Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind this colonnade shops and offices were built against the rear wall . |
| 2 | Some say diffidently that the ERM has been assaulted by an extraordinary and unrepeatable event ( German unification ) ; or that the underlying imbalances which caused last September 's breakdown ( the pound and some other currencies were over-valued against the D-mark ) have now been sorted out . |
| 3 | America 's deepening economic problems had forced Nixon to introduce import restrictions in 1971 and to end the system , founded at Bretton Woods in 1944 , whereby all Western currencies were valued against the dollar . |
| 4 | The eyes were narrowed against the sun . |
| 5 | Though his eyes were narrowed against the sun , there was no mistaking the glitter in them , and Polly felt her skin tingle as she coloured . |
| 6 | Her eyes were closed against the glare of lights overhead , but still their dazzle came through . |
| 7 | Her mouth felt as dry as a bone and her eyes were closed against the intrusive light . |
| 8 | The cosmids were picked in batches of about 50 from the set of unhit clones ( ie by sampling without replacement ) , and so to ensure that the cosmids in each batch were from different regions on the genome ( and hence to maximize efficiency ) the unhit clones were reordered against the ordered YAC probes . |
| 9 | Writs were issued against a Birmingham businessman , Stuart Christopher Ford , his firm , Tilen Securities , and an Egyptian , Gamil Naguib , with whom he was thought to be associated . |
| 10 | Before he could be consulted , writs were issued against the banks by the companies and the shareholders in accordance with resolutions purporting to have been passed by each board of directors consisting of members of the Crawley family , but the receivers of each of the companies did not give their consent . |
| 11 | Between October 1989 and March 1990 there occurred a number of attacks on Spanish diplomatic missions : on Oct. 26 , 1989 , an explosive device wrecked the car of the Spanish consul-general in Rotterdam ; the following day two grenades were launched against a Spanish embassy building in The Hague ; on Dec. 6 a bomb exploded at the embassy itself . |
| 12 | I recall one evening , during the early days of the campaign , when on three occasions on different channels ( an arts programme and two awards ceremonies ) public statements were made against the Clause . |
| 13 | A liquidator was appointed for one of the companies , and actions were commenced against the guarantors . |
| 14 | The march eventually reached its destination but , on the same night , barricades were erected against an RUC raid on the Bogside . |
| 15 | But in the same period upwards of 10,000 executions were ordered against the bodies of defendants . |
| 16 | Accusations of ritual murder and of anti-Greek oaths were levelled against the Jews . |
| 17 | More grievous allegations were brought against the bicycling ‘ scorchers ’ who went too fast or , to strike another note of discontent , who went too far and barged into middle-class leisure haunts . |
| 18 | These arguments were directed against the corrupting accumulation of astounding wealth by private individuals , and aimed at bolstering the prestige of Rome as the most powerful state in the Mediterranean world . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , while regarded by the vast majority of members as good , proper and for the immediate and ultimate improvement of professional standards , the concept was challenged on a number of points , though these challenges were directed against the logistics of the proposal rather than the philosophy . |
| 20 | Burtenshaw took charge and 12 181b ( 8kg ) charges were lowered against the outside ( north ) underwater face of the caisson , the cords tied to the guard rail . |
| 21 | The speech was dominated by repeated references to the Labour government of the 1970s : a time , he said , when ‘ big booted union bullies stalked the land ’ , strikes were the norm and ‘ graveyards were locked against the dead . ’ |
| 22 | Last night , the new civilian government declared a curfew at the end of a day in which helicopters firing rockets and machineguns were deployed against the pro-Noriega militia based in the sprawling poor districts of San Miguelito . |
| 23 | The room had the look of a tattered nest — piles of newspapers were stacked against the walls , empty stone bottles stood about with dust on their shoulders like soldiers after a battle . |
| 24 | It was when the novelty had worn off , when the days grew short , when earlier and earlier the curtains were drawn against the dark silence outside , that she became restless . |
| 25 | In no time at all , the fire was blazing cheerfully , the curtains were drawn against the night , and Beth was pouring the water from the kettle into the bath ; a spill of cold water from the ewer , then another drop from the kettle , and the water was just the right temperature , the warm steam rising nicely and filling the room with a comfortable warm smell . |
| 26 | Today those men run an army of hundreds of thousands — and , thanks to the way the Soviet Union 's forces were deployed against the West , the best tanks in its armoury . |
| 27 | Two thousand , two hundred and fifty-four ( 2254 ) citations were retrieved , from which a sample set of 305 citations were checked against the two databases . |
| 28 | Two thousand , two hundred and fifty-four ( 2254 ) citations were retrieved , from which a sample set of 305 citations were checked against the two databases . |
| 29 | On at least one occasion , demonstrators were pinned against the wall to make it easier to assault them . |
| 30 | They drew attention to Israel 's refusal to implement UN demands to withdraw from the occupied territories and asked why no sanctions were applied against the Israelis . |