Example sentences of "against [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 2 | Other apparent beneficiaries of a protest vote against the existing system were the Republican Party , the Green Party and the Sicily-based La Rete ( the Network ) , which on an anti-Mafia platform became the leading party in Palermo , Sicily . |
| 3 | and therefore any further development on that site would be seen against the existing backdrop of . |
| 4 | One of the more commonly heard complaints against the existing management structure from top athletes is that its detachment from the road race scene leaves management ill-equipped to make selection decisions for road races in major internationals . |
| 5 | Positivism in turn can be seen as a set of ideas tending to reinforce the ideological domination ( or ‘ hegemony ’ ) of the bourgeois class at a yet later stage when it had become the ruling class in Europe : if criminal actions can be described as the result of mindless pathology rather than rational choice this both absolves capitalism of any blame for crime and helps to delegi-timize protest against the existing order ( Taylor et al. , 1973 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 6 | Well organised and technically proficient armed services can be used as a backstop to ensure that there is no internal unrest against the existing order of things . |
| 7 | Roxburgh knows that the Italians are favourites to win his group and that the odds are stacked heavily against the Scots qualifying for a sixth successive appearance in the World Cup finals . |
| 8 | Among them was a small cuddly bunny wrapped in a plastic bag against the overnight rain . |
| 9 | Owned and run by the Wieser family , this truly traditional Tyrolean gasthof stands right in the centre of the village , against the impressive backdrop of the Wilder Kaiser mountains . |
| 10 | Proceeds went to a campaign against the annual slaughter of 900 million migrating birds around the Mediterranean . |
| 11 | … viewed against the annual saving of 1,500 lives and efforts in Force 8+ gales the figures quoted seem minute . |
| 12 | At this time of year we receive many such representations , but they must be weighed against the annual death toll of 110,000 people which is associated with smoking . |
| 13 | His first fast unto death occurred in 1918 , in support of the Ahmedabad textile workers ' strike , and was employed against the mill-owning family , who were devoted to him . |
| 14 | The hospice in Cricklewood was of recent design and construction ; from the road it resembled a clutch of igloos against the sheenless tundra of the sky . |
| 15 | Ignoring her protests , Marc pulled her hips hard against him , moulding her beneath the palms of his hands and forcing her against the silk-covered wall of the corridor . |
| 16 | Demonstrators picketing the Romanian embassy in East Berlin urged the people of other East European capitals to hold simultaneous rallies on Saturday afternoon ‘ against the bloody terror of the corrupt Romanian dictator ’ . |
| 17 | To be accepted they are forced to develop if not actual defences , then masks against the external world . |
| 18 | Unaware of his presence , she was sitting on the soft springy turf , leaning back against the ancient wall of the summer-house and gazing dreamily across the blue haze of the estuary . |
| 19 | The then modish humanity had gone into a violent reaction against the ancient severity , ‘ and might almost be supposed to see in the fact of having lost or squandered other people 's property a peculiar title to indulgence . ‘ |
| 20 | Thus practically every boring seems to vindicate the subsidence theory and to provide evidence against the Glacial Control theory . |
| 21 | The Iranian government accused the Saudi authorities of a " criminal conspiracy " to kill the pilgrims and charged it with " incompetence " in the construction of facilities and management of the holy sanctuaries in Mecca and Medina , announcing on July 13 that it was to file charges of murder against the Saudi government in the International Court of Justice at The Hague . |
| 22 | With a heavy sigh she lay back on the pile of beach cushions , closing her eyes against the early-morning sun , already climbing high in the sky . |
| 23 | On Sept. 8 , 1989 , Emmanuel Moigua and Kalilu Titangay , members of the Pan-African Union ( Panafu ) group were detained for calling for a week of anti-racist and anti-Zionist action , including a campaign against the influential Israeli-managed N. R. Scippa company which was involved in diamond and gold mining and in importing rice . |
| 24 | Yet , despite the splintering , they have succeeded in allying the present two main parties against the Anglo-Irish agreement of 1985 . |
| 25 | THE ALLEGATION that the Royal Ulster Constabulary contains an ‘ Inner Circle ’ of officers preparing private lists of IRA suspects and working against the Anglo-Irish agreement has lent a new dimension to the security force-loyalist collusion saga . |
| 26 | First Edition THE ALLEGATION that the Royal Ulster Constabulary contains an ‘ Inner Circle ’ of officers preparing private lists of IRA suspects and working against the Anglo-Irish agreement has lent a new dimension to the security force-loyalist collusion saga . |
| 27 | Vang Shur , the secretary-general of the rebel United Front for the National Liberation of the Lao People ( ULNLF ) , announced to reporters on Dec. 15 , 1989 , that his resistance forces , claimed to number 10,000 , had scored many military successes " against the Vietnamese-backed Kaysone government " and now controlled many villages and remote areas in northern Laos . |
| 28 | Co-producer Andrews turns in another of his trademark refined Englishmen , gritting his teeth against the appalling injustice and rampant paranoia of Stalin 's genocidal regime . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , there has been reaction against the patriarchal notion that a woman is psychologically inferior and physically incomplete in not having a penis , although social realities have , and still do , provide grounds for envy of the male state , if not the male member . |
| 30 | The shards of horn stood out starkly against the snow-cloud sky . |