Example sentences of "against an " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued against an excessively formalist type of analysis of art , by pointing out how everyday emotions and ideas also affect the viewer of paintings or sculpture . |
| 2 | Here is a passage about a picture by Judy Rifka : ‘ In Square Dress , a dancer , seen from above , is set off against an exuberant field of abstract color patches and architecturally evocative lines and circles . |
| 3 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 4 | Even if you are drawn against an élite performer who has a great deal of experience , the fact that you may be younger , hungrier , fitter could be to your advantage . |
| 5 | But it is another matter to use these ideas , or rather the names of their originators , primarily as weapons against an insular establishment . |
| 6 | Kevin Drinkell , the Rangers striker , will join Coventry City today for £800,000 and make his debut against an old club , Grimsby , in the Littlewoods Cup on Wednesday . |
| 7 | ‘ What people never take into account about the M25 is that it is also designed as a defence barrier against an invading force . |
| 8 | The EAT , by a majority , allowed the Secretary of State 's appeal against an industrial tribunal 's decision to award the applicant the sum of £4,513.50 to be paid by the Secretary of State out of the redundancy fund under section 106 of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 . |
| 9 | Yesterday , he produced his second extraordinary escape act in succession by coming from behind to win 10-15 , 9-15 , 15-13 , 15-12 , 15-10 , against an opponent who has been in both of the last two world title-winning teams . |
| 10 | Since Mr Lawson has long been in favour of a stable exchange rate — and since industry has enthusiastically supported him , by expressing its enthusiasm for membership of the European Monetary System — it is ill-placed to argue against an increase in base rates at a time when sterling was threatening to fall below three marks , although the Confederation of British Industry has predictably grumbled that the rise was unnecessary . |
| 11 | Unless those wholly or almost wholly unable to travel any distance without a vehicle ( bearing in mind the current state of the pavements ) were exempt from such a charge , it would amount to gross discrimination against an already disenfranchised group . |
| 12 | Gooch launches the partnership today and will probably stick with it for Friday 's second and final warm-up match against an Air India XI . |
| 13 | The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by the appellant , who was not named as a party to the action , against an order that he was liable to pay £861 with costs . |
| 14 | The impact of the big price appears to have spilled over into Sotheby 's yesterday where a Timurid brass jug inlaid with gold and silver , dating from 1495-96 , was bid to £60,500 against an estimate of £8,000 to £12,000 . |
| 15 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 16 | A ninth or tenth-century carved stone panel depicting the Seven Mother-Goddesses was sold for £7,700 against an estimate of £15,000-£18,000 . |
| 17 | A block of four 1918 24-cent stamps featuring an early aeroplane , from a famous sheet of 100 on which the aeroplane was printed upside down , sold for $1.1m ( £705,128 ) , against an estimate of $600,000-$800,000 , to an American broadcasting executive . |
| 18 | You can appeal against an enforcement notice on a number of grounds . |
| 19 | Such comparisons are often difficult due to lack of available data , and comparisons are often made by measuring GNP per capita in local currency and using the exchange rate of the currency against an international standard ( typically US $ ) . |
| 20 | Callaghan , therefore , decided against an early election . |
| 21 | Was a meeting of world Christianity a propaganda design against an atheist Soviet union ? |
| 22 | By being clearly against an unpopular figure , Mrs Thatcher has usually rallied public opinion to her side . |
| 23 | Callinicos is able to set the claims of such postmodern advocates as Charles Jencks and Linda Hutcheon against an analysis of Modernism ( predicated largely on that of Eugene Lunn ) in order to demonstrate that the latter is a good deal more complex in respect of its characteristic conceptions of the subject , expression , reflexion etc , than the former are wont to have it . |
| 24 | Ealing 's films of the 1950s also deal with communities , not torn apart by inner rivalries but bonded in solidarity against an external aggressor . |
| 25 | It might be argued that historically the Maronite Christians have done much to bring this near calamity on themselves , that Gen Aoun is only the latest , probably the last , in a long line of revolts against an Arab and Mulsim environment to which this most stiff-necked of Arab minorities refuses to adapt itself . |
| 26 | That he won a points decision against the Californian Mark Wills at Wembley will give them some reassurance that the British heavyweight champion could give a reasonable account of himself against an opponent who will not crumple easily . |
| 27 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
| 29 | Critics of the Hughes style fulminate against an imagined cosiness , a certainty about the nuclear family , the facility with which tenderness always binds childish wounds . |
| 30 | Lord Justice Parker together with Lord Justice Bingham and Sir John Megaw , dismissed Mr Cameron-Webb 's appeal against an earlier ruling . |