Example sentences of "it [vb -s] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it goes against the grain to tell them anything . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It goes against the very nature of man today . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It goes against the spirit of the age to admit this . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | Surely it goes against the spirit of the Council ? |
| 8 | However , it goes against the grain to have to say this , as it is our land after all . |
| 9 | 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 , |
| 10 | The shares are worthless , and it goes against the grain to see them still quoted , written down as they are . " |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
| 12 | ‘ But it goes against the grain . ’ |
| 13 | Whether or not there is a God , none of the great religious traditions can be saddled with intentionally fostering such anthropomorphism , for it goes against the fundamental tenets of their faith . |
| 14 | It goes against the grain , does n't it ? |
| 15 | It goes against the grain terribly ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When you get to the top of each leg it 's vital to remember the inside where it rubs against the chest , which can often matt . |
| 18 | One of the advantages of such a card over paper qualifications and former GNC registration badges is the protection it offers against the possibility of fraudulent use . |
| 19 | In many of the orchids , the bees slip and fall through the flower or into a trap , for example in Stanhopea candida in Amazonia , pollination is by Eulaema moscaryi , which ‘ falls through ’ the flower after collecting the scent ; in so doing , it brushes against the pollinia and in the next flower these are lodged in the stigmatic cavity . |
| 20 | Clearly it flies against the conventional wisdom of the Conservative Government who , as we have already seen , prefer to blame slack parental control or moral fibre . |
| 21 | That 's where legal expenses insurance helps — it protects against the cost of taking legal action . |
| 22 | As Andrew Jones says , ‘ ACT is discriminatory , and it discriminates against the kind of companies that , generally speaking , are good for Britain . ’ |
| 23 | ACT is discriminatory , and it discriminates against the kind of companies that generally speaking are good for Britain |
| 24 | It criticises and deconstructs its own formulations as it struggles against the dominant system of meaning . ’ |
| 25 | So if you think about it a therapeutic group could certainly use suggestive therapy like hypnosis and my guess is that most successful groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or groups of people who wan na stop smoking or do slimming and things like that succeed for that reason , cos every member of the group reinforces every other member with a kind of group super ego and says look , you must n't smoke , you must n't drink , you must n't put on weight and it , it reinforces every individual 's erm super ego by means of identification with the shared value of the group and similarly reduces feelings of shame and guilt if the individual fails the group , cos next week when they come back they say oh dear , I 've put on five pounds , erm that they 're gon na feel bad about it because it offends against the ideal of the of the group if it 's Weight Watchers or something . |
| 26 | ‘ Clearly it operates against the person who is able to exercise the influence ( in this case it was the father ) and … it would operate against every … person who claimed under him with notice of the equity thereby created , or with notice of the circumstances from which the court infers the equity . |
| 27 | Clearly it operates against the person who is able to exercise the influence ( in this case it was the father ) and , in my judgment , it would operate against every volunteer who claimed under him , and also against every person who claimed under him with notice of the equity thereby created , or with notice of the circumstances from which the court infers the equity . |
| 28 | The MMC will analyse the merger to find out whether it falls within FTA 1973 and whether it operates against the public interest ( as defined by FTA 1973 , s84 ) . |
| 29 | The trauma is still exerting an influence , but in the negative reactions it pushes against the trauma being recreated . |
| 30 | A second objection to the strong anthropic principle is that it runs against the tide of the whole history of science . |