Example sentences of "[be] [verb] against the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newly restored Japanese Emperor opened the line , and thereby scotched the bitter religious opposition that had been aroused against the building of railways . |
| 2 | Workers are risin' against the poverty and 'ardship . |
| 3 | In fact , one of the reasons God is so concerned that we do not involve ourselves in premarital and extramarital relations is so that we will never feel we are competing against the skill and ability of another lover . |
| 4 | As mentioned earlier , pay , hours and grade are validated against the pay schedule entered on the previous screen . |
| 5 | A mop and pail are propped against the wall , but there is nothing else of interest or value here . |
| 6 | The technique has proved reliable ( Geffen and Caudrey , 1981 ) and has been validated against the assessment of language laterality by means of unilateral ECT ( Geffen , Traub and Stierman , 1978 ) and , in four cases , against the Wada sodium amytal test ( Wale and Geffen , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | It 's got 4 terminals , which are pressed against the body of an opponant and a trigger releases the current . |
| 8 | He moved uncomfortably and his chair scraped against the dusty edge of the grate , dislodging a small carved piece of stone that had been propped against the hearth . |
| 9 | These are checked against the hotel 's records . |
| 10 | When goods are received into the stores , cellars , linen rooms or other sections , they are checked against the delivery note and a copy of the order and entered in the goods received book . |
| 11 | Now she waited as he probed and cut and then compared what had been exposed against the diagram spread across the double page . |
| 12 | Normally this would produce bright lines ; but because these lines are silhouetted against the rainbow background , they appear dark instead of bright . |
| 13 | For door frames , the best choices are metal or plastic extrusions containing brush or flexible wiper seals , which are compressed against the door face when it is closed . |
| 14 | If an offence has been committed against the person , the police can of course bring charges and , under certain conditions , make an arrest . |
| 15 | ‘ My hands are banging against the side of the cot … |
| 16 | It is too late to register a pending action if a bankruptcy petition has been presented against the husband ; in Re Flint ( 1992 ) The Times 16 July it was held that a transfer of the matrimonial home by order of the court in matrimonial proceedings to the wife in the period between the presentation of a bankruptcy petition against the husband and the bankruptcy order was void . |
| 17 | The ironing , altering , re-tailoring had all been done against the clock and pushed through only because of the tyranny of Miss D'Arcy . |
| 18 | Preservationists such as Camporese and Valadier are seen against the background of the various commissions , and individual buildings ' histories are scrutinised . |
| 19 | Now , I think what we 've got to try and ensure is that , that rural counties like Shropshire get a fair crack at that money as well , and we need to be starting to develop and I 'll touch on this if I come , gentlemen , when I come on to development strategy , we need to be developing a regeneration strategy for the county , so that bids to the government for funding from the regeneration budget and from this , from the regen from the er , the single regeneration agency , er , are seen against the background of a cohesive strategy , and we , I think we will be much more successful when we go for government money bids , on that particular basis . |
| 20 | Figures 6.4 — 6.6 show histogram distributions for the total number of derived word-strings when the input utterances are matched against the lexicon . |
| 21 | Accordingly , when either mid or mixed input utterances are matched against the lexicon , they are first expanded into all possible phonemic representations and each such representation is matched against the tree as described above . |
| 22 | Figures 7.1 — 7.3 show histogram distributions for the total number of derived word-paths when the input utterances are matched against the lexicon . |
| 23 | For example , since , , , , , and are reduced forms of a/her , he , had/would , am , is and who , the short word parsings shown in Fig. 7.4 at the end of this chapter can be derived from associated and Missouri farms when the input utterances are matched against the lexicon . |
| 24 | When the door burst open he sat back on his heels and almost toppled over , and the child straightened up from where she had been thrust against the bed . |
| 25 | The water level is so high , it is dangerous and boats are dashed against the pier or the arches . |
| 26 | The bad news is of course that our successful amalgamation policy has been made against the background of falling union membership . |
| 27 | Perhaps in an effort to justify this simplification , some instructors have been warning against the use of the rudder to stop the yaw if a wing drops at the stall . |
| 28 | An appeal has been lodged against the refusal of planning permission to convert buildings at the former Jesse Harold factory , Dale Road , Shildon , into flats and houses . |
| 29 | People can not be protected by the law when they are conspiring against the government . ’ |
| 30 | To achieve this recognition , the modules in these areas have been matched against the Lead Bodies ' standards and amended where necessary . |