Example sentences of "[vb past] against [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cannoned against grey-quilted bodies , his breath came in sobs and the chill caught at that breath and sucked out little gauze puffs of air . |
| 2 | If it offended against purist commercial canons , then it could fairly be pointed out that the alternative might easily ( like overseas systems ) have offended more . |
| 3 | Coke had , after all , in Dr Bonham 's Case in 1610 ( 8 Co Rep 114 ) ventured the view that the common law would control and adjudge void an Act of Parliament which offended against common right or reason . |
| 4 | Fetid muscle-grass sagged against giant stands of thorn-apple , elephant rhubarb and halo thistle . |
| 5 | When non-Europeans revolted against colonial rule , they would do so with the slogans of the Rights of Man and national self-determination on their lips . |
| 6 | While Charles was busy fighting the Lombards and making his terms of future agreement with the Pope , the Saxons revolted against Frankish rule and by 775 we find Charles once again marching his armies into Saxony . |
| 7 | Information about the subject 's disabilities and handicaps and the current provision of health and social care , voluntary services , and allowances ( subsequently validated against available records ) was recorded on a standard questionnaire . |
| 8 | He pronounced against secular control of monasteries and the forced labour of monks on royal buildings and other works , ‘ a thing unheard of anywhere ’ except among the Angles . |
| 9 | Another argument ranged against post-accretional veneering is based on the inert gases in meteorites , particularly the carbonaceous chondrites ( section 14.5 ) which many scientists believe typify the small bodies from which much of the Earth accreted . |
| 10 | It is a scene far removed from the glare of the media spotlighting the battle raging outside but the painstaking work in the darkened room forms a vital link in the war machine ranged against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein . |
| 11 | A further 850 protesters were arrested when the police moved against simultaneous actions at a US air base at Wethersfield and six other locations . |
| 12 | They appealed against retrospective planning permission for these developments and were supported by ten local and-uranium groups in this . |
| 13 | The debtor appealed against estimated assessments and sought to postpone tax . |
| 14 | Fired by a determination to change this order of things , Louis-Napoleon found his first outlet by participating in the risings of 1830–31 in Italy directed against Austrian rule , in themselves an echo of the July Revolution in France which had overthrown the restored Bourbon monarchy . |
| 15 | Kenny Milligan , Derrick Lee , Graeme Burns , Gordon Rigby and Nick Penny are all enlisted , though Lee played against Irish Students earlier in the season . |
| 16 | Accordingly on 5 June 1991 Buckley J. made against various defendants orders for disclosure and discovery including an order in paragraph 18 that Mr. Tully should make and serve on the plaintiffs ' solicitors an affidavit : |
| 17 | Numerous purges in the regions were designed to root out less than committed fascists , which helps to account for the high turnover of membership in the 1930s ; A.K. Chesterton in particular was notorious for the war he waged against literal social fascists , being responsible for expelling over 300 members in Stoke in 1935 who used the local headquarters as a drinking club . |
| 18 | The protracted struggle Vincent waged against impossible odds raises a number of questions . |
| 19 | ‘ In the fifth set , Chang fought against physical pain , challenging Lendl to the ultimate . |
| 20 | Another writer , Ward ( 1981 ) , also argued against open adoption , again claiming that it could adversely affect the child 's bonding to its new family . |
| 21 | Engle concludes that ‘ All the heroes rebelled against female domination … |
| 22 | Each gang , called a crew , had its own area which it defended against other skins and non-skins . |
| 23 | According to Gregory , at the end of his life he destroyed the kingdom of Cologne under Sigibert the Lame , then he turned against various other kings of the Franks , Chararic and Ragnachar , whose base was in Cambrai , along with the latter 's brothers , Ricchar and Rignomer , who was killed in Le Mans . |
| 24 | In determining whether such a seizure was reasonable the court had to balance , on the one hand , the freedom of the individual and his rights which protected against undue invasion of his property , and on the other hand , the interests of society in ensuring that valuable evidence was not destroyed and that wrongdoers were brought to justice . |
| 25 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 26 | None have made statements about the deterioration of conditions in their respective professions or protested against human rights violations . |
| 27 | They knocked against linked bodies , which parted to let them pass . |
| 28 | Meanwhile the controllers and their senior staff fulminated against excessive interference from both engineers and administrators at headquarters , who , in their view , lacked the experience of power station design , construction , and operation which the divisions themselves had inherited from the local undertakings . |
| 29 | The Department was intended to promote the study of industrial design for textiles , pottery , etc. , and Cole campaigned against over-elaborate and inappropriate representational decoration on such things . |
| 30 | Late in life she campaigned against capital punishment , in alliance with William Allen of Guy 's Hospital . |