Example sentences of "against the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not seem ever to have been satisfactorily answered why the two first operational atomic bombs were used — against the strongly voiced wishes of the leading physicists responsible for developing them — to destroy two cities instead of being deployed in the equivalent of spectacularly shooting out candles . |
| 2 | He produced works of precise scholarship , especially bibliographical works and studies of painting , and he applied his historical skills to the Dead Sea scrolls , identifying the Qumran sect with the Zealots against the generally proposed Essene identification that is now generally accepted ( 1958 , 1965 ) . |
| 3 | Stevenson himself was one of the few to speak out strenuously against the newly received wisdom — ‘ the idea that you can merchandize candidates like breakfast cereal ’ . |
| 4 | Alloa , with a 52-0 victory over Cambuslang , and Livingston , with a 14-13 win against Linlithgow , stay in Division Four but Linlithgow will have to wait for the result of Cartha Queen 's Park 's final match before their fate is known against the already relegated Lismore . |
| 5 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 6 | The official ADN news agency said that Mr Honecker told the visiting Chinese Deputy Prime Minister , Yao Yilin : ‘ Any attempt by imperialism to destabilise socialist construction , and slander its achievements , is now and in the future nothing more than Don Quixote 's futile charge against the steadily turning sails of a windmill . ’ |
| 7 | If the volume of data will permit , ‘ calling over ’ the information as received by the computer against the earliest written documents can be helpful . |
| 8 | While the duped adversary prepared to defend himself against the apparently raised weapon , the student 's left hand would draw the upside-down dagger from his belt and plunge it into his rival 's stomach . |
| 9 | Other writers have complained , particularly in discrimination cases , that conciliation officers are too willing to encourage settlement at any price and fail to provide the support an unrepresented applicant may need against the relatively advantaged position of the employer ( Gregory , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Peter Yeo himself was an old-fashioned and recognizable object , McLeish thought , seeing him against the rapidly fading light from the window . |
| 11 | Athelstan stared into the flames , half listening to a wind which had suddenly sprung up , now whining and clattering against the tightly secured shutters . |
| 12 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 13 | A promenade ran along the top , and Ruth saw Council workmen piling sandbags against the brightly painted railings . |
| 14 | As he held her from behind , Tom 's hips and thighs were solid against the thinly covered curves of her lower torso , and as usual the contact between them made her immediately weak and speechless . |
| 15 | Even if the government backs legislation ( and even more so when it does not and the Houses find themselves confronted by a Private Member 's Bill ) no Bill will ever be passed which offends against the deeply held beliefs of Members , unless amended to accommodate them . |
| 16 | Deep in the heartland of " unknown England " that was London 's East End , they tested their aura of cultural mystique against the potentially demystifying pressures of the East End world . |
| 17 | It is possible that the subject retained a single letter in the form of a visual representation of the acoustic stimulus and that he subsequently matched this representation against the visually presented probe stimulus . |
| 18 | The WRU , however , thought that it would be fairer ( and also act as an incentive ) to pitch the Wallabies against the highest placed club in the Heineken League , other than Neath and Llanelli . |
| 19 | The first sees Dawn Milligan 's Valentinos Joy , drawn favourably in trap two after winning its last two opens at Sunderland , lining up against the highly respected Belle Vue dog No Joe Soap ( trap 4 ) and Brough Park 's Movealong Sharp ( 3 ) . |
| 20 | The present road and I do n't want to get into the detail of it but relate it to environmental costs against the so called benefits , would in fact cut right through there with a viaduct and it would actually start of on something like a twenty seven foot emba er a twenty seven foot high embankment and with a fifty four deep cutting . |