just be you 'd figure for Z squared as opposed to the whole lot . |
| 9 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 10 | Also , at the end of the day there may not be a great deal of difference between a system which requires all charges subject to exceptions to be registered as opposed to the present one which requires specified charges to be registered subject to the power of the Secretary of State to add to or delete from their number . |
| 11 | You must do this very thoroughly , as the picture will not be as tightly secured against the glass if it only has a free-standing photograph frame backing as opposed to the hardboard backing one uses for normal pictures . |
| 12 | In contrast , Artegall 's final encounter with Grantorto , again organised as a formal chivalric contest , shows Artegall as intensely self-composed and controlled as opposed to the giant 's enraged but chaotic behaviour . |
| 13 | Huntington is shrewd when he reveals many implications in Wells 's prose , and ends by making useful distinctions between utopia and dystopia , which he reviews as related , and anti-utopia , which he views as opposed to the other two . |
| 14 | Broad political support will not , of course , be won merely by appealing to the inherent rationality of planning as opposed to the profit-oriented allocation of resources . |
| 15 | In the 7 years up to 1977 , 7389 families were established as opposed to the goal of 100 000 by 1974 , largely because of poor agricultural yields , in part due to the use of the wrong rice cultivar for Amazonia , problems of storage of produce and of predators and pests , in an imported technology that was too temperate-oriented . |