Example sentences of "of [noun sg] against [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been openly critical of his own archbishop 's defence of discrimination against homosexuals in church employment . |
| 2 | There is an attitude of discrimination against academics within our specialty , highlighted recently by Thomas . |
| 3 | Consequently , in exercising its powers for the purposes of defining the conditions for the grant of its ‘ nationality ’ to a ship , each member state must comply with the prohibition of discrimination against nationals of member states on grounds of their nationality . |
| 4 | The presbyterie taking the heignanseness of the crime in their consideration doe in odium fanti at terrorum allis appoint Mr. David Sympson his parish minister publickly to rebuke him for it before the congregation and then to take occasion to admonish the people against the evil of such practices and they recommend to the Baillie of Ila to put the acts of parliament against charmers in execution . |
| 5 | The presbyterie taking the heignanseness of the crime in their consideration doe in odium fanti at terrorum allis appoint Mr. David Sympson his parish minister publickly to rebuke him for it before the congregation and then to take occasion to admonish the people against the evil of such practices and they recommend to the Baillie of Ila to put the acts of parliament against charmers in execution . |
| 6 | Faragher ( 1985 ) found that police in Great Britain downgraded the seriousness of violence against women in the home , for although formal regulations state that it is to be treated as an arrestable offence , policemen often redefined the incident as lying outside law enforcement ( emphasized by Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 64 ) . |
| 7 | Despite its many other interventions , the state has failed to deal with the problem of violence against women in public or private . |
| 8 | They could hear the wild rush of the wind and the pattering of rain against floorboards from the deserted upper floor . |
| 9 | Secondly , there is a long history of reaction against abuses of judicial interrogation . |
| 10 | ‘ Secondly , there is a long history of reaction against abuses of judicial interrogation . |
| 11 | Beyond assignment and transfer , however , was true negotiation ; i.e. , the creation of new , independent or ‘ abstract ’ rights to protect the increasing number of bona fide purchasers , pledgees or mortgagees of bills of lading against claims by current or previous owners or possessors of the goods or bills , or by parties with legal or equitable claims against or derived from the shipper-consignor . |
| 12 | The West Indies selectors have been accused of bias against players from Barbados following the announcement of their Test team . |
| 13 | It might , however , be the method of choice against mosquitoes in urban regions where there may be more houses than breeding places , where there is likely to be opposition to house spraying , and where the breeding places are limited and more easily identified . |
| 14 | Compliance sometimes caused no hardship ; Innocent VIII , for example , issued a bull of excommunication against claimants to Henry VII 's throne , granted Henry a dispensation to marry Elizabeth of York , and later validated the marriage between his son , Prince Henry , and Henry 's brother 's widow , Catherine of Aragon . |
| 15 | Intrastrand crosslinks are considered to be relatively difficult to repair ( 2 ) and this may be the reason for their marked effectiveness of cisplatin against tumours of germ cell origin ( e.g. testicular and ovarian tumors ) . |
| 16 | The initial decision at congress to enter the formal political arena was taken to defend the trading interests of cooperation against incursions by the state , and when sponsored candidates were elected to parliament they tended to work within the brief by monitoring legislation . |
| 17 | Two of these compounds , dichlorvos and ivermectin , have the additional advantage of activity against larvae of horse bot flies ( Gasterophilus spp. ) which develop in the stomach . |
| 18 | The second was whether , on the proper construction of the Judicature Acts 1873 and 1925 and the Supreme Court Act 1981 , a hitherto undetected right of appeal against decisions of visitors to the Inns of Court lies to the Court of Appeal . |
| 19 | There are rights of appeal against decisions of the Law Society and of the Solicitors ' Disciplinary Tribunal . |