Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 2 | If they were made any thicker , they would grip the batteries too tightly to allow the springs to push them against the positive contact . |
| 3 | If only he could get enough room to swing it against the Eye … |
| 4 | And his hand picked up a dropped boot to hurl it against the crackling plastic doors . |
| 5 | We found the nest with two brown spotted eggs , and the pair hovered overhead as we took a quick look , giving me a chance to photograph them against the blue Arctic sky . |
| 6 | On Dec. 26 , in an address to the nation , Ukrainian Premier Leonid Kuchma announced that direct payments would be made to the poorest members of society to protect them against the worst effects of the price rises . |
| 7 | The mammoth had a shaggy coat to protect it against the rigours of the ice ages . |
| 8 | ‘ The only way to find out would be to get the police to check it against the one he was wearing when they found him . ’ |
| 9 | The Meskhetians , another of the ‘ punished peoples ’ , had been moved from their traditional homelands near the Turkish-Soviet border in 1944 , ostensibly in order to protect them against the possibility of a German advance . |
| 10 | In those circumstances , it will be necessary to attempt to spell out the general laws , metaphysical and methodological principles , etc. involved in a paradigm in order to defend them against the alternatives involved in the threatening new paradigm . |
| 11 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 12 | Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart , because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together . |