Example sentences of "were opposed to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were still powerful forces in the West , however , that were opposed to ratification of the treaty and anxious to ‘ compensate ’ for it by the modernisation of existing arsenals and the rapid development of SDI . |
| 2 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 3 | The forces of bourgeois society were opposed to slavery and serfdom not simply because they believed them to be economically undesirable , nor for moral reasons , but because they seemed incompatible with a market society based on the free pursuit of individual interest . |
| 4 | All but two of the books reviewed were opposed to testing , as far as one can tell from the reviews , and were praised for their position . |
| 5 | The loyalists now had the grounds they needed to be able to argue that the executive was undemocratic : the people of Ulster had finally been given a chance to vote on the issue and 50.8 per cent of them were opposed to power-sharing . |
| 6 | Clearly the permanent officials were opposed to legislation and persuaded successive Home Secretaries of whatever party to follow their line . |
| 7 | Many had faced hostility from colleagues who were opposed to fundholding . |
| 8 | Some like McGovern and Wallhead were opposed to collaboration with the Communists on principle ; rather than accept the United Front , Wallhead resigned from the Party . |
| 9 | Although outright bans on abortion had been passed only in Utah , Louisiana and the territory of Guam , many states were known to have anti-abortionist majorities within their legislatures and governors who were opposed to abortion . |