Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moonlight glinted on the razor edged blade , boosting his morale , even though he knew the weapon gave him only the slightest of chances against the lethal human killing machine facing him . |
| 2 | The accused , therefore , is guilty of blackmail against a timorous person , when a reasonable person would not have been frightened , only if he knew of the timidity . |
| 3 | Wright , Smith and Campbell were all guilty of misses against Ipswich , who side that regrettably lacked any ambition and contributed nothing in terms of entertainment to a poor contest . |
| 4 | On July 7 protesters had claimed in Trinidad , the capital of Beni , that the US Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) and the local anti-drug Umopar police had been guilty of abuses against the local population . |
| 5 | IF a person is found guilty of crimes against an individual or his family , the aggrieved family has the right to retaliate . |
| 6 | In Brazil gold is guilty of crimes against the environment and against humanity . |
| 7 | In the first Wilson was found guilty of slander against the Co-operative Wholesale Society which was awarded £pound150 damages and costs . |
| 8 | In the first day of the war , the Americans and their allies had flown hundreds of sorties against Iraq , dropped thousands of pounds of bombs and met virtually no resistance . |
| 9 | Pacer Systems Inc , quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market in London , reported a net profit for the year to December 31 of $322,000 against a loss last time of $685,000 , on sales up 9.6% at $27.6m . |
| 10 | Associated with these narrowly focused fears of imitation , there was a more broadly cast net of accusation against the ‘ Americanisation ’ of English morality , and the distorted criminogenic values inculcated by the cinema . |
| 11 | Data Switch Corp saw first quarter net of $749,000 against losses of $2.5m last time , on turnover that rose 15.8% to $23.2m . |
| 12 | Walking on his hands , he made hardly any noise , only a carpet-slipper slapping of palms against the floor . |
| 13 | Dynamo Kiev of the newly-independent Ukraine , sharing some of the problems of the Yugoslav team in that they no longer have a league worth speaking of at home , looked short of inspiration against Barcelona in their Group B semi-final . |
| 14 | The works of Freud are full of warnings against the very danger which is described in the study from which I have been quoting . |
| 15 | My diary is full of diatribes against the childishness , laziness , conceit or inefficiency of others . |
| 16 | You have nothing but the silliest of complaints against him . |
| 17 | After 1852 his appearances declined in number and 1857 he appeared in his last match , top scoring with 29 and 14 for 16 of Sheffield against Nottingham at Sheffield 's new Bramall Lane ground . |
| 18 | Old Parkonians suffered the narrowest of defeats against Tattenhall in the third round of the Cheshire Cup yesterday . |
| 19 | There will also be £30 million to £35 million of provisions against British and American housing land and commercial property developments . |
| 20 | Among the estate 's residents , the fact that several people have been charged or convicted of offences against the Ks cuts no ice : the estate version is that what took place was no more than a personal vendetta , between Ramesh K and the man who broke his nose . |
| 21 | ‘ And after the Venerable Dorn had rescued the mutilated , charred living corpse of the Emperor in the wake of that direst of victories against the renegade Horus , ’ declaimed moon-faced combat-Chaplain Lo Chang in chapel ; ‘ and after he had overseen the construction of the Golden Throne , guided by the Emperor 's mighty spirit as He lay in life-support ; and after Rogal Dorn had witnessed the transfer of that unquenchable divine husk into the Great Psychoprosthetic Throne , lo , afterwards our Primarch lived for another four hundred and thirteen years … ’ |
| 22 | It is obvious that a government agency for denationalization can not pride itself of having any ‘ historical background ’ , and whereas the pre-war Hungarian stock exchange followed the pattern of Vienna , Frankfurt , Berlin , and Paris , the new legislation tried to make use of all modern concepts ( which is specifically true of laws against insider trading ) . |
| 23 | But it is tied to the capitalist social order and therefore it can not strategically deal with the causes of discrimination ( this is as true of discrimination against women , against black people , against those with disabilities ) . |
| 24 | ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will . |