Example sentences of "[verb] be against " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Americans and Russians find it strange that we are 100% funded by government and over 50% of the cases we bring are against government departments . |
| 2 | Market sentiment has been against the brewer this year , mainly due to concern about its slow progress in selling off 1,200 pubs before the government 's November deadline . |
| 3 | Party strategists acknowledge that the overwhelming weight of opinion polls has been against them — and that for Mr Major to win tomorrow he would need a movement in public opinion greater than that achieved in nine of the past 10 election campaigns . |
| 4 | The conservation groups have challenged the Town hall in the courts , but the first judgment , of 5 June , has been against them . |
| 5 | United are in the middle of the table — they need to win tomorrow but so too do Watford — their only win has been against Brentford in the coca cola cup |
| 6 | ‘ Our only defeat in four internationals has been against England and we deserved a place in the World Cup , ’ said Mills , who gained 13 Welsh caps between 1975–79 . |
| 7 | ‘ Most of the yard has been ill , and the ground has been against us . |
| 8 | The probes used were against human CFTR exons 1–6 ( a-c and g-i ) or the hisD vector sequences ( d-f and j-l ) . |
| 9 | Eighty-eight per cent of people interviewed were against the control of water services passing from regional councils and 60 per cent said they did not understand joint board arrangements for providing local services . |
| 10 | B's remedy is against A alone . |
| 11 | The person holding the wing-tip should always run the down wind wing-tip so that any pull that he may exert is against the weathercocking swing into the wind . |
| 12 | But time is against Mr Rocard . |
| 13 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |
| 14 | Though since she had taken only one glass of wine , she knew that when everything should have been against her feeling in any way relaxed she must thank Ven , and his charm as a host , for the fact that she was feeling so entirely at ease with him . |
| 15 | ‘ You are begging , Joe , and begging is against the law in this country . |
| 16 | He knew that it 's a sin against himself , his own soul , he knew that what he was doing was against justice , it was against the advice of his wife , it was against everything within him and yet he still pursues this , this cause of having Jesus put to death . |
| 17 | In other words the protest would need to involve activity which , it could be fairly held , the protesters should have known was against the law . |
| 18 | The 28-year-old has made only 10 appearances all season , and the last Premier League game he started was against Oldham back on September 12 . |
| 19 | They get on fine , which I thought was against all the rules . |
| 20 | In particular the sharpened leading-notes ( a feature of some of his other editions ) are in this small space especially intrusive and seem stylistically odd , leading to a situation in the Credo where the plainchant itself has to be altered to accommodate the harmony , which I understood was against the commonly-accepted rules of musica ficta . |
| 21 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 22 | It seems to have been against creative law that the female should be endowed with morals . |
| 23 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 24 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 25 | The home affairs ministry had been against American requests to relax the law that protects small shopkeepers by making it hard for supermarkets and department stores ( big importers all ) to open branches in their neighbourhoods . |
| 26 | He had been against the choice of London as the location for European Headquarters when he had been Treasurer . |
| 27 | Local opinion was outraged ; Price was brought to trial and would have been convicted by the jury if the judge had not insisted that his offence had been against morals and not against the law . |
| 28 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 29 | He had been against it , too . |
| 30 | ‘ They had been against one another for a long time . |