Example sentences of "[is] [verb] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sing it practically every night of my life , because , like bits of Hamlet , it 's so obvious that the trick is to go against the lyric and stir in your listener the real sense of a man who can not love . |
| 2 | Greenberg also warns the Unix contingent not to try to hoist NT on same petard Microsoft is using against Unix . |
| 3 | Greenberg also warns the Unix contingent not to try to hoist NT on same petard Microsoft is using against Unix . |
| 4 | A small battery-operated box with electrodes wired up to it is placed against the woman 's back and sends mild electrical charges to her brain , stimulating the production of endorphins , the body 's own natural painkillers . |
| 5 | The blood-red surround to the child again emphasises the raw reality of childbirth and is placed against the blue which we traditionally associate with the Madonna . |
| 6 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 7 | When the final total is reached , it is checked against the amount recorded on the till roll — and the two figures should be the same ! |
| 8 | Text Analysis The vocabulary of an inputted text is checked against the criteria of objective frequency , ‘ familiarity ’ and coverage . |
| 9 | Indeed , Ramsay 's secret societies , the Nordic League and the Right Club , were so easily penetrated by intelligence agents , and the government has now released some of this material , that when this information is checked against independent sources it becomes possible to present a plausible account of what the British fascists were up to during 1939 and 1940 . |
| 10 | The signature on the voucher is checked against the signature on the credit card . |
| 11 | Once an enveloping box is established or an old one changed ( by the addition or movement of entities ) the geometric domain model is checked against that of the functional domain . |
| 12 | The company organisation code tells the site , directorate and department , and is checked against the Codefile . |
| 13 | Calculate the cost of each overhead against the foreseeable programme of works ( for example , cost of the project manager for six months , one tower crane for two months , accommodation for eight months ) to produce a graph of overhead costs against time which is checked against the tender programme . |
| 14 | Every time you want to mail to the list , or unsub/suspend mail through listserv , your current From : address is checked against the one on the list . |
| 15 | If that is not in practice a policy which is presuming against development in the open countryside I do n't know what is . |
| 16 | In the north a constant war is waged against incursions from Naggaroth and the folk of Tiranoc and their kinsmen from the New World are always to the fore . |
| 17 | Our present campaign is waged against targeting or means testing of benefits and pensions . |
| 18 | TCG is biased against the taxpayer and in favour of the Revenue , because losses can not be carried back and there is no provision for carrying forward unused annual exemptions nor for top-slicing ( spreading the gains over the years during which they have occurred ) . |
| 19 | But Lesley Beattie , owner of the York-based Friends Estate Agency , yesterday denied that she is biased against male employees . |
| 20 | That is to say , is it not the case that a religion in which the Godhead is represented as male , or central to which is a male human being , necessarily acts as an ideology which is biased against half of humanity ? |
| 21 | Any action by the teacher which is deemed an offence is retaliated against without question . |
| 22 | THE Director of Public Prosecutions is to appeal against the High Court 's decision to halt criminal proceedings against seven police officers charged following clashes outside Mr Rupert Murdoch 's News International plant at Wapping in 1987 . |
| 23 | Dr Robert Jones , the Essex general practitioner suspended for eight months for serious professional misconduct , is to appeal against his conviction . |
| 24 | Wakefield SSD is to appeal against a £1,000 compensation order after a 14-year old child in its care was found guilty of mugging a pensioner . |
| 25 | A council is to appeal against Government plans to cut its spending by nearly ten million pounds . |
| 26 | He peers out at us from the photograph on the front cover of his catalogue raisonné : all we see is his deadpan baby-face , hovering horizontal about a foot above the studio floor , the rest of his body is concealed nay , shrouded by one of his crinkly gesso ‘ achrome ’ paintings which is propped against the studio wall . |
| 27 | and the way in which the , the whole settlement is skewed against Shropshire , we hear it on every budget debate |
| 28 | Soon the chewed mass has sponged up any moisture left and your dry tongue is clanging against the side of your mouth like the great bell of Notre Dame . |
| 29 | This section of the policy excludes any expenses incurred when travel is undertaken against the advice of a qualified Medical Practitioner or if there is an intention of obtaining medical treatment during the period of insurance . |
| 30 | Phil Kite is struggling against a hand injury and Mel Rees faces a long recovery from cancer surgery last summer . |