Example sentences of "and [verb] them against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The devil-man opened his eyes and shielded them against the brightness of the sky . |
| 2 | Keep them in this position and place them against the hands of your partner so that you are in physical contact ( See Fig. 1 ) . |
| 3 | One way of doing this is to take a piece of paper and mark the position of the mounting holes and matching them against the motherboard . |
| 4 | If you look at the oxygen results and plot them against the year of coral growth we see cooler water temperatures and hence stronger trade winds during the little ice age prior to nineteen hundred . |
| 5 | His purpose in writing was to recount the human stories of all his fellow parishioners and their ancestors and to set them against the physical environment and administrative framework of the place where they lived . |
| 6 | Like the latter , Genet inverts and subverts the surface/depth binary , confirming and exploiting the connections between the paradoxical and the perverse , and turning them against the regimes , heterosexual and otherwise , which outlaw the deviant . |
| 7 | The realisation that we teach children more effectively if we understand them fully and set them against the social and cultural conditions in which they live and grow , places an expectation upon the teacher which can not be prescribed by contract . |
| 8 | Or it may abrade ; picking up silt , sand , or even rocks and grinding them against the rock beneath . |
| 9 | Sylvester 's text considers these factors and balances them against the feebleness with which Magritte might execute dull repetitions of his more popular compositions . |
| 10 | A bar chart can often be a useful format for listing tasks in a clear visual manner and showing them against the time-frame of the overall project . |
| 11 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 12 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 13 | When we add up all the indicators which show that we are moving closer to federal control , and balance them against the number which show that we are moving further away from central control , we are asking ourselves , what is the meaning of subsidiarity ? |