Example sentences of "it go against [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where you have got a function because you can manipulate them so much , and turn them around , and I thought , there must be points along functions , where it is , it goes against the rules , |
| 2 | It goes against the spirit of the age to admit this . |
| 3 | Surely it goes against the spirit of the Council ? |
| 4 | However it goes against the grain to tell them anything . |
| 5 | Although it goes against the grain to say this , the exercise is valuable , if indeed it has the effect of providing an accurate version of a distinguished person 's world view . |
| 6 | Often , of course , the story is so important that they have to cover it , but it goes against the grain to be sweeping up behind another paper 's scoops . |
| 7 | If we 're going to live in these fields , we 'll have to get on terms with his lot sooner or later , and it goes against the grain to hang about and admit we dare n't visit them . " |
| 8 | However , it goes against the grain to have to say this , as it is our land after all . |
| 9 | The shares are worthless , and it goes against the grain to see them still quoted , written down as they are . " |
| 10 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
| 11 | ‘ But it goes against the grain . ’ |
| 12 | It goes against the grain , does n't it ? |
| 13 | It goes against the grain terribly ! |
| 14 | That 's fine , I 'd had , on the subject of this boycotting timber , erm I know of two instances at least where Oxford City Council are still using tropical hardwoods , and I wonder , I mean , you know , obviously it goes against the grain of the signing of the tropical hardwood . |
| 15 | Flavia went on following her train of thought , ‘ I can not see him doing even a disinterested thing if it went against a rule . ’ |
| 16 | We had nothing against it for others but , having both had fairly disastrous marriages previously and having lived together in reasonable harmony for so many years , it went against the grain . |
| 17 | Yeah well I I had erm access to quite a lot of you know , quite good clothing , er both children 's and adult 's and erm while I did n't feel that it was that people should have to depend on someone else to give them clothing , erm in some ways it went against the grain to do it . |
| 18 | It was attracted to the Griffiths proposals because of their potential for promoting private services , but it went against the grain to leave local authorities with so much power , and it was this dilemma which caused the considerable delay in the government 's response to Griffiths . |
| 19 | It went against the grain but she must query the wisdom of such a suggestion . |
| 20 | It went against the grain to let the brute escape scot-free , but , with his victim disappeared , there seemed no point in calling the police . |
| 21 | In her job she was accustomed to boosting fragile egos and bolstering shaky morales , but it went against the grain to tell outright lies . |
| 22 | The return of his four hundred marks was a strong inducement , nevertheless it went against the grain with him to do homage to an Englishman . |
| 23 | It went against the grain with Hotspur to let such an illustrious company move south unchallenged into England , merely because they had not been intercepted in time to confront them on reasonably equal terms . |
| 24 | Dunbar was not the only man who knew how to use archers , even if it went against the grain to leave too much to them . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , it went against the grain . |
| 26 | So , as much as it went against the grain , she knew she had no alternative but to fit in with Ross 's plans . |
| 27 | Honest , impatient with any kind of pretence , it went against the grain to dissemble , but she could n't end their brief engagement with a phone call . |
| 28 | It went against the grain to let him win . |
| 29 | It went against the grain to meekly obey , but the look in his eyes told her in no uncertain terms that she was standing on the edge of a minefield . |
| 30 | On hearing of these terms and before Ferdinand died , Sancho refused to accept this partition on the grounds that it went against the rights of the eldest son . |