Example sentences of "[adv] go against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , some research-orientated academics feel strongly enough to go against the grain and form a sort of elitist under ground for their best students . |
| 2 | Such trends , however , very much go against the grain of the egalitarian principle that pervades the German university system to a far greater extent than the British one . |
| 3 | It just went against the grain . |
| 4 | ‘ Striking women always goes against the grain with me . ’ |
| 5 | Out of duty she had caved in , but it still went against the grain . |
| 6 | Although she understood why he wanted her to bend the truth , it still went against the grain . |
| 7 | The issue of whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned is also a question of judgement , and it would be somewhat unusual for a court erm perhaps erm months later to go against the policeman 's view , a view formed in the heat of the moment , where he had a firsthand erm taste of what was going on . |
| 8 | Even so , this kind of exercise probably goes against the grain for a large number of readers , who will ask " What is the point ? " |
| 9 | Congress ( I ) leaders accused the government of vindictiveness and of seeking to install its own supporters as governors , and further maintained that the actions also went against the spirit of the Constitution and against the recommendations of the Sarkaria Committee which had suggested that governors should be persons not too closely or recently involved in party politics and that governors from one political party should not be imposed on a state governed by an opposing party . |
| 10 | Really goes against the grain to see . |
| 11 | He had only been fifteen and had been given the four-ten , the so-called lady 's gun , which Rufus gathered had rather gone against the grain . |
| 12 | Sometimes the competitors jump a course of various jumps , those with a clear round will then either go against the clock — which means the person getting a clear round in the fastest time wins . |