Example sentences of "standing [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masked by the apparently careless tumble of examples ( ‘ etc. , etc. ’ ) is a calculated insistence on the sore spot , on what Shatov in the notebooks calls social unsteadiness , a small but virulent secular profanity standing over against the noble , perhaps the noblest sequence in The Possessed , where Marie Shatov returns to her husband to give birth to another man 's child . |
| 2 | The knowledge with which it deals originates outside us ; the concept of nature standing over against us is not lightly to be abandoned . |
| 3 | But we do respect her bravery in standing up against a dreadful regime . |
| 4 | Gilbert and Frye were standing up against the glass panes of the reception area , staring out into the storm-ravaged night . |
| 5 | Gust becos I cud not spel It did not mean I was daft When the boys in school red my riting Some of them laffed But now I am the dictater They have to rite like me Utherwise they can not pas Ther GCSE Some of the girls wer ok But those who laffed a lot Have al bean rownded up And have recintly bean shot The teecher who corrected my speling As not been shot at al But four the last fifteen howers As bean standing up against a wal He has to stand ther until he can spel Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way I think he will stand ther forever I just inventid it today |
| 6 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 7 | Erm , and it means to , standing up against , erm , rejecting , oh no , I do n't think rejecting is is |
| 8 | But , but I mean I suppose if we take sense of standing up against , it 's saying , and it stands up against , and it withstands against many sicknesses and evils and inserted into the middle of that , and succoureth it by virtue , so it helps by its goodness to withstand sicknesses and evils . |
| 9 | She standing up against the racial stereotype with purple hair . |
| 10 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 11 | This is particularly the case when as here , they are preserved in dark shales , the white calcite of the animal 's skeleton standing out against the background . |
| 12 | It was a large split-level home , with unexpected staircases going , it seemed , in all directions , their wrought-iron banisters standing out against the pale-yellow broadloom which covered both stairs and floors throughout the house . |
| 13 | Bertrand Russell , who took over the chairmanship of the NCF when Allen was jailed , later remarked : ‘ In some men the habit of standing out against the herd had become so ingrained that they could not co-operate with anybody about anything . ’ |
| 14 | Even while Dick was lowering Martin to the ground , he had his head turned in the direction of the dark blur standing out against the night and it was only a matter of seconds before he raised himself and his gun towards it . |
| 15 | The dispute was being regarded as a trial of strength by the labour movement ( in a nationwide context of increased union militancy ) and the solidarity of all the trades in the printing industry impressed the employers still standing out against the men 's memorial . |
| 16 | Across the river , standing out against a background of emerging green vegetation , was a large bird with marbled black and brown cryptic plumage and a long bill . |
| 17 | This might have seemed merely the occupational hazard of the self-indulgent restaurateur , but for a manic edge contributed by the tightly-curled crop of hair , the thin cigar drooping from his wide mouth and the garishness of a turquoise tie standing out against a black suit and matching shirt . |
| 18 | It 's the nicest site around and from the surrounding countryside you 'd have seen the white mounds of the burial sites standing out against the sky , right against the heavens |