Example sentences of "[pers pn] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | A particularly influential and characteristic tract is his Against Praxeas , a Christian who came from Asia Minor to Rome to express opposition both to the pluralistic theology of Justin and Hippolytus and to any recognition that Montanist prophecy might be an authentic work of the Paraclete . |
| 2 | Acting bravely and with initiative during the mutiny , he is oppressed with shame when he remembers certain arrogant and cruel actions of his against the crew . |
| 3 | I against the Chairman . |
| 4 | Well there 's no way I against the |
| 5 | The GMB general union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , with 800,000 and 600,000 votes respectively , are casting theirs against . |
| 6 | Remarkably , however , England had won all their matches against Australia , and Australia had won three of theirs against |
| 7 | Coolly Bunty turned to give a final look in the mirror ; then put her fingers to her lips and , as she passed Conroy , pressed them against his . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We will have the psychological edge over them , ’ Jonah Barrington , the coach , said , even though he had seen Del Harris , Bryan Beeson and Jason Nicolle fail to purloin even a single game between them against their rampaging opponents . |
| 10 | No doubt they chose their paper partly with that bias in mind while they felt that television bias was being inflicted upon them against their will . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This guaranteed that the water fell to the ground just clear of the walls , so protecting them against damp , discoloration and decay . |
| 15 | No confusion was found when they tested them against 200 different isolates of the same , but genetically unmodified , bacterium taken from lake water . |
| 16 | In contrast , most local clergymen seek to serve their local communities and defend them against Bucharest 's policies of assimilation . |
| 17 | In the wartime agreement on pooling brains and resources for the original work on the atomic bomb , which was signed at Quebec in 1943 between the United States and Britain in association with Canada , there were five clauses : the signatories would not use atomic weapons against each other ; they would not use them against third parties without the others ' consent ; no information would be given to third parties without mutual consent ; Britain disclaimed any interest in commercial and industrial exploitation , because the heavy burden of production would fall on the United States ; and a Combined Policy Committee would be set up to ensure full and effective collaboration . |
| 18 | European diplomats say that Reginald Bartholomew , the under-secretary of state for security assistance , has warned them against doing anything with the WEU that undermines NATO or freezes out the Americans from security talks at which they think they are entitled to be present . |
| 19 | They even got the transparency of the house the wrong way round in their ‘ Country Homes ’ magazine , but their name and reputation insulated them against such elementary errors . |
| 20 | to me hold them against their will ? '' ’ |
| 21 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 22 | Ear-tagged lambs traceable back to source at every stage will be delivered by approved hauliers to processors , who will check them against retailers ' specifications . |
| 23 | He certainly talked about such things , defended them against some of their critics ; but his business , what engrossed him and what he knew well , was the school . |
| 24 | I saw them against Genoa and I was very impressed . |
| 25 | Labour says that although it would hand the opted-out schools back to the authorities that used to control them , it would protect them against discrimination . |
| 26 | It has become a confrontation , them against us , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Japanese chemists have synthesised a large number of isoprenyl and isoprenoxyl derivatives and tested them against animal models . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Or it may abrade ; picking up silt , sand , or even rocks and grinding them against the rock beneath . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |