Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [to-vb] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile in Strasbourg , EC farmers were out in force to demonstrate against the deal . |
| 2 | The foam filled artificial leather earpads are large enough in area to rest against the sides of the head and enclose the ears completely without pressing against them . |
| 3 | A weighted mean of all the scaled images is then calculated , with the weighting factor being selected in order to bias against the presence of any abnormalities . |
| 4 | There is now a general awareness of the desirability of providing accurate and well-maintained inventories of the holdings of all major publicly funded institutions in order to guard against the loss of objects . |
| 5 | This enables various devices to be used in order to discriminate against the much more abundant elements and molecules which would otherwise swamp the 14 C signal . |
| 6 | Those who forget the virtues of solidarity in order to protest against the downgrading of individual agency might recall that it has been intellectuals who have been most prone to inflate the significance of individuals — particularly intellectuals — to the same degree that their theories propose universal categories and claim universal effects . |
| 7 | Hours before the US delegation 's arrival in Pristina on Aug. 29 Serbian police units using tear gas , batons and water cannon had clashed with around 5,000 Albanian demonstrators who had gathered outside the hotel where the US delegation was to hold talks with local leaders , in order to protest against the imposition of Serbian direct rule . |
| 8 | Revolution is not made by proclamations , strikes can not be declared every twenty-four hours , and in order to struggle against the bourgeoisie it is not enough to have a weekly publication or a hundred militants . |