Example sentences of "are [verb] against [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds and London Holdings and Deans Garden Centre , Scarborough , are to appeal against refusal of planning permission by Scarborough council for a superstore to be developed on land at Seamer Road . |
| 2 | Most schoolgirls are vaccinated against rubella , but it does n't ensure immunity . |
| 3 | Games theory can equally be applied to characterizing human norms which are instituted against aggression and other non-cooperative behaviour . |
| 4 | These conditions can be very useful in setting up a user search profile , which is one reason that information retrieval systems often use a serial file for new accessions , which are matched against user profiles intended to inform users of the latest accessions in their subject field . |
| 5 | When consultation rates are matched against incapacity rates , there is evidence that lower income patients under-utilise G.P. services … . |
| 6 | THE family of little Sam Hayton are racing against time to raise the cash required for pioneering eye surgery to enable him to see . |
| 7 | POLICE are racing against time to find five stolen canisters of rodent poison so deadly it can not be handled without breathing apparatus . |
| 8 | Doctors are racing against time to try to save the life of a former nurse from South Oxfordshire who desperately needs a lung transplant . |
| 9 | Doctors are racing against time to save the life of a former nurse from south Oxfordshire who desperately needs a lung transplant . |
| 10 | There 's new concern about the disease TB after a survey showed some health districts are going against government advice and not vaccinating school children . |
| 11 | Again , they have a monitoring role , looking at the way in which candidates are assessed against performance criteria and ensuring that comparable standards of performance are being achieved throughout Scotland ; |
| 12 | In South East Asia , for example , still only a third of children are immunised against diphtheria , whooping cough and tetanus in the vital first year of life . |
| 13 | The objections that are raised against identity assumptions in respect of meanings in such a context are chiefly motivated by the fear that such assumptions might commit us to accepting meanings as some kind of entities . |
| 14 | M.Ps have no privilege protecting them against an arrest on criminal charges but they are protected against arrest in connection with a civil matter while parliament is in session and for 40 days before and after . |
| 15 | Next month there 's going to be an international conference around reproductive technologies and genetic engineering specifically to bring together the work that women in India are doing against sterilization abuse and population control with the work the women in the West are doing around genetic experimentation and invitro fertilization and egg farming — some of the anti-women scientific advances . |
| 16 | Static welfare losses that arise from departures from competition in output markets are set against longer-run , dynamic gains which may arise from an increase in the supply of innovations that come about in less than perfectly competitive markets . |
| 17 | Colour for summer ‘ 93 is defined by the trend towards naturals — skin tones , neutrals and pale legwear are set against outerwear 's neutral classics . |
| 18 | STUDENT leaders are to campaign against Government proposals expected today which will curb drastically the powers and public funding of student associations . |
| 19 | In contrast , the issue costs of equity shares are charged against share premium account and reported in the statement of total recognised gains and losses , in accordance with FRS 3 . |
| 20 | International environmental activists are campaigning against World Bank funding for China 's controversial Three Gorges Dam project . |
| 21 | The very people who are campaigning against lead in petrol might normally be associated with moves to stamp out ‘ elitist ’ IQ tests . |
| 22 | Swindon who are fighting against relegation for the second year running were six points down at one stage … they fought back … |
| 23 | ‘ Darlington are fighting against relegation yet their gates are better than ours . |
| 24 | The National Schizophrenia Fellowship has become so concerned that the severely mentally ill are being neglected that they are arguing against hospital closures . |
| 25 | If the observations agree with the predictions , that does n't prove the theory ; but the theory survives to make further predictions , which again are tested against observation . |
| 26 | Mr and Mrs Hopkinson are appealling against deregistration at a health tribunal in Hereford , where former staff members are being questioned about conditions at Hill House . |
| 27 | All Carl Zeiss Jena binoculars are covered against manufacturing faults by a lifetime guarantee . |
| 28 | The Buildings as defined in the policy are covered against loss or damage due to ( i ) specified perils under Standard Cover policies and ( ii ) all risks under Wider Cover policies . |
| 29 | When these are plotted against number of carbon atoms , a straight line is obtained ( see figure 5.12 ) . |
| 30 | Cumulative divisions are plotted against time . |