Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea here is that you take a rather blunt er fire-polished glass pipette , and press it against a membrane . |
| 2 | She longed to turn her cheek and press it against his palm . |
| 3 | Keep them in this position and place them against the hands of your partner so that you are in physical contact ( See Fig. 1 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I would like to spend one year here , continue my studies and test myself against the best British players . ’ |
| 5 | Look at the numbers on your card and match them against those following for Game 228 Day 1 . |
| 6 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 7 | and charge it against the Caernarvon job . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Are you sure that Sergeant did n't take the shot gun from you and put it against er Mr head ? |
| 10 | He wanted to press his mouth to her softly parted lips and taste the sweetness within , he wanted to push aside the loosely tied neck of her shift and let his hand savour the warmth of her flesh , he wanted to lay her back on the bed and hold her against him as he had at the river-crossing ; he wanted her . |
| 11 | Her hands lifted to cradle his head , and hold him against her , her fingers raking through the crisp dark hair . |
| 12 | To save draining the cistern , make a bung from polyethylene sheeting and cloth and hold it against the outlet . |
| 13 | Axelrod translated all 15 strategies into one common programming language , and set them against one another in one big computer . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This Soviet specialist , whose views remain unofficial , proposed a Non-Alignment Pact for Afghanistan , ‘ which would both guarantee the West against our continued presence there and guarantee us against a Western presence ’ . |
| 16 | Corporate audits , which look at a complete business and measure it against legislation and company environmental policy . |
| 17 | With free arms we could move more and brace ourselves against the bumps on the road . |
| 18 | To disobey one 's father in traditional China would violate the filial piety integral to the whole system of mores and be seen as a threat by all ; on the other hand when the young of such a society begin to question the code and assert themselves against the old , they see a disobedience as a blow struck for all of them . |
| 19 | The joint working party 's paper correctly highlights the problem that one possible reason for non-response to hepatitis B vaccines is a pre-existing hepatitis B carrier status and suggests that non-responders should be tested for hepatitis B e antigen to identify infectious carriers and advise them against carrying out invasive procedures . |
| 20 | He was convinced that Boulton would use his ‘ superior ingenuity to improve it ’ and use it against the Americans . |
| 21 | The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules . |
| 22 | H. B. Silverman and M. J. Dunbar watched narwhals off Baffin Island and repeatedly saw males cross their tusks and strike them against each other . |
| 23 | I think you need to collect the names of the n the people who wo n't be able to come before nine or nine thirty , and weigh it against those people who will . |
| 24 | What if , by her doing nothing , they were able to convince him of her treachery and turn him against her for ever ? |
| 25 | They had to tap the source of my strength and turn it against me , until it formed a carapace , a cage that held me until they were ready to pronounce punishment . ’ |
| 26 | However , the 1986 Social Security Act froze the reduced earnings allowance ( previously called the special hardship allowance ) on retirement and offset it against earnings-related pension , thereby reducing the compensation for the impact of disablement on those over retirement age . |
| 27 | Labour , on return to power , decided to press on with the development of a new family allowance scheme , called ‘ child benefit ’ , designed to replace the older allowance , extended it to the first child in each family , and offset it against the abolition of tax allowances . |
| 28 | And if he stays behind that door ’ — the mounting gale of voices behind him was lifting him as he spoke , he wanted to jump on the factor , grab his hair and swing him against the door like a battering ram — ‘ we will fire the roof ! and smoke him out ! ’ |
| 29 | Raise the camcorder and rest it against your face so that the viewfinder eyecup is just in contact and the finder picture can be clearly seen . |
| 30 | Brudermann 's Third Army was , meanwhile , to stand fast in front of the city of Lemberg ( Lvov ) and guard it against any Russian threat that might materialize . |