Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been resting against his trunk and now he could see what had happened to it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Oxford University have been struggling against Nottinghamshire at the Parks.The visitors declared at two hundred and twenty four ( 224 ) for four . |
| 6 | Right they 've er they 've been preaching against Spanish slates . |
| 7 | Headteachers have been lobbying against education cuts which they say will mean larger classes and fewer teachers . |
| 8 | But ever since you 've gone they 've been conspiring against me , plotting , and — ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps in an effort to justify this simplification , some instructors have been warning against the use of the rudder to stop the yaw if a wing drops at the stall . |
| 10 | The court was told that Dawtrey had been racing against the other Metro shortly before the crash in the village of Nuneham Courtenay , where there is a 40mph restriction . |
| 11 | Who had been whispering against him — was it Tersteeg ? |
| 12 | She should have been rebelling against her parents , not against him . |
| 13 | Did he take the opportunity on that occasion to co-ordinate the campaign of lies and vilification that the Rothermere press has been conducting against the Labour party ? |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose you 've been speaking against her ? ’ he added angrily to Joseph Poorgrass . |
| 15 | Until today 's new proposals Britain had been cautioning against such an operation because of the dangers to aircrew and the risk of killing or injuring people on the ground . |
| 16 | But Britain has been cautioning against such an operation because of the dangers to aircrew and the risk of killing or injuring people on the ground . |
| 17 | They had been demonstrating against calls by other students for Iran 's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be promoted to the rank of Grand Ayatollah . |
| 18 | Environmentalists have been demonstrating against plans to dump waste from Germany in Gloucestershire . |
| 19 | The accident on the westbound carriageway was witnessed by members of the Faslane protest camp who had been demonstrating against the convoy . |
| 20 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
| 21 | They 've been protesting against the council 's decision to stop the car park there from being women only . |
| 22 | Library users have been protesting against plans to close libraries as part of a cost-cutting exercise . |
| 23 | The coordinator Rebecca Johnson says they failed to re-establish contact with the vessel , which had been protesting against the resumption of nuclear testing on the island . |
| 24 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 25 | But the pressure did n't help , and nor did the night air , nor any of the great machinery of circumstance that had , without her realising it , been combining against her to produce this moment . |
| 26 | It does not help that the Singapore dollar has been appreciating against not only the greenback but also the currencies of Singapore 's three main trading rivals : Hong Kong , Taiwan and Korea . |
| 27 | The poll results provided a morale boost for the Conservatives , who have been campaigning against the background of a fierce economic recession . |
| 28 | Anne McIntosh , MEP for north east Essex , has been campaigning against UK rates of excise duty which , she says , are making people buy drink on the Continent rather than at British shops . |
| 29 | The country 's biggest bookseller W.H. Smith based in Swindon have been campaigning against any tax on books . |
| 30 | Defence counsel William Carter said Gould had been campaigning against drug abuse within the jail . |