Example sentences of "go against the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm really trying to go against the whole clubby/tribey feel to clothes we have here , though . ’ |
| 2 | Other ideas to free the town 's roads include contraflow lanes , which allow buses to go against the main traffic flow , and giving buses priority at busy junctions and traffic lights to speed up the service . |
| 3 | This goes against the general trend of the rest of the survey ( which suggests that these groups are less well informed and less accurately informed about credit ) . |
| 4 | This goes against the general rule that says the bigger the band , the longer and more excruciatingly dull , the soundcheck . |
| 5 | That is just one reason why TODAY will not weep if tonight 's vote goes against the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | This is a decidedly minority view and goes against the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence . |
| 7 | The paper goes against the American grain in being an elitist institution in a country that extols the common man . |
| 8 | Whether or not there is a God , none of the great religious traditions can be saddled with intentionally fostering such anthropomorphism , for it goes against the fundamental tenets of their faith . |
| 9 | ‘ Players will be encouraged to go to the ground when tackled to form a ruck , which goes against the whole purpose of staying on your feet to play rugby . ’ |
| 10 | It goes against the very nature of man today . |
| 11 | All dodging of problems — whether out of laziness or exhaustion — goes against the Holy Spirit . |
| 12 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 13 | Going against the totalitarian goal of ‘ being absorbed in the state ’ ( Sarti ) . |
| 14 | In not believing such relations to be wrong , conservatives are going against the whole ethos of the modern world , in which it has increasingly come to be held that humans should be treated as equals . |
| 15 | All did not go against the Key Company , however ; prisoners were taken at some of the incidents , some carrying vital information . |
| 16 | In addition French ( 1986b ) found that various characteristics which go against the stereotyped image of the physiotherapist are stigmatised by that profession ; for example , to be very overweight was considered more of a barrier than blindness or needing to use a wheelchair . |
| 17 | The Financial Times , on the other hand , which is the City paper and which has a solid Conservative readership ( see Fig. 4.3b , Chapter 4 ) , prides itself on its critical edge in pursuing a business ideology which might , and often does , go against the Conservative Party 's views . |
| 18 | This went against the Communist Party 's well known Euro-Communist stand . |
| 19 | Only the loss of Darlington , where Mr Michael Fallon was comprehensively defeated to become one of eight unseated ministers , went against the regional pattern of swings to Labour far lower than that predicted by the polls . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , Judge Edward Garrison went against the general feeling of his colleagues and gave the idea its trial run . |
| 21 | Within the general framework of his attack on the humanistic Hegelian tradition of Western Marxism , Althusser 's specific objection to Sartre 's attempt to mediate Marxism with existential subjectivity was that such a move went against the crucial discoveries which had founded Marxism in the first place ; in an extension of Lévi-Strauss ' argument , he maintained that the notion of ‘ man ’ that Sartre used was derived from a particular ideological definition of the human subject which represses Marx 's insight that the human subject is not the centre of history , together with Freud 's that the subject is not centred in consciousness . |
| 22 | As it happened all his discoveries went against the Peripatetic views , and as he advanced so the attacks on him grew , largely because the lesser ones among opponents saw their cosy lives of repetitions of dogma in danger . |
| 23 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 24 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |