Example sentences of "go against the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planned destruction of so much of Romania 's rural heritage seemed to go against the tenor of Ceauşescu 's out-spoken nationalism . |
| 2 | At the very least this bolting goes against the spirit of the bolting and access agreements . |
| 3 | It goes against the spirit of the age to admit this . |
| 4 | Surely it goes against the spirit of the Council ? |
| 5 | Morbidly inward , unforgiving , Cave goes against the grain of the times by being sick but refusing to be healed and integrated . |
| 6 | Seminar on Youth ( and its successors ) is a novel which in many ways goes against the grain of recent writing in Italy : quite at odds with the studied poise of Tabucchi , the selective precision of Narratori , or the deceptively balanced complexities of Calvino , Busi 's language is rich , extravagant and , to use the adjective which so irritated Gadda , ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 7 | I have to say straight away that the three star grading is highly personal decision that goes against the grain of usual standards . |
| 8 | Now clearly a teaching approach which goes against the grain of natural disposition will create needless difficulties for the learner , as I pointed out earlier in reference to translation and the focusing on form , but it does not follow that pedagogy must therefore simply accommodate that disposition . |
| 9 | Well , the first book in which Freud explicitly takes up this question in the opening pages , is his book of nineteen twenty seven , er The Future of an Illusion , and his begins , by posing the Hobbesian question , although it does n't mention Hobbes , but , it 's the fundamental point he makes , that civilization goes against the grain of human nature , and the question he asks himself is , how does er , order , morality . |
| 10 | That 's fine , I 'd had , on the subject of this boycotting timber , erm I know of two instances at least where Oxford City Council are still using tropical hardwoods , and I wonder , I mean , you know , obviously it goes against the grain of the signing of the tropical hardwood . |
| 11 | Even so , this kind of exercise probably goes against the grain for a large number of readers , who will ask " What is the point ? " |
| 12 | Often , of course , the story is so important that they have to cover it , but it goes against the grain to be sweeping up behind another paper 's scoops . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
| 14 | ‘ Striking women always goes against the grain with me . ’ |
| 15 | He is adamant that any open manifestation of religious or cultural identity at school goes against the principles of secular state education . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if the certified point goes against the defendant in the House of Lords , the unresolved questions should be remitted to the Court of Appeal , which has the experience to deal with them most effectively . |
| 17 | In a sense , the new Irish constitution was going against the spirit of this approach . |
| 18 | The Prior would eventually have to obey his superiors , no matter what his private thoughts on the matter , and he could n't see de Tracy going against the majority of England 's nobility . |
| 19 | Going against the grain of long split skirts and leather jeans , some of the most striking pieces of womenswear for winter come from Issey Miyake . |
| 20 | And they 're intervening of course here on the side of a revolt which is going against the grain of erm of certainly for Russia of course of er of of the attitudes of the eighteen erm er eighteen teens early eighteen twenties . |
| 21 | One of the few Irish studios going against the grain by attracting international acts here to record . |
| 22 | Going against the trend of static or falling sales by other newspapers , our October circulation was up a fabulous 57,403 on the same month last year . |
| 23 | In this respect they are going against the trend of owner-occupation accounting for a larger and larger proportion of the housing stock — in 1986 about 63 per cent in Great Britain , up from 26 per cent in 1947 ( Social Trends 18 , 1988 , Table 7 ; Donnison 1967 , Table 10 ) . |
| 24 | UEFA 's observer at the game is said to favour leniency for Hateley but the disciplinary committee are not renowned for going against the word of a referee . |
| 25 | In fairness to de Valera , it must be said that he opposed any attempt to incorporate the church into the apparatus of the state and in this was , as already noted , going against the form of relationship preferred by the Popes of the day . |
| 26 | Steve Norman is a real-life hero to hundreds of Rottweilers , going against the weight of public opinion to turn his own home into a Rottie rescue centre |
| 27 | er , I 'd believe in theory we could because the lease provides us or gives us the opportunity to do so , but we would not go against the wishes of the residence |
| 28 | ‘ Even you ca n't go against the wishes of a dead autocrat like Uncle , ’ replied Peter , ‘ though it 's probably your dearest ambition ! |
| 29 | That may go against the grain for some AGP leaders , who entered politics as advocates of non-violence . |
| 30 | Most bills never re-emerge from committee ; those that do may be altered beyond recognition , and during floor debate , on those lucky enough to get that far , changes are not usually made that go against the wishes of the relevant committee . |