Example sentences of "against a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November 1990 he had been arrested in connection with a protest by women in Riyadh against a ban on women drivers . |
| 2 | For example , this is a passage of interpretive description of a Van Gogh self-portrait : ‘ … his emaciated , luminous head with its burning eyes set off against a whirlpool of darkness . |
| 3 | Pechorin is a cold-hearted , stylish fatalist , experimentalist , existentialist and divided man , a traveller , gambler , heart-breaker and forgetter of old friends , who loves to ride ‘ a spirited horse through the long grass against a desert wind ’ . |
| 4 | The protestant refugees , inhabitants , and garrison of the city , which was built deliberately with a wall lest a catholic rebellion should ever occur , held the city for fifteen weeks against a poorly equipped catholic Irish army led by James II , the exiled king . |
| 5 | In 1976 the Lord Chief Justice , dismissing Bass Charrington 's appeal against a proposal to ‘ open up ’ the interior at the Romans Hotel in Southwick , Sussex , declared that it might be ‘ undesirable in the public interest to see more public bars disappearing and more mergers of public and saloon bars of the kind in question here … ’ |
| 6 | Espaliers are trained flat against a fence or wall , or freestanding along wires . |
| 7 | ‘ I know what a slow comfortable screw is , Francis , ’ said Jay in her best Mae West , ‘ but I ai n't never done it against a wall . ’ |
| 8 | A rare sneak preview of summer in the city , ice-cream regency houses linked with solid tree silhouettes against a sky as blue as blue . |
| 9 | She flings her great head at one of them and rests against a skull . |
| 10 | Training should be as specific as possible and so for karateka I recommend either shadow boxing against a mirror , or working out on a light punch bag . |
| 11 | He looked up at the horses , shading his eyes against a sting of sun from the west . |
| 12 | This may look like an easy knock-down argument against a silly theory which nobody has ever seriously held : but what is true of mental pictures would seem to be true of any kind of mental representing process which encodes sensations in some determinate form . |
| 13 | In the former category we have , to take Kant 's example , watching a ship sailing upstream : here an object moves against a more-or-less stable background from ( say ) left to right . |
| 14 | Children played a game against a second experimenter for chocolate . |
| 15 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 16 | ‘ If you 've just joined us , ’ the commentator 's voice droned , ‘ there 's no score in this all important match but England can be admired for holding their own , down to ten men and against a Moroccan team that 's used to the sort of heat … ’ |
| 17 | Looked at from Scotland , it is sadly tied up with Thatcherism , which , we hope , is something that will pass , since it goes against a better , more basic feeling which is still there . |
| 18 | Beating the Ingham family monopoly was Michael Calvert ( Yorks ) who won the 16's title 7–6 4–6 7–5 against a tiring Richard Stamp ( Lincs ) . |
| 19 | All the small mouldings were shaped by an overhead router either against a fence or with a pin ( for the so-called great arch ) . |
| 20 | The front arches are not repeated on the back because a credence table is a side table and will always be against a wall . |
| 21 | Imagine my rage when I leaned too hard against a workpiece and bent the pencil . |
| 22 | For every four windows on a Mark 3 standard-class coach there are four and a h–f bays of seats , only the end bays matching the windows and succeeding bays being more tightly spaced so that some passengers are seated against a blank wall . |
| 23 | Ingleborough — the ‘ Monarch of the Dales ’ — is a noble hill , especially when seen from Whernside 's Twistleton Scars across the deep trench of Chapel-le-Dale to the west , with its features etched against a clear , blue sky ; then it looks as fine a peak as any in the country . |
| 24 | Policies differ , but let's look first at the basic type which covers buildings and/or contents against a set list of risks such as fire , theft , subsidence and earthquakes . |
| 25 | The arguments of Tallis and Scholes against a major aspect of poststructuralist theory and practice should be attended to on the level at which they are advanced . |
| 26 | It is hard to speak against a situation that makes everyone happy , but one has to say it represents a form of intellectual inflation that is just as pernicious in its way as monetary inflation . |
| 27 | as if 24-17 and derisive chants of ‘ Easy , easy ’ were not bad enough , this humiliation was against a side who have made a wretched start to the season — a week earlier Pontypool had given them a 35-6 going-over — and were short of at least half-a-dozen first-choice players . |
| 28 | On 6 June , a demonstration against a Chinese bank in the tough , working class district of Mongkok turned into a night of localised rioting . |
| 29 | In the third abortion case before the Supreme Court , the state of Illinois is appealing against a federal appeals court decision to quash a law which obliged abortion clinics to be designed and equipped like small hospitals . |
| 30 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton MP , Scottish Office environment minister , said it would be ‘ additional ’ to the public road building programme and could start by 1992 or 1993 — against a delay until the next century if it had to await public funding . |