Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [v-ing] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of ‘ The Food of the Gods ’ the giants are fighting against the little people , for freedom . |
| 2 | But Peterson contends : ‘ By the early thirties , gentle waves were washing against the hull of organized baseball ’ ( 1970 , p. 175 ) . |
| 3 | It was high tide ; the wild , white-crested waves were dashing against the parade , sending clouds of spray into the street . |
| 4 | However , it would be difficult to argue that single parents are rebelling against the conventional family form in principle . |
| 5 | Thus for restrictive practices the burden of proof lies on the companies to show that they are acting in the public interest : in contrast , the legislation on monopolies is more open-minded , requiring the MMC to make the case that companies are acting against the public interest . |
| 6 | The guest house owners say the insurance companies are discriminating against the homeless . |
| 7 | In not believing such relations to be wrong , conservatives are going against the whole ethos of the modern world , in which it has increasingly come to be held that humans should be treated as equals . |
| 8 | And here was the waterfront , not of the river , but a grimy offshoot of the Danube Canal , apparently little used , though a couple of moored barges were bumping against the ramshackle wooden pier . |
| 9 | Workers are risin' against the poverty and 'ardship . |
| 10 | In Guatemala , grass roots organisations are battling against the highest rates of infant mortality , malnutrition and illiteracy in Central America . |
| 11 | The US troops were struggling against the Viet Cong . |
| 12 | My dogs were straining against the sledge now and yelping as if badly hurt . |
| 13 | According to an office worker , ‘ some of these people in the mosques are preaching against the Christians , and some people are listening . |
| 14 | At this point the strings were flapping against the fingerboard , and although this kind of treatment played havoc with the tuning it soon stabilised . |
| 15 | The Liverpool Coastguard say there were particular problems on Saturday because some rafts were fighting against the tide . |
| 16 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 17 | When the main doors were thrown open , there was a general rush of men and women in all directions , carrying umbrellas and jumping over the pews to get to the very nearest available seats , and almost immediately every seat in the church was occupied and great crowds were standing against the wall in the back galleries . |
| 18 | ‘ My hands are banging against the side of the cot … |
| 19 | Her eyelids were closing against the sheer enormity of the prospect . |
| 20 | A group of men were leaning against the bar , their backs to the doorway . |
| 21 | Mrs McAlorum underlined the damage done to the party through the connection with the Tories , particularly in areas like Lanarkshire where voters were fighting against the worst ravages of the recession . |
| 22 | A number of factors are conspiring against the South Africans and they profess to be having real problems with the heat and humidity , exacerbated by the fact that Trinidad is experiencing its highest temperatures for a year with bushfires bright in the hills around the Port of Spain area . |
| 23 | The others were leaning against the wall , just waiting for me to finish . |
| 24 | On a gleaming fibreglass deck a girl with waist-length chestnut hair and tiny navy shorts was reclining against the cockpit , calling something to a man on a neighbouring craft . |
| 25 | An elderly man in flat cap and going-out clothes was leaning against the fence , stick hanging from a crooked elbow . |
| 26 | Worse — much worse — three of the cows were standing against the gate , their horned heads thrust over it . |
| 27 | In other words , Ginsberg and his followers were campaigning against the establishment , the Luce family who controlled Time and Life , school , parents , the police — anyone in authority just as , in Britain it was emanating from Liverpool , the Marquee and Carnaby Street . |
| 28 | By the turn of the century , some botanists were protesting against the excessive speculations of the dispersal theorists , arguing that in many cases those species with the highest dispersal power were not the most widely distributed . |