Example sentences of "as against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 4.8 measures in broad terms low as against non-low realizations of ( α ) in the two outer-city areas as against the inner-city Clonard area . |
| 2 | It does of course raise serious questions about reductionism ( Peacocke 1985 ) , although it is worth noting that reductionism between levels ( e.g. from the social to the biological or from the biological to the biochemical ) is different from reductionism within a given level ( e.g. the psychological as against the sociological , or the sociological as against the economic ) , which is a matter of perspective or aspect rather than level in Comte 's terms . |
| 3 | It does of course raise serious questions about reductionism ( Peacocke 1985 ) , although it is worth noting that reductionism between levels ( e.g. from the social to the biological or from the biological to the biochemical ) is different from reductionism within a given level ( e.g. the psychological as against the sociological , or the sociological as against the economic ) , which is a matter of perspective or aspect rather than level in Comte 's terms . |
| 4 | It will probably turn on the relative importance of being close to the cash market ( SOFFEX ) as against the synergistic presence of other contracts on the same exchange ( LIFFE ) . |
| 5 | The decay of the system was manifested by speculative trading in agricultural produce , as against the orderly methods of the state-capitalist trusts . |
| 6 | I have a very observant Afrikaans friend , a medical doctor , also a great admirer of Mr.X , who maintains that all top-class golfers walk on the insides of their feet , thus enabling them to maintain the right shin post without effort , as against the bandy-legged player , who finds it very difficult to keep his right knee firm on the backswing . |
| 7 | The head has to examine the balance between expenditure on maintaining the fabric of the school and its daily servicing and expenditures on unavoidable commitments as against the occasional opportunity for one-off changes . |
| 8 | The vestry of the City church of St Peter-le-Poore , Broad Street , also had this in mind and , as a result , officials were charging an additional £50 in 1838 for iron coffins deposited in their vaults over and above the standard fee of £1 15s. 2d. as against the extra £20 asked for a lead shell — with all fees double for non-parishioners . |
| 9 | It was considered that to focus on penetration would be to continue to emphasise the sexual as against the violent aspects of the offence . |
| 10 | Broadly , however , it tended to emphasise the natural as against the artificial , the spontaneous as against the imposed , experience and emotion as against cold rationality , inwardness and imagination as against the outward and formal . |
| 11 | You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on . |
| 12 | Suppose , first , that the other player is also Tit for Tat ( remember that each strategy played against copies of itself as well as against the other 14 ) . |
| 13 | Section 31 explains the rights of an assignee of share in partnership : ( 1 ) An assignment by a partner of his share in the partnership , either absolute or by way of mortage or redeemable charge , does not , as against the other partners , entitle the assignee , during the continuance of the partnership , to interfere in the management or administration of the partnership business or affairs , or to require any accounts of the partnership transactions , or to inspect the partnership books , but entitles the assignee only to receive the share of profits to which the assigning partner would otherwise be entitled , and the assignee must accept the account of profits agreed to by the partners . |
| 14 | If a husband and wife are the adopters they have the same rights as against one another , and as against the adopted child , as if they were the child 's natural father and mother . |
| 15 | ‘ Reverting to the decision at first instance in the Leighton case , the report of the argument shows that the provisions of section 82(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1925 were drawn to the attention of Luxmoore J. We feel no doubt that he would have appreciated that , even in the absence of a successful plea of forgery or non est factum , the section would in terms have conferred a discretion on the court to rectify the charges register , even as against the innocent chargees . |
| 16 | My contention is , then , that ‘ profession ’ in the bourgeois sense of a special kind of occupation also carries ambiguous connotations of ‘ professional ’ as non-amateur , as describing services performed for gain rather than satisfaction or obligation , of skills acquired rather than naturally endowed and of lowly , client-dependent status as against the honorific independence of the gentleman . |
| 17 | The right of private prosecution ( now under threat ) , the role of the police in prosecution as against the comparative advantages of public prosecutors , the function of the DPP , the involvement of the Attorney-General in the question of injunctions against criminal activity , and the prerogative of mercy all add to the institutional complexity . |
| 18 | He felt disappointed because writing " Voice of Vangmoor " was the only money-making activity he did that he enjoyed , and this would have been more enjoyable than usual , a piece of real journalism as against the usual pedestrian stuff about the view from the top of Big Allen or hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 19 | That is an opted out school as against the standard state school , which is subject to the overall policies of the Local Education Authority , and indeed it is funded by the Local Education Authority through a formula , and the amount of money that is put into that formula will obviously affect the amount of money the school has to spend , so it 's providing the same range of education within the National Curriculum , but it is not beholden to the Local Authority — that 's the basic difference . |
| 20 | The gold moidore factor is not quite what it was , since Mr Tim is a major nickelfucker. £5.50 an hour oozed reluctantly from his wallet , as against the munificent £8 of the Shakespeare School . |
| 21 | As well as being close to so much North European prosperity , Brussels offers the boon of a 6% rate of VAT on objects sold at auction as against the crippling 18.6% imposed on all but ‘ original works of art ’ in Paris . |
| 22 | This argument is used particularly in discussions about the relative strengths of providing services through the public sector as against the private sector . |
| 23 | The revision proposed that works councils should be set up in order to vest in the workers a measure of control as against the bureaucratic command of the central planning authority . |
| 24 | The price at Yanbu' was $17.30 per bbl , while at Ceyhan it was $17.50 as against the Turkish line 's normal feed , Kirkuk , at $17.60 . |
| 25 | We should also reject ( Hegel 's ) idea that it represents the populace as against the aristocratic heroes of the drama proper : in origin and essence , tragedy is purely metaphysical and not sociopolitical . |
| 26 | ‘ ( 2 ) Where an unpaid seller who has exercised his right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit re-sells the goods , the buyer acquires a good title to them as against the original buyer . ’ |
| 27 | In distinguishing between ( a ) and ( b ) I may have given the impression of wishing to maintain a strict distinction between space and time as against the physical space-time . |
| 28 | In 1990 , the number had risen to 34 per cent ( as against the respective 11 and 14 for whites ) . |
| 29 | … the extent to which Leapor 's writing represents female eroticism as transgressive , situates it in relation to sapphic textuality , and exposes the necessary construction of such alternative desires within as well as against the very terms of heterosexual propriety from which they are generated |
| 30 | As against the classical , the serenely beautiful , Nietzsche was opting for the archaic . |