Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] against [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the Empire grew in power is certain , but there were civil wars , periods where there was no Emperor , where rival Emperors warred against each other , and times when Orcs and Goblins plundered the lands . |
| 2 | By a notice of appeal dated 13 August 1991 the applicant appealed against that decision of the Divisional Court on the grounds , inter alia , that it had erred ( 1 ) in holding that there was no obligation on Lautro to give the applicant an opportunity to make representations prior to the issue of that notice ; ( 2 ) in asserting that there was a principle of law that a regulatory body should know with precision from whom they must invite representations ; ( 3 ) in perceiving any difficulty in identifying persons who should have been given advance notification , so as to be treated fairly , of any proposals by Lautro to issue a notice since such notification should at least be given to anyone who would be directly affected by such a notice and/or whose conduct was in issue ; ( 4 ) in regarding as apposite the remarks of Lord Diplock in Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190A since the non-application of the legal concept of natural justice to all persons effected by but not parties to a dispute was not and had never been in issue ; and ( 5 ) in failing to have regard to the absence of any rights of appeal according to the rules of Lautro in deciding whether the principle of natural justice applied . |
| 3 | Unlike the November general election when the BJP and the Janata Dal ( the main component of the National Front ) had generally agreed on seat adjustments in the Congress heartlands , the two parties competed against each other in many of the February state elections , often creating a three-cornered contest . |
| 4 | These characteristics militated against any assumption of agency . |
| 5 | The geologist J. W. Powell argued against this view and sought to control all the west 's water in the name of scientific management . |
| 6 | The person who hears his words and obeys them ‘ is like a man building a house , who dug deep , and laid the foundation upon rock ; and when a flood arose , the stream broke against that house , and could not shake it , because it had been well built ’ ( Luke 6:48 RSV ) . |
| 7 | A row of four metal beds stood against each wall . |
| 8 | Sayre decided against this method . |
| 9 | The teams competed against each other ( and a freak heatwave ) to make the highest profits for their branch , and the eventual winners were Ireland , with England runners-up , Wales third and Scotland fourth . |
| 10 | The observer loves knowledge for its own sake , but Jesus stood against this attitude . |
| 11 | By notice of appeal dated 12 February 1991 Mr. Pierson appealed against that refusal on the grounds , inter alia , that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in ruling that it was not unlawful for the Secretary of State to increase the tariff recommended by the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge for the purposes of determining a prisoner 's first parole review date and ( 2 ) in ruling that Mr. Pierson was not entitled to know in advance the factors which the Secretary of State proposed to take into account in fixing the tariff and to make informed representations in the light of that knowledge . |
| 12 | The local authority appealed against that part of the order by which the justices purported to direct that the guardian ad litem be allowed to have continued involvement with L. on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had no jurisdiction to attach a condition to the care order which had been agreed by the parties and approved by the justices ; ( 2 ) in the alternative , the justices had no jurisdiction to make the direction , because ( i ) it had the effect of fettering the discretion of the local authority in the exercise of its functions under section 33 of the Children Act 1989 , and ( ii ) the justices had no power to order the guardian ad litem to ‘ have continued involvement ’ once the proceedings had been concluded by the making of an order under section 41 of the Children Act 1989 ; and ( 3 ) the justices had no jurisdiction to make a direction which anticipated a further application before the court , the justices power to give directions in respect of future applications being confined to a prohibition of further specified applications under section 91(14) of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 13 | In his farewell address to the American people in January 1961 , Eisenhower warned against any attempt to seek some " miraculous solution " to the difficulties the world faced . |
| 14 | Fuchida was keen to refuel , rearm and return to Pearl Harbor to complete the destruction of the fleet but Nagumo decided against this action . |
| 15 | Two blackbirds sang against each other across a territory boundary . |
| 16 | Miss Florence and Miss Belle leant against each other , and Miss Rene , trying to quell her own laughter , admonished her sisters : ‘ Stop spluttering , you two . |
| 17 | As she walked along , the three medals on her beautiful white dress clinked against each other . |
| 18 | By notice of appeal dated 15 February 1991 Mr. Smart appealed against that refusal on the grounds that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in holding that the principles of natural justice did not endow a prisoner serving a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment with the right to know the factors ( including the views of the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice ) which the Secretary of State took into account when fixing the tariff , the right to make informed representations to the Secretary of State about the length of the tariff to be applied and the right to be provided with the reasons for the period chosen by the Secretary of State as the tariff period ; and ( 2 ) in holding that the practice of the Secretary of State in murder cases of fixing a tariff in excess of that recommended by the trial judge and/or the Lord Chief Justice was lawful . |
| 19 | In March , however , the Halifax decided against this course of action while it became apparent that the Abbey National was going to face some opposition from its members who feared that an incorporated society would be more interested in the welfare of its shareholders than of its depositors and borrowers . |
| 20 | While generally approving existing British legislation , Professor Zander cautioned against any extension of powers and points to the United States where , he said , mere suspicion could mean financial ruin for individuals and organisations while the law also allowed the seizure of all assets , not simply those related to a specific offence . |
| 21 | By notice of appeal dated 26 February 1991 Mr. Pegg appealed against that refusal on the grounds that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in rejecting the proposition that it would be Wednesbury unreasonable for the Secretary of State to fix Mr. Pegg 's tariff ( as a person serving a mandatory term of life imprisonment ) by reference to a period of retribution and deterrence which was higher than that recommended by the judiciary ; ( 2 ) in rejecting submissions that the tariff procedure was in breach of procedural propriety in that the court considered itself bound by the wrong decision of Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 ; and ( 3 ) in rejecting submissions that the decision to refuse his petition should be quashed and viewing that the tariff belonged solely to the Secretary of State to determine . |
| 22 | Next , most reckless and fierce , all the boys raced against each other . |
| 23 | Sharp fulminated against any notion of equality of opportunity while the financial disparities between authorities remained , but his writing on the subject leads one to suspect that he viewed it as a ‘ shibboleth ’ in more ways than financial ones . |
| 24 | Various factors militated against this happening with Caribbean children and I will spell them out in the chapters to come . |
| 25 | She felt a tearing pain as if Terry pushed against some kind of obstacle . |
| 26 | I suspect Greenhill was referring specifically to a dearth in the cultural analysis of policing , while his use of the duality of ‘ sides ’ reveals another parallel binary to that of ‘ cops and robbers ’ , with the police and sociology arraigned against each other in yet another of the wars which the police wage against those who defile the sanctity of their definition of the concept of order . |