Example sentences of "[indef pn] [is] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nobody is against pedestrianisation in principle but it has been too harshly applied , ’ he said . |
| 2 | ‘ If we can not win now , when everything is against the Government , when can we ever win again ? ’ |
| 3 | Mr Kinnock has been If we can not win now , when everything is against the Government , when can we ever win again ? consistently less popular than his party . |
| 4 | Everything 's against me , but I wo n't give in . |
| 5 | ‘ Everything 's against us . ’ |
| 6 | Everything 's against you ! |
| 7 | All wood-burning pundits have their prejudices and the commonest one is against elm . |
| 8 | The nonexistent reductionist — the sort that everybody is against , but who exists only in their imaginations — tries to explain complicated things directly in terms of the smallest parts , even , in some extreme versions of the myth , as the sum of the parts ! |
| 9 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 10 | Listen what the prophet says there in the third chapter , he says , this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain , the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind therefore I have hope . |
| 11 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |