Example sentences of "[vb pp] against it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By convention , the government of the day resigns or requests a dissolution if a motion of no confidence is carried against it in the House of Commons . |
| 2 | This means that claims by UK citizens under the Convention must always be pursued to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to obtain judgment , with the result that the UK has had the highest number of judgments made against it by the European Court of Human Rights for one or more violations of the Convention 's terms . |
| 3 | ‘ It had a lot stacked against it at the beginning , ’ agony aunt Claire Rayner said last night . |
| 4 | Shearson Lehman analyst David Readerman , who raised his Microsoft rating to a ‘ strong buy ’ following the court ruling , said the company could easily adapt its Windows programme if the judge ruled against it on the remaining issues . |
| 5 | An early restart had been planned , but the Inspectorate ruled against it on the grounds that there was still a risk that welds in the pressure vessels could fail as they cool , becoming brittle and eventually breaking , with the risk of a serious accident due to loss of coolant . |
| 6 | In February a US district court rejected a petition by Westinghouse Electric Corp. , a US firm alleged to have used bribery in 1976 to win the contract to construct the Bataan power station , to dismiss the case filed against it by the Philippine government . |
| 7 | Price Waterhouse 's Australian arm has pledged to ‘ vigorously defend ’ what could amount to a multi-million dollar claim issued against it over the 1989 audit of failed textile company Linter Group Ltd . |
| 8 | It is understood he initially thought of going there at the weekend but was advised against it by the police . |