Example sentences of "should be [vb pp] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils ' progress should be registered against these levels : level 2 should be assumed to represent the performance of the median 7 year old ; level 4 that of the median 11 year old ; the boundary between levels 5 and 6 that of the median 14 year old ; and the boundary between levels 6 and 7 that of the median 16 year old ; ( d ) assessment should be by a combination of national externally set Standard Assessment Tasks ( SATs ) and assessments by teachers . |
| 2 | Pupils ' progress should be registered against these levels : level 2 should be assumed to represent the performance of the median 7 year old ; level 4 that of the median 11 year old ; the boundary between levels 5 and 6 that of the median 14 year old ; and the boundary between levels 6 and 7 that of the median 16 year old ; |
| 3 | It said : ‘ The public should be warned against costly methods of diagnosis and treatments which have not been validated . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed the Royal College of Physicians stated , ‘ The public should be warned against [ all ] methods of diagnosis and treatment which have not been validated ’ . |
| 5 | The family should be warned against condoning the patient 's anorexic behaviour , which they may do either because they feel unable to tolerate the patient 's anger or because they themselves gain vicarious gratification from the illness . |
| 6 | Therefore , any criticisms should be balanced against that . |
| 7 | It is this : that collective force should be trained against individuals only when some past political decision has licensed this explicit in such a way that competent lawyers and judges will all agree about what that decision was , no matter how much they disagree about morality and politics . |
| 8 | The government placed the amnesty decree before the Constitutional Tribunal ( the highest body for legal interpretation ) on Oct. 20 , asking it to determine whether criminal indictments should be lodged against military personnel . |
| 9 | The Parliament of January 1377 asked that the common law remedies of False Imprisonment and Trespass should be granted against foresters who made attachments within the purlieus . |
| 10 | It must be remembered that the acknowledged success of HMOs in reducing costs should be viewed against the insurance-based systems they replace . |
| 11 | Even though in the passage above Gummer undermines his own argument ( through his use of the phrase ‘ at least among the articulate ’ , he implies that this consensus is confined to a certain section of society ) it is crucial to his thesis that the changes to be identified under the rubric of permissiveness should be viewed against the backcloth of an alleged Victorian moral consensus . |
| 12 | We firmly believe , without prejudging all the issues which have been raised in relation to the problem , that whatever mistakes were made should be viewed against the background of her overall contribution on the one hand and the activities of the enemy on the other . |
| 13 | In this particular situation , a letter of support would indicate a legal or commercial obligation , and so provision should be made against the debit minority interest recognised in the consolidated balance sheet . |
| 14 | Provision should be made against the investment if there is any impairment in value . |
| 15 | However , in many instances the arrangement represented the exercise of power and control over the protected State which was in a position of subordination , making it logical that claims should be made against the more powerful State . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) Before making an order under this section , the court shall consider what order for costs should be made against the assisted party and for determining his liability in respect of such costs . |
| 17 | It is common ground that in a majority of cases where an order may be made under section 18 for the payment by the Board to the unassisted party of the costs of appellate , as opposed to first instance , proceedings , the Court of Appeal or this House will be in a position at the conclusion of an appeal on the information then before it to decide under section 18(3) what , if any , order for costs should be made against the assisted party and to form at least a provisional view under section 18(4) ( c ) as to whether it would be ‘ just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case that provision for the costs should be made out of public funds . ’ |
| 18 | A careful note should be made against any sub-contractor used by the builder who subsequently proved to be unsatisfactory . |
| 19 | Remember , if the buyer is borrowing on the security of a mortgage of the registered property , that the buyer is not yet the registered proprietor , and accordingly a land charges search in bankruptcy on the appropriate land charges form should be made against the buyer on behalf of his or her mortgagee in the unregistered Land Charges Register . |
| 20 | Government intervention in a market economy should be assessed against the criteria of distributional equity and allocative efficiency . |
| 21 | The possibility of overspending due to inevitable inaccuracy in the estimate should be guarded against by the inclusion of contingency sums . |
| 22 | Other principles accepted by the declaration were : i ) that the polluter should pay for the cost of the clean-up ; ii ) that environmental damage should be guarded against even if there were no apparent scientific reasons for doing so — the " precautionary principle " ; iii ) that women have " a vital role in environmental management and development " ; and iv ) that , while nations have a right to exploit their own resources , they must not damage the environments of other states . |
| 23 | This passage should be seen against its background . |
| 24 | However , this should be seen against the background of the varying capital adequacy requirements for FIMBRA regulated firms . |
| 25 | Autumn raspberries need cutting back to just above ground level , and fruit trees should be sprayed against pests . |
| 26 | Imagine that a majority untrammelled by constitutional constraints decides that an external or internal threat justifies a suspension of civil liberties , or that retroactive legislation should be enacted against ‘ enemies of the people . ’ |
| 27 | Each should be ranked against key criteria and a profile prepared . |
| 28 | Each should be ranked against key criteria and a profile prepared . |
| 29 | It is not disputed , however , that all pregnant women should be immunised against rubella which can be responsible for one in 200 cases of severe mental handicap . |
| 30 | Usually the date of publication may be taken as given , but in a few cases — particularly where publication in book form follows several years after original research — imprint date should be compared against any dates given in the foreword or introduction . |