Example sentences of "go against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relevant experiment , by Walcott and Michener , has not escaped criticism ; but it is not the only piece of evidence to go against the sun arc hypothesis , and even if that hypothesis has not been definitely refuted , we can say that such imperfect evidence as there is counts against it . |
| 2 | I sing it practically every night of my life , because , like bits of Hamlet , it 's so obvious that the trick is to go against the lyric and stir in your listener the real sense of a man who can not love . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , some research-orientated academics feel strongly enough to go against the grain and form a sort of elitist under ground for their best students . |
| 4 | It was such a simple thing , to go against the consensus reality , but so few human beings could work up the willpower . |
| 5 | In fact , his cabinet colleagues , already unsure about public support for the bill and alienated from Dr Browne by his provocative politics , were not prepared to go against the hierarchy 's condemnation and refused to support the proposal . |
| 6 | The public sector is likely to throw up issues that may require the individual to go against the organisation 's instructions . |
| 7 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 8 | The issue of whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned is also a question of judgement , and it would be somewhat unusual for a court erm perhaps erm months later to go against the policeman 's view , a view formed in the heat of the moment , where he had a firsthand erm taste of what was going on . |
| 9 | The planned destruction of so much of Romania 's rural heritage seemed to go against the tenor of Ceauşescu 's out-spoken nationalism . |
| 10 | And if they wanted to go against the wind , they had men , and they had oars . |
| 11 | Certainly , as Philip Norton has shown , since 1970 MPs have been increasingly ready to go against the party line . |
| 12 | The current distribution of responsibilities goes against the principle endorsed by the Herbert Commission of giving each local authority ‘ functions and powers which are separate and distinct ’ ( Herbert 1960 : 197 ) . |
| 13 | If the point is finally disposed of by the European Court and if the judgment goes against the United Kingdom , then the question will arise about the appropriate response to bring the legal system into line with the State 's international obligations . |
| 14 | At the very least this bolting goes against the spirit of the bolting and access agreements . |
| 15 | It goes against the spirit of the age to admit this . |
| 16 | Surely it goes against the spirit of the Council ? |
| 17 | For example , if a Gallup poll goes against the Government , sterling starts to shake . |
| 18 | They 're worried that having the two groups together is a recipe for trouble , and goes against the Government 's own policy . |
| 19 | 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 , |
| 20 | He now wants his heirs to be kings as well which goes against the witches prophecy of Banquo 's heirs being kings and not Macbeth 's . |
| 21 | Morbidly inward , unforgiving , Cave goes against the grain of the times by being sick but refusing to be healed and integrated . |
| 22 | Seminar on Youth ( and its successors ) is a novel which in many ways goes against the grain of recent writing in Italy : quite at odds with the studied poise of Tabucchi , the selective precision of Narratori , or the deceptively balanced complexities of Calvino , Busi 's language is rich , extravagant and , to use the adjective which so irritated Gadda , ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 23 | However it goes against the grain to tell them anything . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I have to say straight away that the three star grading is highly personal decision that goes against the grain of usual standards . |
| 26 | Now clearly a teaching approach which goes against the grain of natural disposition will create needless difficulties for the learner , as I pointed out earlier in reference to translation and the focusing on form , but it does not follow that pedagogy must therefore simply accommodate that disposition . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Cats do n't usually take to car travel , that 's why I do n't often take any of mine with me , and shutting them up in cages goes against the grain , but my sister 's two Burmese love the car , they 'll go and sit in the car when it parked . |
| 29 | Even so , this kind of exercise probably goes against the grain for a large number of readers , who will ask " What is the point ? " |
| 30 | 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 . " |