Example sentences of "[be] against this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our basic conceptions of political theory are against this approach . |
| 2 | But seriously I 'm against this budget because of what is , what it does n't contain rather than what it does contain . |
| 3 | Erm , some film producer sitting in London , thinks of a rural county , he 'll probably think of Shropshire , and I think this is typical example of how we can dribble away our scarce resources on a couple of thousand here , a couple of thousand there to other bodies , erm , I am , I 'm , I 'm against this proposal , we 'll keep our money for essential items . |
| 4 | and Miller does not appear to be against this type of revenge . |
| 5 | 59% of respondents were against this proposal , of whom 86% were sole practitioners . |
| 6 | Over half of the respondents were against this suggestion , with a little over one-third in favour . |
| 7 | It is against this backdrop that the Coptic Orthodox Church is running a three-year programme of publications and audio visual resources designed to address specific problems and to encourage young people in their life and faith . |
| 8 | The user then has to input the date and it is against this date that all transactions will be checked . |
| 9 | £88,000 amortised over 10 years at 13% interest would result in an annual charge of £16,192 so it is against this figure he has compared outdoor accommodation . |
| 10 | It is against this background and out of this environment that YOUNG SOUL REBELS came about . ’ |
| 11 | It is against this background , and that of desperate economic crisis in the entire Soviet Union , that IME is supposed to proceed . |
| 12 | It is against this background of rejection that Leapor 's celebrations of friendship must be understood . |
| 13 | It is against this background that we examine the nature of police power more than ten years into the premiership of Mrs Thatcher and scrutinize the degree to which the individual is protected from the abuse of that power . |
| 14 | It is against this background that the new approaches to the psychiatric management of attempted suicide and the new official policy have to be considered . |
| 15 | It is against this background that we must see the recent withdrawals of a number of analgesics from the market in Britain . |
| 16 | It is against this background that the cruise missiles ' launch crews would begin their final countdown . |
| 17 | It is against this background of a highly anomalous solvent possessing some kind of possible patterning effect that we must consider the homoeopathic potencies . |
| 18 | It is against this background that I wish to consider the contemporary Crisis of Capitalism . |
| 19 | It is against this background therefore that I would like to state what I see as the relevance of Christianity to political economy . |
| 20 | It is against this background that the Battle of Cable Street must be viewed . |
| 21 | It is against this background that we operate . |
| 22 | Gloucester 's justification is presented as the armed force at his disposal , and it is against this background that he was petitioned to take the throne by the three estates . |
| 23 | It is against this background of restricted choice that one should initially view what was really a middle-class pressure group for women 's rights : the campaign to open up the compositor 's trade to women . |
| 24 | It is against this background — of the growing importance that the Government attaches to means-tested assistance — seen both in its rising share of public expenditure , and the significant rise in the numbers claiming such assistance , that we need to consider the operation of the poverty and unemployment traps . |
| 25 | It is against this background that Henry Claman 's review has to be judged . |
| 26 | It is against this background of law and authority that the security documents in the present case must be construed . |
| 27 | It is against this background that the local authority rightly decided that , if it were lawful , it might well become necessary to give W. medical treatment to which she did not consent . |
| 28 | It is against this background that I approached the construction and which led me to prefer the interpretation which bases the assessment to tax upon the actual cost to the employer rather than the hypothetical cost arrived at by dividing the number of pupils into the total cost of providing full facilities . |
| 29 | It is against this background that we turn to the mathematics curriculum and ask what mathematics is relevant to real life . |
| 30 | It is against this background that the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) has made a timely and substantial grant to the British Library of Political and Economic Science ( BLPES ) , working in conjunction with the Institute of Contemporary British History , to conduct a major survey of just this area . |