Example sentences of "[noun] against [art] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leigh , with the backing of his newspaper and the NUJ , brought an action against the justices in the High Court , which granted him a declaration that the policy of anonymity was " inimical to the proper administration of justice and an unwarranted and unlawful obstruction to the right to know who sits in judgment " . |
| 2 | They took part in the action against the Turks in the Aden Protectorate . |
| 3 | But some of the alleged failures may turn out to be actual failures , and the Institute may have to take disciplinary action against the firms in question . |
| 4 | Edward II decided to take action against the Scots in 1314 , but lost against Robert Bruce at the battle of Bannockburn on 24th . |
| 5 | On the broader issue of Britain 's minimal success — despite two successive triumphs against the rankings in the Maureen Connolly Trophy , at the Queen 's Club , London , and at Dallas — the captain spreads her hands , searching one empty base-line and then the other for the elusive answer . |
| 6 | On the broader issue of Britain 's minimal success — despite two successive triumphs against the rankings in the Maureen Connolly Trophy , at the Queen 's Club , London , and at Dallas — the captain spreads her hands , searching one empty base-line and then the other for the elusive answer . |
| 7 | McArty led the third campaign against the Iguanoids in the Koftan war . ’ |
| 8 | After they had been settled in Aquitaine the Visigoths were relatively loyal to the Roman state , although in 422 they deserted the Romans during a campaign against the Vandals in Spain . |
| 9 | On their return they received names in recognition of their war service , ‘ Maude ’ being named after Lt Gen Sir Stanley Maude , who revived the faltering campaign against the Turks in Mesopotamia and led the British forces into Baghdad in March , 1917 . |
| 10 | GRAHAM TAYLOR has laid his England future at the uncertain feet of Nigel Clough and John Barnes against the Americans in Boston tonight . |
| 11 | GRAHAM TAYLOR has laid his England future at the uncertain feet of Nigel Clough and John Barnes against the Americans in Boston tonight . |
| 12 | Dreams of Arab nationalism raised by the Arab revolt against the Ottomans in the First World War , and then turned instead into the reality of separate states , clearly supervised by the two major European victors . |
| 13 | ‘ I remember vividly being on night guard prior to the morning executions when some prisoners sang and rattled their tin mugs against the bars in some form of defiance . |
| 14 | For myself , forgetting the continuous battle against the elements in which Venturous acquitted herself well , it was a good time . |
| 15 | The plaintiff , a local authority , brought an action for damages for libel against the defendants in respect of certain newspaper articles which made allegations in relation to share dealings involving the investment of moneys from the local authority 's superannuation fund , sometimes by a complex series of deals , in companies connected with or controlled by a businessman . |
| 16 | A senior partner of the defendants endorsed the articled clerk 's advice : the wife later went to other solicitors , and proceedings were issued claiming damages for negligence against the defendants in handling the financial provision side of her divorce . |
| 17 | But this diversity meant something specific : protection against the interruptions in supply and the price shocks which the miners and the oil sheikhs had most recently provided . |
| 18 | Keeps bouncing back : dumped by the Chicago Cubs in 1985 after injury , but was reprieved by Pittsburgh ; lasted a mere 18 pitches against the Cubs in game two of the NL play-offs but came back to win the decisive game five . |
| 19 | The outgoing President , Alan García Pérez , described the raid as " the greatest blow against the guerillas in 10 years " . |
| 20 | Many of those who fled across the Danube became graničari ( frontiersmen ) in the military frontier zone set up by the Habsburgs ; others manned fortresses in Dalmatia , combining defence against the Turks in the interior with piracy in the Adriatic . |
| 21 | A major problem in lexical access concerns the registration of the input descriptions , whether they be phonemes , diphones or syllables against the representations in the lexicon . |
| 22 | Although the policy review will be endorsed by the conference , giving Neil Kinnock the freedom to go on to the offensive against the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election , there are a number of areas of potential conflict . |
| 23 | Following Aelfwine 's death in the battle of the Trent against the Mercians in 679 or 680 ( HE IV , 21 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) ( see below , p. 117 ) , Deira was ruled from then on directly by the Bernicians ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 24 | Later I understood why our national hero was so unpopular : he was the Tory minister who had called out the troops against the miners in the 1920s , an action much more pertinent in our mining town than the defeat of Hitler . |
| 25 | We would hope that by doing this we 'd actually mobilize the whole country to get down into London and to protest at the House of Commons against the closures in the Health Service . |
| 26 | AUBREY BOOMER was the last surviving member of the Great Britain and Ireland Ryder Cup team which contested the first match against the Americans in 1927 . |
| 27 | THE FRENCH love to lay on the style and their over-the-top preliminaries - world 's biggest scrum , Un Show Laser — to this week 's Bicentenary match against the Lions in Paris gave the evening a sense of occasion which the rugby itself also justified . |
| 28 | This easement does not by any means apply to all developers and is in any case temporary : setting off the charge against the claims in this way will not be possible when the fund has been distributed and the money has been spent or locked up in some investment . |
| 29 | A Bible-based Christian will want to check this query against the ways in which God has worked in the past . |
| 30 | When they went on strike against the landlords in 1908 , blood flowed in Parma . |