Example sentences of "[art] [noun] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | While other workers have published careful studies showing modest , often transitory , benefits of training for IQ , Heber 's projects stood as a beacon of hope for dramatic and lasting benefits , and also as the defence against those who say that IQ has proved disappointingly hard to budge . |
| 2 | The judgment on the News International ban made it clear that political censorship , at least , could be fought effectively , and the basis for the defence against censorship was the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 . |
| 3 | They had only three working days in which to prepare the defence against the new charge . |
| 4 | In a further twist , a book by Theodor B. Donson , entitled Prints and the Print Market , published in 1977 and brought to the attention of The Art Newspaper by a restorer from Chicago , is now being used as evidence to back up the defence against Goldreyer 's extraordinary libel suits against critics of his restoration , totalling no less than $125 million . |
| 5 | The defence against him was supervised by the Archbishop of York , and three holy banners of St Peter of York , St John of Beverley and St Wilfrid of Ripon were flown from a standard in a cart , giving the subsequent engagement near Northallerton the name of ‘ Battle of the Standard ’ . |
| 6 | In this way , the use of justifications itself was the defence against the attribution of irrational ‘ lunacy ’ , for , if speakers were unable to offer ‘ factual ’ justifications for their views on immigrants , they too would be irrationally ‘ lunatic ’ . |
| 7 | The two main findings of this study are that ( i ) capsaicin sensitive afferent neurones do not seem to have an affect on rapid repair of injured gastric mucosa , although they contribute to the defence against injury , and ( ii ) anaesthetics can affect the recovery of gastric mucosa from damage . |
| 8 | But Tornado fighter bombers from Saudi Arabia and linked helicopters from the warships will provide the majority of the defence against attack from the air and the sea . |
| 9 | The model has predicted a response rate for each EQUIS code and plotted the response against the risk . |
| 10 | Matthias , for the first time , summoned Croat nobles to the Hungarian Diet and reorganised the defences against the Turks , building fortresses along the Sava and Kupa in what later became the military frontier zone . |
| 11 | It may be that the defences against their own feelings which they learned makes it impossible for men to tolerate the intense show of feeling from their women partners which is implicit in weeping . |
| 12 | The defences against those crimes would be that they were in the public interest . |
| 13 | Watching the Turks spray it around the park against our implacable foes , the English recently , the mystery deepened as to how we managed to knock in five goals against them at Lansdowne Road . |
| 14 | The information should enable the recipient to evaluate the opportunity against his acquisition criteria and to take an instant decision to reject or proceed with the opportunity . |
| 15 | So democracy is a dangerous exercise when it means we empower the majority against minority groups that have rested on the support of the regime . |
| 16 | This has the effect of strengthening and narrowing the aperture against crab attack . |
| 17 | But by the mid-nineteenth century the focus of interest in the treatises against masturbation was more clearly young people rather than adults , and there seems little doubt that this was connected with the redefinitions of adolescence . |
| 18 | They are the shield against fraud and deception , the guardian of interests in land , which need to be published to the world lest they be overlooked or overridden . |
| 19 | It was Paula who had insisted they share the suite against all Tweed 's objections . |
| 20 | The upright against which he rested stretched up like a great squared pillar into the ceiling high overhead , white-painted , the simplicity of its design emphasised by the seven pictograms carved into the wood and picked out in gold leaf-the characters forming couplets with those on the matching upright . |
| 21 | The inevitable revolt shows only too plainly the helplessness of the seamen against the power of authority . |
| 22 | To help you choose a hotel that can accommodate larger numbers , just look for the G against the hotel name in the price panel . |
| 23 | United Nations negotiators fear the peace process may be derailed by the fighting , in which a Mujahideen group has been helping government units defend the base against rival Muslim rebels , according to guerrilla sources in Pakistan . |
| 24 | A security fence , with watchtowers , protects the base against attack by ground forces . |
| 25 | Following Aelfwine 's death in the battle of the Trent against the Mercians in 679 or 680 ( HE IV , 21 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) ( see below , p. 117 ) , Deira was ruled from then on directly by the Bernicians ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 26 | Puzzled at first on noticing the familiar shape of Windmill Hill broken by another small , moving outline , she gazed with heightened interest as semaphore signals began to be spelled out from the ridge against the background of the sky . |
| 27 | Third , the parties may have started with the contract or conditions of the party who is now seeking the protection of the UCTA against an exemption clause . |
| 28 | Sticking her nose in the air she hurried into the car park and banged the bike against the wall of the hotel kitchen . |
| 29 | If the product proves to be defective , then this could give rise to three separate claims for damages for breach of contract — one by the consumer against the retailer , one by the retailer against the wholesaler and one by the wholesaler against the manufacturer . |
| 30 | But he had kept well clear of the struggle against the Act — why ? |