Example sentences of "going against the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sense , the new Irish constitution was going against the spirit of this approach . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One of the few Irish studios going against the grain by attracting international acts here to record . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |