Example sentences of "them against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plumping up the pillows , she set them against the padded headrest and left , closing the door behind her . |
| 2 | The campaign against scroungers began in the mid-seventies when the Labour government inaugurated the recession with public spending cuts and implicated the poor in the nation 's plight by refusing to immunise them against the economic squeeze . |
| 3 | In particular most people will be unused to the assessing the impact of percentage changes in traffic on existing roads or of weighing them against the environmental costs of the new road . |
| 4 | We found the nest with two brown spotted eggs , and the pair hovered overhead as we took a quick look , giving me a chance to photograph them against the blue Arctic sky . |
| 5 | Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart , because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together . |
| 6 | E. P. Thompson , in criticising Lawrence Stone 's reconstruction of The Family , Sex and Marriage , warned that : ‘ the point of history is not to see their occasions through the mist of our feelings , nor to measure them against the Modern Us . |
| 7 | It 'll be four hundred and fifty of them against the fifty enemy horse waiting there , and easy enough , you would think . |
| 8 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 9 | Carrying them swiftly away on its crest , it hurled them against the black rocks of Gribbin Head . |
| 10 | The arches will never be seen in their original form again ; To preserve them against the increased exposure to the elements which lowering the water level will bring , they 're to be sprayed with a fine layer of protective concrete , leaving no visible sign of their remarkable survival . |
| 11 | Naas trainer Arthur Moore and Yorkshire-based Jimmy FitzGerald entered their star novice chasers to see what chance the handicapper would give them against the established performers in next month 's £32,000-added showpiece . |
| 12 | If they were made any thicker , they would grip the batteries too tightly to allow the springs to push them against the positive contact . |
| 13 | Arctic mammals and birds have evolved pure white fur or feathers that help to camouflage them against the white expanses of the frozen north . |
| 14 | The England aim to develop and educate their players , to measure them against the stiff and stark texture of New Zealand rugby , was a complete success . |
| 15 | His purpose in writing was to recount the human stories of all his fellow parishioners and their ancestors and to set them against the physical environment and administrative framework of the place where they lived . |
| 16 | As they try tomorrow to do against the brilliant Brazilians what was beyond them against the amateurish Americans , the Liverpool new boy is reminded of Nottingham Forest 's brave battle against relegation . |
| 17 | The wherry shot under London Bridge where the water boiled between the closely built arches , the boatmen dipping their oars so the boats could squeeze by the starlings which protected them against the thick stone arches . |
| 18 | Touring with them against the top countries , ‘ not hiding , getting thrashed from time to time , but facing the top teams , learning all the time , and accepting that if we 're going to stay as a competitive group we 've got to be as far ahead of the others as possible ’ . |
| 19 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 20 | On Dec. 26 , in an address to the nation , Ukrainian Premier Leonid Kuchma announced that direct payments would be made to the poorest members of society to protect them against the worst effects of the price rises . |
| 21 | The realisation that we teach children more effectively if we understand them fully and set them against the social and cultural conditions in which they live and grow , places an expectation upon the teacher which can not be prescribed by contract . |