Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] against [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith has always struggled against top class spinners when he first meets them -but worked it out in the end . |
| 2 | Assad has maintained a ruthless one-party regime based on the army , which he has repeatedly used against domestic opposition and to intervene in Lebanon , where Syria maintains 30,000 troops — a crippling economic burden . |
| 3 | the evidence set out by the Society of Black Lawyers and the statistics released by the CLE which give reasonable cause to believe that the CLE has unlawfully discriminated against black students on racial grounds in : |
| 4 | In practice , the MMC has sometimes reported against foreign takeovers as contrary to the public interest , but the reasoning has been other than a desire to stifle competition ( e.g. the report on Government of Kuwait/British Petroleum , 1988 , which decided that it was contrary to the public interest for the Government of Kuwait to gain a major shareholding in BP ) . |
| 5 | It kills wet rot , dry rot and woodworm , and penetrates deeply to protect against future attack . |
| 6 | Of course , this test only applies to non-literal copying and the actual code remains fully protected against direct ( literal ) copying . |