Example sentences of "[verb] that against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm or the the Y against I mean in this one if you You could plot that against X which is the normal way . |
| 2 | So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year . |
| 3 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 4 | If we project that against total revenues expected in that year , it amounts to about one single day of revenue being allocated to the budget to implement the safety regime in the North sea . |
| 5 | I I one 's always got to er balance that against for example Policy I eight which refers to small scale industrial development appropriate normally permitted in rural settlements . |
| 6 | They give us something , and you could see that against Norwich , ’ he added . |
| 7 | If you want to have children you 've got ta offset that against , for example , having a car or a new stereo , things which affect your lifestyle . |
| 8 | ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’ |
| 9 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 10 | She wound her arms about his knees and dragged him laboriously across the gravel into the safe , thick grass ; his right cheek suffered , but he was hardly going to hold that against her if he survived . |
| 11 | He came to me and put his arms round me and said , " I 'm terribly glad , " and from the simple way he said it I knew that against all the evidence he had believed me , perhaps because he wanted to . |
| 12 | you thought that against Q P R have n't you ? |
| 13 | Hereford 's league form has been disappointing but they aim to change that against Lincoln who 've not faired much better . |
| 14 | I I must confess Mr I had some difficulty with the wording of P P G there when it says , unacceptable coalescence , er and trying to balance that against the expressed aim that this should be freestanding . |
| 15 | so that I can check that against the form and get the form |
| 16 | I wanted to confess to her once but balanced that against the need to be loved by her . |
| 17 | th th they defend that against the Japanese and then in , early in forty seven the come in and take it over so it 's an enormous psychological shock erm and they recognize that erm they , they , they do need to er they recognize that the way is through mass support , they think that 's what they 've got ta get , and they 've got ta get it quickly . |
| 18 | If you tried to plot that against Think of how you 'd do it if you had a graph and you plotted Y against three X squared plus two . |
| 19 | As a general point , however , if you plan your finances with a specific objective in view , you may find that against expectations a notion that first seemed impossible is actually affordable . |