Example sentences of "[that] [pron] be against " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have made it clear to the people who work there and to the management that I am against the encouragement of tobacco addiction and in favour of measures which will prevent the use of tobacco in public places . |
| 2 | Well people are not bound to lose , because some people do finish up ahead , but most people should expect to lose for the simple reason that bookies have got to make a living somehow , and therefore the odds that they offer to entice people to go in are such as to expect the bookie to make a profit , but that does n't mean to say that I am against the idea of people going in for gambling . |
| 3 | Not that I 'm against paid pews for those that can afford them , but in moderation . |
| 4 | As she handed him the cup of tea her tone changed : ‘ Not that I 'm against joking , but everything in its place ; when I 'm here with Aunt Lizzie , we chaff each other , but … but not all the time . ’ |
| 5 | It 's not that I 'm against autobiographical writing I just generally do n't think it makes good , or true , fiction . |
| 6 | It 's not that I 'm against them in their place , |
| 7 | Not that I 'm against them . |
| 8 | I think we could promote ourselves , Mr Chairman , but what I can say is that I 'm against contributing to all these West Midland bodies that probably wo n't , wo n't give us any help at all . |
| 9 | I ask because , for example , when Vaclav Havel was in London , Thatcher made it very clear that she was against any weakening of Nato , let alone its dissolution . |
| 10 | That 's right yes , er vivisection is erm well actually to do with the cutting up of animals is n't it , testing , things like cosmetics , medicine medicines and so on , on animals and if you 're anti to be that you 're against it . |
| 11 | That 's the background that we 're against . |
| 12 | It 's not to say that we are against capital projects , we are not . |
| 13 | We ended up with a rash of headlines , some announcing that we were in favour of the teaching of grammar , some that we were against . |
| 14 | They look at everything from the point of view of the provider and their only discernible policy is that they are against privatization . |
| 15 | It is a fact that DLC suffered a pay strike last year , but not that they are against trade unions . |
| 16 | At no time did I ever have one of them ever say to me that they were erm against foxes , but all of a sudden we find ourselves being issued with a er petition from tenant farmers which says that they are against er people like me that er er pro banning , it 's very like er Mr , we ca n't attack Mr cos he 's no longer here but on the , on the issue of er , I C I brought ou . |
| 17 | A 1989 attempt to limit damages had failed to prove that they were against that part of the Constitution prohibiting excessive fines . |
| 18 | erm in general we must remember that Iran was erm stating very clearly that it was exporting it 's revolution and there were statements which came out from the Iraqui from the Irani revolutionary committee that they were against the Arab states at the time and that they were very committed towards liberating Israel through Baghdad and such statements was coming , so obviously erm the Arabs had to stick together according to charter of the league of Arab states , which everybody was a member of , and Iraq being subjected to war it was natural for the Arabs to give Iraq support . |
| 19 | Now , just over two years ago , when it was first mooted that the Rockhill site would become a permanent gipsy site , we did then erm conduct erm interviews in the town , and we interviewed something like two and a half thousand people , of which ninety five per cent said that they were against a site in that particular place . |
| 20 | The nonexistent reductionist — the sort that everybody is against , but who exists only in their imaginations — tries to explain complicated things directly in terms of the smallest parts , even , in some extreme versions of the myth , as the sum of the parts ! |
| 21 | Even married couples working for the same firm can be fired if the boss can prove that their relationship makes their employment impractical , or that it is against company policy . |
| 22 | She has discovered that it is against the law to discuss Christianity in public , even with another Christian . |
| 23 | Should he remain adamant , it may be necessary to point out that you will do what he wishes but that it is against the judgement of the agency . |
| 24 | Such a policy would be resisted in this country by some professional bodies and by some other groups on the grounds that it is against individual freedom . |
| 25 | Its document says that it is against rebates . ’ |
| 26 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 27 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 28 | The Equal Opportunities Commission brought an application for judicial review in December 1990 , claiming that it was against European law to require men to pay NI for longer and to make five more years ' contributions than women in order to receive full pensions entitlement . |
| 29 | That it was against the law would not worry milady in the least . |
| 30 | At one institution a group of medical officers argued that it was against the interests of most long-term hospital residents with chronic illnesses to be resettled in community units . |