Example sentences of "[pron] [is] a [noun sg] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now there 's a vaccine against the virus . |
| 2 | Do you think that there 's a bias against women giving women erm the top positions of power on the County , because that 's where you would know , the County , we could talk to somebody else maybe about the City . |
| 3 | There 's a grudge against Tom because he drops in on everyone . |
| 4 | ‘ Unless there 's a plot against the Throne . |
| 5 | He says the difficulty is that the site is on the Oxford greenbelt and therefore there 's a presumption against any commercial development . |
| 6 | After he was pulled out of the tour following a four-match ban and then seeing Wakefield 's Michael Jackson make the trip after picking up a similar suspension , Goulding probably feels there 's a vendetta against him . |
| 7 | Do you think there 's a prejudice against women playing football or do you think it 's easy fo for women to play football ? |
| 8 | Whether there 's a boycott against them ? |
| 9 | There is a vaccine against the A and C strains meningococcal meningitis . |
| 10 | As he said , the principle that there is a privilege against self-incrimination has been recognised for centuries . |
| 11 | There is a warning against greed . |
| 12 | So how can people say there is a bias against coloured players ? |
| 13 | ‘ There is a bias against the South , ’ he said . |
| 14 | But it is well known that there is a prejudice against awarding the bigger gongs to those who have fled England : especially for Switzerland . |
| 15 | Unless there is a cock-up against Costa Rica , who they meet in their first match , Andy Roxburgh 's team should reach the second phase . |
| 16 | Anyone wanting to find if there is a judgment against them should contact the Registry at 173-175 Cleveland Street , London W1P 5PE . |
| 17 | Yeah so it 's a revolt against sort of social |
| 18 | Goal of the week ; it 's a goal against I 'm afraid . |
| 19 | It 's a fight against all that dehumanises , blocks and blights those who are made in God 's image and do n't know their God-given potential in the present and in a future which goes beyond the grave . |
| 20 | It 's a precaution against losing any work through the computer , you see . ’ |
| 21 | He knew that it 's a sin against himself , his own soul , he knew that what he was doing was against justice , it was against the advice of his wife , it was against everything within him and yet he still pursues this , this cause of having Jesus put to death . |
| 22 | Okay ? it 's a statement against your own interest . |
| 23 | The real problem , however , is that it is a race against time . |
| 24 | Now it is a race against time to rebuild it before high spring ties later this month . |
| 25 | There 's a theory being nurtured in certain quarters that Microsoft Corp Windows NT is less a strategic product than it is a dike against Unix and that Microsoft is trying to freeze the marketplace long enough to bring on Cairo , the Taligent Inc/Sun Microsystems Inc Project Distributed Objects Everywhere-like object-oriented environment it 's working on . |
| 26 | If this sort of account is true to the facts , then it is a consideration against any factual connection of the type Minsky envisaged between conscious access and ‘ reprogramming or debugging ’ , at least it is if lower-level translations normally exist as ( undebuggable ) compilations . |
| 27 | It is a precaution against the guest 's departing early the following morning without paying the bill . |