Example sentences of "[prep] or against [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People soon took sides either for or against what came to be known as the Council 's ‘ green belt ’ or ‘ anti-dispersal ’ policy . |
| 2 | I confess to finding some of his Freudian speculations , unleavened as they are by the faintest suspicion of humour , hard to follow , in the sense that I am unsure what would count either for or against them . |
| 3 | And was Theo for or against him ? |
| 4 | It might possibly have been convoked earlier had not Luther urged that a general Council , to which the pope would be compelled to submit , should decide for or against his Ninety-Five Theses , thus reviving the spectre of conciliarism . |
| 5 | When the next Rushdie has his book put to the torch , incitement to violence over a book , whether for or against it , should be treated as a criminal offence . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's why we have n't adopted a position of being wholly for or against it . |
| 7 | By doing this , we separate off everything which counts for or against it in virtue of its effects , or alternatively , its contribution to the formation of certain wholes . |
| 8 | A weakly verifiable statement is not itself strongly verifiable , but is confirmable or disconfirmable by appeal to other statements which are conclusively verifiable ; that is , strongly verifiable statements can count as evidence for or against it . |
| 9 | There are always going to be people who will come out strongly for or against it . |
| 10 | To the extent that inclinations from my own viewpoint harmonize or conflict with yours , the interaction moves me in new directions for or against you and your goals , to sympathy or antipathy , love or hate , pity or cruelty , gratitude or revenge . |
| 11 | When you 're up against your Fortune , whether it goes for or against you . ’ |
| 12 | Teams have 2 speakers and they must be for or against whichever motion is on the table . |
| 13 | and in addition to the foregoing such other risks as the Landlord from time to time in its reasonable discretion may think fit to insure against or against which the Tenant may reasonably request the Landlord to insure |
| 14 | Thus , there is some degree of selfdetermination in the ship case because we are free to shut our eyes , to cross the river and see it move from right to left , free to jump into the water and watch it coming towards us , free to determine the speed with which it passes across our visual field by moving our eyes with or against its movement . |
| 15 | However , the earthly role of the community , be it protestant or catholic , is not seen as secondary to the religious message , but as either in continuity with or against it . |
| 16 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |