Example sentences of "be against [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're against large tax increases next month . |
| 2 | Later in the campaign his media advisers tried desperately to ‘ create ’ a new Dukakis by injecting comments such as ‘ I am a liberal , I am against capital punishment but I would feel like killing the person who harmed my wife and children . ’ |
| 3 | But Mr Clarke told ministers : ‘ I am against any question of raising taxes to compensate for proper control of public spending . |
| 4 | Yeah , well , thank you Chairman , I I I 'm erm er , I must admit , I 'm I I am think long and and and er think deep really , about er , you know , changes such as this , but I I also er , er have to run my own businesses , and er , I just er , I think we have experienced a water-shed , it 's coincided to some extent with the change of administration and then during the nineteen eighties , we had to a boom in this county , we had the the opportunity and I never er ever er , been against that principle , of er , of er , using our actual receipts we have hidden reserves , we we talked about the reserves of twenty nine million pounds here , for the er , erm , we have er er , assets of twenty nine million , in an earlier paper . |
| 5 | In the early stages of the war , most of Free France 's fighting , by force of circumstances , had been against other Frenchmen — in Africa , the Middle East , and elsewhere . |
| 6 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 7 | All the reason that we have been against each other is because of economism and we , we |
| 8 | Talabani , in Ankara on Oct. 26-28 for talks with Demirel and with European and United States representatives protested that both operations had been against civilian areas . |
| 9 | I 've not been against lines of communication , I 've been against excessive expenditure on such . |
| 10 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 11 | The home affairs ministry had been against American requests to relax the law that protects small shopkeepers by making it hard for supermarkets and department stores ( big importers all ) to open branches in their neighbourhoods . |
| 12 | It seems to have been against creative law that the female should be endowed with morals . |
| 13 | I am also concerned that after this debate there will be no winners not even the fox , for it will be killed it will be killed in some way or another and the feelings that are left between the two differing sides will harbour grudges and resentment for many months to come and I 'd like to also bearing in mind the comments that were made by Councillor ask how committed the people who have proposed this mo motion are against barbaric sport . |
| 14 | Now the Labour party control the city council , may I say this , that if your feelings are against barbaric sport as much as that , why do n't you use your contr , your controlling power on the city council and then ban boxing in all the city establishments , then you will show me that you mean what you are saying and that you are not just using the present position of this council for a political measure and political gain and I 'd like to also ask what this has cost the council what this has cost could be thousands . |
| 15 | Those who are against explicit teaching of reading ( e.g. , Meek et al . , |
| 16 | ‘ I am very angry with the NEC for deciding to do this , especially when they were well aware that our document in July , ‘ Oranges and Lemons ’ , spelled out why we are against Labour organising , which is party policy . ’ |
| 17 | But it 's not just local traders who are against new supermarkets . |
| 18 | The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook — and , I suspect , many other Opposition Members — are against all deterrent sentences . |
| 19 | Some teachers and psychologists are against all study which makes language , in Cazden 's term , ‘ opaque ’ ( Cazden , 1974 ) . |
| 20 | Er I ca n't , you know , there seems to be an inconsistency in so many people who are against national wars but er would say that what we need is a revolutionary situation in order to change things for the better within society . |
| 21 | Given the opinion poll results in The Guardian today , which show that a clear and growing majority of people are against further moves towards European monetary and political union , does my right hon. Friend find it rather curious that both the Liberal Democrats and the Labour party favour unilateral disarmament on the question of federalism ? |
| 22 | But many of the islanders are against any deal with PNG . |
| 23 | Our basic conceptions of political theory are against this approach . |
| 24 | In the minds of many people the word ‘ punishment ’ is equated with physical punishment : smacking , caning , slapping and the like Not surprisingly those parents who are against physical punishment in principle are quite likely to assert that they never punish their offspring . |
| 25 | The writs are against 81 firms of Lloyd 's members ' agents and against the RM Outhwaite underwriting agency itself . |
| 26 | I 'm against anti-social things I 'm afraid . |
| 27 | Not that I 'm against paid pews for those that can afford them , but in moderation . |
| 28 | I 'm against some sorts of professionalization , but it would be silly to think that the university should have nothing to do with any profession . |
| 29 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 30 | It 's not that I 'm against autobiographical writing I just generally do n't think it makes good , or true , fiction . |