Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , but I mean I suppose if we take sense of standing up against , it 's saying , and it stands up against , and it withstands against many sicknesses and evils and inserted into the middle of that , and succoureth it by virtue , so it helps by its goodness to withstand sicknesses and evils . |
| 2 | A realist approach lays stress on the belief that the world has an existence independent of any observer ; that it stands over against us as an entity in its own right . |
| 3 | Joffe 's pious vision of man 's inhumanity to man all comes together in Pauline Collins ' clinic : it squares off against the local mafia , saves lepers etc . |
| 4 | But each time this has been tried , it comes up against the apparently irreconcilable rivalries of the three figures who have dominated the French right for the past 15 years — Jacques Chirac , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and ( to a lesser extent ) Raymond Barre . |
| 5 | The company claims that IBM is now the only competitor it comes up against on every deal . |