Example sentences of "[verb] against the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a founder member of the France-Iraq Friendship Association , and within the Socialist Party ( PS ) he led the small " socialism and republic " faction which had voted against the government in the parliamentary vote on the Gulf war on Jan. 16 [ see above ] ; the existence of this faction , together with size of France 's Arab community and the strength of its pacifist movement , had been seen as domestic factors influencing Mitterrand 's eleventh-hour diplomatic initiatives . |
| 2 | However , Dib had reportedly voted against the treaty in a mid-May Cabinet meeting . |
| 3 | Cusack headed against the post in the last minute . |
| 4 | Cusack headed against the post in the last minute . |
| 5 | She was a large , cheerful lady with bad varicose ulcers which she was constantly banging against the furniture in her house on non-Varicose Vein Clinic days . |
| 6 | Hers is a heartening , moving and ultimately triumphant story — a little victory won against the tide in the long , heart-breaking battle to save our wilderness world . |
| 7 | Two years later they successfully appealed against the ruling in the High Court … and now Mr Gilberthorpe 's been told he 's too late bring the case to court again . |
| 8 | Darling 's 711 tour runs ( 47.40 ) included centuries against Rhodesia and Transvaal , and he was McCabe 's partner during that batsman 's sensational innings at Johannesburg when the South Africans appealed against the light in self-defence . |
| 9 | Bonn , January 26 : Demonstrators in Germany carry PLO flags on a 150,000-strong protest against the war in the Gulf . |
| 10 | ‘ We have moved against the trend in opencast mining , which has tended to shrink in response to the general recession and hiatus in the underground coal mining industry . |
| 11 | all losses suffered by and claims made against the Carrier in consequence of loss of or damage to property caused by or arising out of the carriage by the Carrier of Dangerous Goods whether or not declared by the Trader as such : |
| 12 | However , the other category of liability for personal injury or death which the party in default can seek to pass on to the innocent party is that relating to claims made against the party in default by third parties , who have suffered death or personal injury by reason of the negligence of the party in default . |
| 13 | It may be true that Satan and the demons plot against the church in hellish councils , but we do not really know . |
| 14 | But Raskolnikov 's nightmare calls to mind one that did , namely The Possessed , while the specific link between ‘ as men possessed ’ ( besnovatimi ) and The Possessed ( Besi , literally The Devils ) is inescapably obvious — just as the word ‘ Socialism ’ which Dostoevsky has written against the beast in Revelation coming out of the earth with horns like a lamb and speech like a dragon shows the general way his thoughts are tending . |
| 15 | He slid off the couch , put on his sock and shoe carefully and limped out , leaving her slumped against the couch in despair . |
| 16 | She could not speak , but her lips shaped against the pulse in his throat : ‘ Amen ! ’ |
| 17 | Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell . |
| 18 | The Foreign Office says he 's decided not to appeal against the sentence in the hope that he 'll get home more quickly . |
| 19 | Information from Soviet and Japanese military intelligence indicates that Kim organised several hundred guerrillas and fought against the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria . |
| 20 | Three fingers whispered against the skin in the V of her blouse , reaching inside to move within the lace edge of her bra , pushing beneath the confinement of it with greater insistence , hot now and seeking more intimacy than that first feather-light touch had allowed . |
| 21 | The data on applications at the head of this section can be checked against the information in Figure 2.4 for the Polytechnic as a whole . |
| 22 | She swallowed , struggling against the tightness in her throat , the sobs that threatened to overwhelm her . |
| 23 | There were three of them , two women and a man , all old and white-haired , each with a shepherd 's crook of a walking-stick propped against the pew in front . |
| 24 | The cutlers rioted against the system in 1756 . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , thousands of people have marched against the violence in Ulster . |
| 26 | On the other hand , if the certified point goes against the defendant in the House of Lords , the unresolved questions should be remitted to the Court of Appeal , which has the experience to deal with them most effectively . |
| 27 | Instead of reacting against the bias in their chosen paper , readers tended ( at the margin ) to defend their paper ( if it was biased against their party ) or even to glory in its bias ( if it was biased in favour of their party ) . |
| 28 | Neither of these was alleged against the defendant in this case . |
| 29 | He was well wrapped against the cold in a navy-blue gaberdine coat , a tartan scarf thrown round the neck , and his hands were covered by heavy black gloves . |
| 30 | A curious tramplike person wrapped against the weather in an old shawl . |