Example sentences of "at odds [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Successive holders of this post and of the clerkship of the pells , which had overlapping duties , had been at odds during the previous reign . |
| 2 | The emotion-packed power pop of the sparkling ‘ It 's A Shame About Ray ’ album is beefed up a little , but still buzzes with a naive , laid-back charm that 's at odds with the black mood of the band . |
| 3 | Seminar on Youth ( and its successors ) is a novel which in many ways goes against the grain of recent writing in Italy : quite at odds with the studied poise of Tabucchi , the selective precision of Narratori , or the deceptively balanced complexities of Calvino , Busi 's language is rich , extravagant and , to use the adjective which so irritated Gadda , ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 4 | He is right , but this modest disclaimer is at odds with the confident tone he adopts in the rest of the book . |
| 5 | Note that the four-note ostinato is at odds with the triple metre , so that it can recur only in its original place ( at the beginning of a bar ) every four bars . |
| 6 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 7 | This idea is at odds with the Saussurean principle that it is language which is primary , and that far from preceding language , meaning is an effect produced by language . |
| 8 | All the time she was glowering at her husband , the look of fury in her narrow black eyes completely at odds with the gentle action of her arms as she gathered the curd towards herself slowly . |
| 9 | As Fineman acknowledges , the anecdote may not be at odds with the general sense but , as we observe with New Historicism 's use of anecdote , it is difficult to determine its relation to the general with any satisfaction . |
| 10 | She gave him a saccharin-sweet smile , totally at odds with the blatant hostility in her eyes . |
| 11 | The problem seems to be that Gould expresses views at odds with the official policy of the old shadow cabinet of which he was a member . |
| 12 | He was constantly at odds with the Professional Golfers ' Association , once declining to play in the Ryder Cup match because of petty restrictions put on the players . |
| 13 | The religious culture of Lérins and of Faustus in particular seem at first sight to be at odds with the rhetorical culture of Sidonius 's own writings . |
| 14 | But just as the concept of a ‘ classless society ’ clashes with backing for private education and health care , so the concept of an integral Britain is at odds with the Thatcherite penchant for demolishing or weakening existing national structures . |
| 15 | She , and not Mr Kinnock , is constantly at odds with the European Community and the Commonwealth . |
| 16 | Merton 's emergence in the public eye has been steady , and somewhat at odds with the prevailing comedy spirit . |
| 17 | While this view of a readership is often deeply at odds with the actual circumstances of essay-writing in literature courses , it remains a conventional feature of academic style ; and your writing will produce very marked effects if you deviate from the conventions it has produced . |
| 18 | But as she stood aside to let them enter he saw that her wrists and ankles were slim and delicate , curiously at odds with the sturdy body , heavy-busted , almost voluptuous under the high-necked blouse . |
| 19 | The microphone and the evangelical enthusiasm seemed at odds with the orthodox robes and the white beard . |
| 20 | In this way , individual operations can be shaped to be realistic rather than at odds with the likely outcome . |
| 21 | Now , we should not quibble about Schmitter 's definition of pluralism ( which is somewhat different and rather more wordy than is our own perspective on this theory ) since Schmitter is intent on making the point that the system of interest politics as it currently exists is at odds with the pluralist viewpoint in crucial ways that bear on the nature of interest groups and the access of particular interests to the state . |
| 22 | Pope John Paul II stated that hostility towards Jews was at odds with the Christian faith , and the Vatican later offered financial assistance for the building of a new centre outside Auschwitz . |
| 23 | Gift 's bombast is quite at odds with the gnawing sense of LACK at the heart of the lyric . |
| 24 | Tiring of the distant ceremonies and speeches and festivities , so at odds with the gangrenous suffering inside the city — climax to so much other death on Stalinvast — Jaq opened a case keyed to the electronic tattoo on his palm and removed a small package of flayed , cured mutant skin . |
| 25 | By the early to mid-nineteenth century , many of the realities of life were totally at odds with the prescribed system of rule . |
| 26 | Moreover , its existence was completely at odds with the national trend for community care , since patients who were referred were brought to a location quite remote from the area in which they had lived . |
| 27 | Of course , Wicke stresses , the social meaning inscribed in the music is at odds with the social organization of its production by Capitalist business . |
| 28 | However , public perception of risk is often at odds with the objective measures used by engineers . |
| 29 | Such a stance , it has also to be said , was sharply at odds with the educational aims to which their schools were purportedly committed , with their emphasis on engendering open , questioning minds , a love of reading and so on , a contradiction of which such heads seemed unaware . |
| 30 | In contrast , some sort of appeal to , say , the authority of the government executive ( although in practice often the implicit outcome ) looks at odds with the individualistic framework of neoclassical economics . |