Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] [verb] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , is it not the case that a religion in which the Godhead is represented as male , or central to which is a male human being , necessarily acts as an ideology which is biased against half of humanity ? |
| 2 | Cost is obviously a factor which is balanced against the need for special skill or expertise , but it was an appreciation of the fears of the public about the financial consequences of visiting a solicitor which led the Royal Commission on Legal Services to recommend the ‘ free initial half-hour ’ despite the possibilities of abuse . |
| 3 | This resolution of meaning is seen as an effortful activity on the part of the reader , which is balanced against the likely pay-off in terms of satisfaction gained from the reading . |
| 4 | This means that the civil rights movement in the North will have to involve Catholics on the issue of the local government election register which is weighted against them by property qualifications . |
| 5 | Calculate the cost of each overhead against the foreseeable programme of works ( for example , cost of the project manager for six months , one tower crane for two months , accommodation for eight months ) to produce a graph of overhead costs against time which is checked against the tender programme . |
| 6 | The court said : " If the right to be heard is a real right which is worth anything , it must carry with it a right in the accused man to know the case which is made against him . |
| 7 | ‘ If the right to be heard is to be a real right which is worth anything , it must carry with it a right in the accused man to know the case which is made against him . ’ |
| 8 | Quite a large group apparently went to work as compositors in the south of England , if that is the right interpretation to put on the mention " gone to Colchester " which is recorded against the names of some women in the trade-union membership registers which are the chief source for this information . |
| 9 | If that is not in practice a policy which is presuming against development in the open countryside I do n't know what is . |
| 10 | Experiments tend to show that the major contribution comes from the χ s component , indicating that there is a large decrease in entropy ( non-combinatorial ) which is acting against the dissolution process of a polymer in a solvent . |
| 11 | He peers out at us from the photograph on the front cover of his catalogue raisonné : all we see is his deadpan baby-face , hovering horizontal about a foot above the studio floor , the rest of his body is concealed nay , shrouded by one of his crinkly gesso ‘ achrome ’ paintings which is propped against the studio wall . |
| 12 | A hacksaw may be the only possible tool to cut existing pipe which is installed against a wall ; however , the disadvantages of a hacksaw are that it produces fine copper filings ( and care must be taken not to get these into the pipes ) and that it will tend to flatten the pipe slightly — particularly if this is held in a vice . |
| 13 | So , while doubt is a state of suspension between faith and unbelief , unbelief is a state of mind which is closed against God , an attitude of heart which disobeys God as much as it disbelieves the truth . |
| 14 | In the evening , Hussa and Shama walked over from their house which is battened against the front wall of the compound . |
| 15 | Their Artistic Director , Emelie Fitzgibbon , directs this specially-commissioned play which is set against the background of the Medieval Crusades . |
| 16 | This offence may be seen as one which is directed against " criminal trespass " to the home . |
| 17 | Cenerente is a small village about three miles from Perugia which is silhouetted against the skyline on a hilltop 1000 feet above the Tiber plains . |
| 18 | It is a nickname which is surviving against very heavy odds — for ‘ Little Russia ’ is not Russia at all . |
| 19 | And they 're intervening of course here on the side of a revolt which is going against the grain of erm of certainly for Russia of course of er of of the attitudes of the eighteen erm er eighteen teens early eighteen twenties . |
| 20 | The demonstrators were members of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sanha ( KRRS ) , a local farmers association , which is campaigning against proposals in the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade ( GATT ) to allow patenting of plants , seeds and genes . |
| 21 | There are five exchange rate or currency contracts traded on LIFFE : sterling , Deutschmark ( DM ) , Swiss franc and Japanese yen , all of which are traded against the US dollar ; and the dollar-mark contract , which is traded against the DM . |
| 22 | However , the range of the union 's responsibility for the acts of its officers and members differs according to the nature of the claim which is brought against it . |
| 23 | ‘ I know it is hard but it 's better to try to ignore what is said against you . |
| 24 | The second requirement is that he should know what is said against him . |
| 25 | The specification is the ‘ shopping list ’ that is to convey to potential suppliers exactly what is needed against which products may be proposed . |
| 26 | The attraction of connectionism for the present problem is that understanding is based upon continuously checking what is read against background knowledge , using a large number of constraints to guide the process . |
| 27 | Mr. Collins said that any person whose interest are directly affected by a decision of a body acting in the public domain must ordinarily be given the opportunity of knowing what is alleged against him and of making representations to the decision taker . |