Example sentences of "[been] [verb] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | AIRLINE boss Richard Branson is on the verge of victory against British Airways rival Lord King after claiming a ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign had been waged against Virgin Atlantic . |
| 2 | A day later he claimed that he had been the victim of a dirty tricks campaign , saying that his house had been under surveillance and that a carefully organized smear campaign had been waged against him , apparently concerning loans alleged to have been made to his petfood company several years previously . |
| 3 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 4 | The newly restored Japanese Emperor opened the line , and thereby scotched the bitter religious opposition that had been aroused against the building of railways . |
| 5 | But in the last twelve months the fury of the entire national had been aroused against him by an aged , exiled cleric for whom he had only contempt . |
| 6 | The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs . |
| 7 | Thinness of texture has been guarded against by means of the bassoon parts in bar 2 and the bassoon parts in bars 6 and 7 ( in which the implied bass is given on the 2nd , 3rd , and 4th quaver-beats of each bar ) . |
| 8 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 9 | She had been resting against his trunk and now he could see what had happened to it . |
| 10 | Not only has this led to a high degree of volatility in the foreign exchange markets , but at the same time trade and capital flows have been undertaken against a greater background of uncertainty than was customary in the 1960s . |
| 11 | It was as if two palms had been placed against the frail skin and forced it upwards so that he saw with a shock of premonitory recognition the shine of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 12 | Research studies , however , including ( … ) those of Wolkind and Kozaruk ( 1983 ) on children placed through the Adoption Resource Exchange , and Reich and Lewis ( 1986 ) , and Maca-skill ( 1985a ) concerning the agency Parents for Children , indicate that children who have been placed against their parents ' wishes seem to be settling quite well , but there are insufficient numbers , followed up for insufficiently long , for us to know what the impact of adoption of older children without consent is going to be in the long term . |
| 13 | This faculty gives equal consideration to all applications received , irrespective of whether an asterisk has been placed against Edinburgh on the UCAS form . |
| 14 | This pole has been treated against rot ( previous poles had to have bits chopped of the bottom periodically ) so there is no reason now to stick to the three year cycle . |
| 15 | Glenn William , the captain of the latest , successful , American Maureen Connolly U21 team to visit these shores , was talking about the inherited problems of British players who have been reared against a background of international failure and negative attitudes . |
| 16 | However , unlike the GHQ , it has not been validated against psychiatric opinion . |
| 17 | The technique has proved reliable ( Geffen and Caudrey , 1981 ) and has been validated against the assessment of language laterality by means of unilateral ECT ( Geffen , Traub and Stierman , 1978 ) and , in four cases , against the Wada sodium amytal test ( Wale and Geffen , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | All the points of her body that had been pressed against him were suddenly touched with fingers of ice . |
| 19 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 20 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 21 | His head had been propped against a rock which had attracted the lightning of a sudden thunderstorm : the bolt had hit the rock straight on and rolled down the rock — so they all swore — to stab him fatally in the neck . |
| 22 | He moved uncomfortably and his chair scraped against the dusty edge of the grate , dislodging a small carved piece of stone that had been propped against the hearth . |
| 23 | For example , it may be permissible to use the Apple logo for brandy ( providing it has not been registered against the wines and spirits class ) and there would be little danger of the public thinking it had anything to do with the computer company . |
| 24 | A new vaccine has been developed against Hepatitis A , which affects about ten million people world-wide each year . |
| 25 | The owners of smaller industrial enterprises usually retained many of the antiaristocratic views of the early nineteenth century , when the bourgeoisie had been struggling against the Old Regime . |
| 26 | Meanwhile Oxford University have been struggling against Nottinghamshire at the Parks.The visitors declared at two hundred and twenty four ( 224 ) for four . |
| 27 | Right they 've er they 've been preaching against Spanish slates . |
| 28 | Once a major effort has been completed against either a warren or a burrow system it can be expected that the area has been fairly well cleared . |
| 29 | Now she waited as he probed and cut and then compared what had been exposed against the diagram spread across the double page . |
| 30 | Tom Harvey prepares a cost and sales report weekly : This simply shows total sales ( based on the waiters ' checks , which have been checked against cash receipts and any credit bills ) and cost of food sold ( based on an analysed kitchen day book which records opening stocks , purchases and closing stocks ) . |