Example sentences of "against [art] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was no small gain to set in the balance against the more obvious Erastianism of the new system . |
| 2 | There were barely 300 people in the Royal Albert Hall when they opened the morning session against the more experienced Australian pairing of Cahill and Kratzman . |
| 3 | Channel 4 Relief greeted the Government decision , announced in the spring , that Channel 4 had escaped privatisation after a battle fought on its behalf by Mr Douglas Hurd against the more vigorous free-marketeers in the cabinet committee on broadcasting . |
| 4 | The ambiguities and sub-clauses to be found in much of the press coverage during 1980–1 had at least acted as a countervailing tendency against the more extreme forms of discourse which blamed the riots completely on black people . |
| 5 | The great hero Rodrigo del Bivar — El Cid — had been the first person to use the weight of heavily armed cavalry against the more lightly clad Moors . |
| 6 | Isolating an infected person has long been used as a means of preventing the spread of infection and has been very effective in campaigns against the more serious and highly infectious diseases , such as smallpox ( now eradicated from the world ) , Lassa fever and tuberculosis . |
| 7 | The generalised and longer-term values of the former are always likely to be seen to a disadvantage against the more immediate and more publicly ‘ acceptable ’ benefits of the latter . |
| 8 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 9 | The Northern Ireland Office was shaken to its foundations and accepted that it had to curtail drastically the activities of the Provisional IRA and be seen to move against the more violent gangsters in loyalist urban districts . |
| 10 | Robespierre 's experiment was , scarcely surprisingly , a dismal failure ; and while the delicious dream of a universal , natural and reasonable religion may have an understandable attraction for those who are influenced by but not wholly committed to Christian ( or some other ) belief , it does not appear capable of offering any very stable resting-place , or any adequate defence against the more radical challenges to religion as such which have been raised from without and within Christian theology in modern times . |
| 11 | John Morrill has recently suggested , in an as yet unpublished paper , that the religious history of the period 1640 to 1660 can be usefully viewed as a revolt by large numbers of the English people against the more rigid applications of the doctrines of predestination and perseverance . |
| 12 | Such an argument runs rather against the more usual one that science , in the long run , reduces uncertainty . |
| 13 | They are , rather , expected to express their impulses in certain ways , ways that do not transgress against the more lenient standards of modern times . |
| 14 | ‘ What we need is real reform of the CAP — a reform which cuts costs and does not discriminate against the more efficient producer . |
| 15 | However , in many instances the arrangement represented the exercise of power and control over the protected State which was in a position of subordination , making it logical that claims should be made against the more powerful State . |
| 16 | At the same time , the formalism is broken up ( particularly in the last and longest sentence ) by elements which will ease transition to a lighter tone of comedy : for example , the bantering irony signalled by the parenthesis of " though ( of course ) an undeniably fine infant " ( directed against a general human frailty , partiality of parents for their offspring , rather than against the more repellent form that partiality takes in Mr Dombey ) ; also , the fanciful extensions of the well-worn personifications of Time and Care , again expressed through parenthetical elaboration of the syntax . |
| 17 | Contemporary reports suggest strongly that Corvan 's performance style was dramatic , intimate , high in spontaneity and very dependent on audience rapport — as against the more fixed , formalized renderings of the tunes which would be typical of performances in the bourgeois drawing-room or the ballad concert . |
| 18 | The aspiration to conduct research on the part of the academic community has been a vital ingredient in the process of ‘ academic drift ’ , of new institutions of higher education measuring their performance against the more established and elite institutions . |
| 19 | It was also the prejudice of the less gifted against the more gifted . |
| 20 | It has worked effectively , especially against the more attacking sides . |
| 21 | It is often agreed as a balance against the more controversial " forced sale " provisions ( see below ) which are more frequently requested by investors . |
| 22 | It is always necessary to set it against a more general background or to establish the conventions and limitations adopted by the makers of these small and almost two-dimensional objects . |
| 23 | It would be even better if that model were made explicit and tested for validity against a more complete analysis of the firm 's competitive position — the manager may , after all , be wrong . |
| 24 | With the opportunity cost of capital so high , the Treasury reckons Britain 's remaining public-sector industries ought to appraise their investments against a more realistic yardstick . |
| 25 | Obviously the scum are an exception and we all want them to loose , it was a shame they were up against a more charitable defence than ours . |
| 26 | These sanctions were usually threatened against no more than twenty councils ; these had to be named in Parliament and special powers taken . |