Example sentences of "them against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only passing accounts of his life and work have appeared in the literature , and while brief references have been made to Nicholson 's excellence as a chemist , these have not done justice to his achievements , or set them against the London localities where they occurred . |
| 2 | She was not so lucky with Benton , who sprang up and crashed into her , his arms locking around her waist , their combined momentum slamming them against the door . |
| 3 | At the junction of the Welford branch , a boat from Welford met them with ample supplies of refreshments to fortify them against the passage of Bosworth tunnel . |
| 4 | A pulse of pressure from behind threw them against the factor , he turned and jumped for the door , beat on it , it opened abruptly , and he fell inside . |
| 5 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 6 | The devil-man opened his eyes and shielded them against the brightness of the sky . |
| 7 | Care must be taken when using these servos to avoid stalling them against the end-stops as large currents will be drawn by the servo amplifier that may eventually cause permanent damage . |
| 8 | Peebles played 18 games for the Ports during an extended loan period , and scored three goals — ironically one of them against the Blues in that 3–0 win on the last day of the season . |
| 9 | In the mid-1950s , when the private sector finance houses were increasing their facilities for private retailers , the Government withheld some of the funds the Boards requested for developing their own hire purchase schemes , thus further hobbling them against the competition . |
| 10 | In 1905 , at age 48 , he walked 200 yards , ran 200 yards , cycled 200 yards , rowed 200 yards and swam 200 yards , all in under a total of eight minutes , and in 1903 he had swum five miles in the Thames ( two of them against the tide ) . |
| 11 | Well we just thought somewhere at the back where we could pin them against the wall . |
| 12 | Otherwise their existence might be a source of danger , for they had followings of their own which were likely to support them against the king in a political crisis . |
| 13 | If you look at the oxygen results and plot them against the year of coral growth we see cooler water temperatures and hence stronger trade winds during the little ice age prior to nineteen hundred . |
| 14 | The Meskhetians , another of the ‘ punished peoples ’ , had been moved from their traditional homelands near the Turkish-Soviet border in 1944 , ostensibly in order to protect them against the possibility of a German advance . |
| 15 | I am happy to say that the farmers of the United Kingdom believe in this ministerial team and in the Government , who are fighting for them against the proposals of the European Community . |
| 16 | Or it may abrade ; picking up silt , sand , or even rocks and grinding them against the rock beneath . |
| 17 | Did it make them stronger in their faith so that when they leave school and face the terrible temptation of the world , the fact that they danced on the altar during mass strengthen them against the temptation ? |
| 18 | Like the latter , Genet inverts and subverts the surface/depth binary , confirming and exploiting the connections between the paradoxical and the perverse , and turning them against the regimes , heterosexual and otherwise , which outlaw the deviant . |
| 19 | A bar chart can often be a useful format for listing tasks in a clear visual manner and showing them against the time-frame of the overall project . |
| 20 | One way of doing this is to take a piece of paper and mark the position of the mounting holes and matching them against the motherboard . |
| 21 | Before , however , I examine in more detail my own personal views on this subject I would like to set them against the background of alternative approaches . |
| 22 | What the historian is trying to do is not merely to record the events and happenings of war , but to study them against the background of the world in which the long Anglo-French conflict was fought . |
| 23 | The palms of her hands were sweating , and she wiped them against the legs of her tunic . |
| 24 | The harnesses that supported the two Chelonians swung from side to side , knocking them against the sides of the tank . |
| 25 | In those circumstances , it will be necessary to attempt to spell out the general laws , metaphysical and methodological principles , etc. involved in a paradigm in order to defend them against the alternatives involved in the threatening new paradigm . |
| 26 | Sylvester 's text considers these factors and balances them against the feebleness with which Magritte might execute dull repetitions of his more popular compositions . |
| 27 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 28 | Instead , because his followers were anxious for a fight , he led them against the Auvergne , where there had recently been a conspiracy against him , which he wished to punish . |
| 29 | She stood there for a moment in confusion , the lantern in her hand shedding a golden light on the creamy folds of her dress where the dark fur had fallen open over it , her hand to her eyes , shading them against the lantern light , her brow creased with puzzlement . |
| 30 | Brush one edge of the strips with a dampened brush and carefully place them against the cake so that they are supported by the cocktail sticks . |