Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [pron] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battle is one against ‘ entrenched amateurism ’ . |
| 2 | Dorigo 's one against Sheff Wed in the 6–1 defeat was equally as good . |
| 3 | But that offence is one against propriety , against what a community may find appropriate to a particular time or place . |
| 4 | the risk is one against which , in all circumstances of the case he may reasonably be expected to offer the ( non-visitor ) some protection . |
| 5 | Whether the risk is one against which the occupier may reasonably be expected to offer some protection will depend upon factors which are more usually taken into account when assessing the standard of care , e.g. the nature and extent of the risk , practicability of precautions and , possibly , the type of entrant . |
| 6 | It is necessary to apply s. 1(3) which states : An occupier of premises owes a duty to another ( not being his visitor ) in respect of any such risk as is referred to in subsection ( 1 ) if — ( a ) he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe it exists ; ( b ) he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the other is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case whether the other has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and ( c ) the risk is one against which , in all the circumstances of the case , he may reasonably be expected to offer the other some protection . |
| 7 | 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 . |