Example sentences of "and [v-ing] against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artist 's body emerges actively resisting and struggling against the racist iconography that surrounds the imaging of the Asian woman . |
| 2 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 3 | Many of them were the scourings of the jails , and they began to be even more vile than before , burning houses , torturing people , and retaliating against the civilian population in every way they could . |
| 4 | Thus in 1981–86 the South gained 580 000 people , twice the increase recorded in 1976–81 , while the rest of Britain saw its population fall by almost 200 000 , an increase in the rate of loss compared to 1976–81 and moving against the national trend ( table 8.2 ) . |
| 5 | At its most extreme , it leads to their protesting against those who marry foreigners ( and discriminating against the resultant offspring ) . |
| 6 | I am a standard , no-frills Earthling , but Goodney , in his white suit , suntan and sliding blond hair , stood out like a pink elephant among the sin-sick funeral directors lurking and cruising against the blood-coloured walls . |
| 7 | Matilda was still ranting and raving against the absent Earl for getting himself captured . |
| 8 | Hazel dug once more , his fore-paws throwing up the soft , wet soil and slipping against the hard sides of the peg . |
| 9 | The Communist Party Central Committee complained in February 1932 : The Minority Movement is a small self-absorbed organization of leaders who have nothing to do with the real struggle of the workers and who instead of going to the workers , working among them and fighting against the reformist leaders in the Trade Unions , simply approach the workers with the invitation to take part in a highly elaborate organisational structure . |
| 10 | She was breathing fast , her breasts rising and falling against the soft cotton , and suddenly he could n't breathe , could n't sit there another moment and watch her … |
| 11 | The EQ is actually calculated in a somewhat complicated way , taking logarithms of brain weight and body weight , and standardizing against the average figures for a major group such as the mammals as a whole . |
| 12 | THE ALLEGATION that the Royal Ulster Constabulary contains an ‘ Inner Circle ’ of officers preparing private lists of IRA suspects and working against the Anglo-Irish agreement has lent a new dimension to the security force-loyalist collusion saga . |
| 13 | First Edition THE ALLEGATION that the Royal Ulster Constabulary contains an ‘ Inner Circle ’ of officers preparing private lists of IRA suspects and working against the Anglo-Irish agreement has lent a new dimension to the security force-loyalist collusion saga . |