Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [verb] 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 | In the foreign exchange market all currencies are quoted against the dollar therefore the number of individual rates are reduced , as market operators can quickly ascertain cross rates between various currencies . |
| 3 | where branches are silouetted against the colours of the sunset they must be rich and strong enough to help intensify the sense of the light coming through then , but not so rich that they seem to close , or start to compete with the same thing happening in the ripples that form their reflection . |
| 4 | Branches are jammed against the doors and we all retire for the night . |
| 5 | However , it would be difficult to argue that single parents are rebelling against the conventional family form in principle . |
| 6 | If he will read all our policy , he will find clearly stated our determination to ensure that rural areas are protected against the petrol price rises that the Conservatives , Labour , and my own party recognise are otherwise inevitable in due course to protect the environment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The guest house owners say the insurance companies are discriminating against the homeless . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Normally this would produce bright lines ; but because these lines are silhouetted against the rainbow background , they appear dark instead of bright . |
| 11 | Workers are risin' against the poverty and 'ardship . |
| 12 | In Guatemala , grass roots organisations are battling against the highest rates of infant mortality , malnutrition and illiteracy in Central America . |
| 13 | Professor von Hayek , a luminary much admired by the Prime Minister , writes to The Times suggesting that if attacks are made against the forces in the Falklands , Britain should retaliate on the Argentine mainland . |
| 14 | The water level is so high , it is dangerous and boats are dashed against the pier or the arches . |
| 15 | According to an office worker , ‘ some of these people in the mosques are preaching against the Christians , and some people are listening . |
| 16 | The use of n-grams requires two stages : firstly the acquisition of lists of n-grams , and secondly candidate strings are checked against the lists as part of the recognition process . |
| 17 | These candidate strings are compared against the 26-way tree of words ( figure 3.3 ) . |
| 18 | The fact may stand out in higher relief if the residuals are plotted against the fitted values . |
| 19 | Upon delivery erm , the items are checked against the original er , order . |
| 20 | Whatever charges are levelled against the Waffen-SS , no one can say that Landau chose a soft option . |
| 21 | ‘ My hands are banging against the side of the cot … |
| 22 | These issues are analysed against the various theories of evaluation . |
| 23 | Just to make sure the strikers get the message , court proceedings are begun against the shop stewards for allegedly allowing picket numbers to swell above six . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So it is important to ensure all joints are well pointed and sides are sealed against the ingress of water . |
| 29 | Generally , government publications ( in this country ) are reliable , though even civil service reports are censored against the presence of politically sensitive material , e.g. number of coloured people . |
| 30 | 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 . |