Example sentences of "[vb -s] be against " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The conservation groups have challenged the Town hall in the courts , but the first judgment , of 5 June , has been against them . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Most of the yard has been ill , and the ground has been against us . |
| 7 | 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 . |