Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] against each [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the calorie counts are given against each item and at the end of each meal . |
| 2 | Specific antibodies are made against each germ , and these become markers for that infection . |
| 3 | The term ‘ exchange rate' ’ relates to the price at which bank deposits ( claims ) in various currencies are exchanged against each other . |
| 4 | Underneath some fairly violent anti-war protest , the interaction of the two students ' lives are played against each other and include some explicit sex . |
| 5 | The forces of good and evil are ranged against each other in a struggle for victory , and the future depends upon the triumph of good . |
| 6 | What happens in many of the significant films that emerge after the war is that the claims of the community and the individual are set against each other , bringing together Ealing realism and Gainsborough melodrama in a tremendously fruitful , if brief and explosive , relationship . |
| 7 | Just imagine the uproar if the Football Association decreed that , from the first round proper onwards , no two non-league sides could be drawn against each other ? |
| 8 | Therefore Athens and Sparta must be played against each other , and their troops preferably used , not against each other ( which might end in a definite result ) , but against Macedon 's frontier enemies . |
| 9 | Working so positively and with such support with different people confirmed my belief that oppressions should n't be ranked against each other ; and that an EOP debate could act as a central focus around which a unity between different oppressions could be achieved while recognizing and accepting our differences . |
| 10 | By calculating the PV of various alternative investment projects they could then be ranked against each other . |
| 11 | Four elements of interest and influence need to be weighed against each other , namely the effect of the parent as the educator who is helped by the school , the school as the institutional teacher who is helped by the parent , the school as the manager and decider ( with the parent being kept informed ) and the school itself as the only " real " provider of education . |
| 12 | The system will also enable time and expenses to be recorded against each client job and produce bills for one or more jobs at any time . |
| 13 | The corporatist view suggests that the interests of all these groups must be balanced against each other by the managers . |
| 14 | There has been racing at York since roman times when horses were matched against each other about a mile to the north of the city . |
| 15 | Indeed , for the most part , slaves demonstrating boxing proficiency were pitted against each other locally at the behest of slave masters ; few trod the same paths as Richmond and Molyneux ( McPherson , 1976a , p. 123 ) . |
| 16 | The family came to be seen as a refuge from a harsh world in which men were pitted against each other in merciless competition . |
| 17 | In this light , there is no logical reason for lawyers and accountants to believe that they are pitted against each other . |
| 18 | And , according to outplacement specialists InterExec , when men and women of the same age group are pitted against each other , women are still offered jobs 25% faster than men . |
| 19 | As scored here the woodwind and horns are pitted against each other , the character of the music with its fanfare-like subject lending itself well to such treatment . |
| 20 | In the table of contents which follows , the screen number is shown against each heading . |
| 21 | In the table of contents which follows , the screen number is shown against each heading . |
| 22 | In the table of contents which follows , the screen number is shown against each heading . |
| 23 | In the table of contents which follows , the screen number is shown against each heading . |
| 24 | In the table of contents which follows , the screen number is shown against each heading . |
| 25 | A pointer is touched against each point of intersection on the grid and the digitizer records the position in the computer . |
| 26 | A common rating system is used , in which a package is analysed against each element of competence in the standards ( elements of competence are the ‘ building blocks ’ for NVQs ) . |
| 27 | Each strategy was matched against each other strategy an equal number of times . |