Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything I do or say is turned against me . |
| 2 | THE BBC was bracing itself yesterday for a Government onslaught over its election coverage , which many ministers believe was biased against the Conservatives . |
| 3 | I 've been hoping against hope you two would get together ! ’ |
| 4 | Right they 've er they 've been preaching against Spanish slates . |
| 5 | But ever since you 've gone they 've been conspiring against me , plotting , and — ’ |
| 6 | They 've been protesting against the council 's decision to stop the car park there from being women only . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose you 've been speaking against her ? ’ he added angrily to Joseph Poorgrass . |
| 8 | I understand we 've been drawn against Sunderland ( 1st leg away ) in the whatever-it-is-these-days cup 2nd round . |
| 9 | Library users have been protesting against plans to close libraries as part of a cost-cutting exercise . |
| 10 | Perhaps in an effort to justify this simplification , some instructors have been warning against the use of the rudder to stop the yaw if a wing drops at the stall . |
| 11 | Research studies , however , including ( … ) those of Wolkind and Kozaruk ( 1983 ) on children placed through the Adoption Resource Exchange , and Reich and Lewis ( 1986 ) , and Maca-skill ( 1985a ) concerning the agency Parents for Children , indicate that children who have been placed against their parents ' wishes seem to be settling quite well , but there are insufficient numbers , followed up for insufficiently long , for us to know what the impact of adoption of older children without consent is going to be in the long term . |
| 12 | In social theory and increasingly in sociological theory , a school of writers of German origin , whose leading figures are Habermas , Adorno , and Benjamin , have been pitted against a group of writers of French background , whose leading lights are Foucault , Derrida , and Lyotard , in the controversies between critical theory and poststructuralism . |
| 13 | Monoclonal antibodies have been raised against a synthetic peptide corresponding to this part of A-gliadin and their cross reactivities with prolamins that are toxic and non-toxic to patients with coeliac disease have been investigated . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Oxford University have been struggling against Nottinghamshire at the Parks.The visitors declared at two hundred and twenty four ( 224 ) for four . |
| 15 | Glenn William , the captain of the latest , successful , American Maureen Connolly U21 team to visit these shores , was talking about the inherited problems of British players who have been reared against a background of international failure and negative attitudes . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , bitter campaigns have been mounted against the cuts and closures they have resulted in , by those who work in the services and those whose needs they seek to serve . |
| 17 | He supports the curtailment , apparently , of green-form advice , which I believe is largely motivated by the embarrassment which the Government have suffered from a number of very successful cases that have been mounted against Home Office decisions by law centres and legal aid practices throughout the country . |
| 18 | The international at Lansdowne Road in 10 days could be traumatic for Ireland , whose only successes since January 1988 have been achieved against weak opposition which , oddly enough , includes Wales at the Arms Park last February . |
| 19 | Most convection models predict that convection cells have similar horizontal and vertical dimensions , although arguments have been presented against this idea . |
| 20 | These services have been positioned against a particular segment within the diffused travel market , and are promoted accordingly . |
| 21 | If the country and the House have refused , since then , to give in to terror — despite all the horrors that have been inflicted against humanity on the mainland and , especially , in Northern Ireland — why should the leadership of the Provisional IRA and its fellow travellers , wherever they may be found , conclude that we shall give in to terror during the next 21 years ? |
| 22 | Provisions amounting to £5.1m have been made against Harland Simon 's total exposure of £5.1m at 31 March 1992 . |
| 23 | Of the charges which have been made against the civil service , those against the Treasury have probably been the most substantial [ Brittan , 1971 ] . |
| 24 | For example , in the past two years many applications have been made against local authorities ' handling of assessment and service delivery for children with special educational needs . |
| 25 | So , for example , in disciplinary hearings , natural justice has been held to apply on the ground that , as allegations have been made against a person , justice demands a right to answer these allegations . |
| 26 | Since quite serious charges have been made against the foster mother and her ‘ family , ’ it might be said that fairness to her requires that such an investigation should take place . |
| 27 | Provisions have been made against oil and gas assets in 1992 , to reflect lower oil price expectations and a more conservative estimate of oil and gas reserved in certain fields . |
| 28 | May we have an urgent inquiry into why , over the past three years , the number of complaints against the health service in Lewisham and North Southwark has gone up by 100 per cent. , why there have been 30 complaints already this year and why serious complaints of maladministration and negligence have been made against Guy 's , King 's College and St. |
| 29 | Threats have been made against Bishop Laszlo Tokes , including the confiscation of his official residence , the fouling of his house , circulation of false rumours that he harboured King Michael , letters predicting the deaths of him and his relations , threatening his children 's teacher , and his doctors . |
| 30 | On top of that , nine county court judgments and a High Court judgment have been made against him in the past two years , including £6,227 , still unpaid , owed to the Royal Bank of Scotland . |