Example sentences of "would [be] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd be a brave person who would be against the Golf romping out the other end in front . |
| 2 | He questioned whether it would be possible to prosecute them with any chance of success with the present rules of evidence and he would be against proceeding if it meant changing the way in which the courts worked . |
| 3 | And it was given new nourishment by a series of Hitler speeches in late 1940 and early 1941 which aimed to strengthen confidence in final victory and create the impression that the decisive strike to end the war — people still presumed that it would be against Britain — would take place in the course of the next twelve months . |
| 4 | This would be against my nature . |
| 5 | But all the experimental evidence would be against you . |
| 6 | Whatever he did would be against him . |
| 7 | This would be against our own best interests and would be unjust to those looking after us . |
| 8 | However , our GP persuaded him that such a course would be against the public Health Act . |
| 9 | Clearly , business interests would be against any general proscription and particularly against strict liability , since then it ‘ would not be possible to know with any degree of certainty whether a proposed course of action was legal ’ ( Hopkins 1980b : 427 ) and that would deprive corporate executives of an essential precondition for entering or staying in the market , namely predictability . |
| 10 | She wept softly , while he held her and believed in the augury that this happiness could not possibly end in death on a battlefield , for such an end would be against all that was good and sweet and lovely in the world . |
| 11 | He would be against the lifting of the ban , would n't he ? |
| 12 | The usual retort that such a mandatory quota would be against EC regulations is a red herring . |
| 13 | ‘ If war breaks out , I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry . ’ |
| 14 | He then went on to consider whether the further proceedings would be against the children 's interests under four heads : ( 1 ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation ; ( 2 ) the fact that , under section 91(1) , if in respect of any child a residence order were made in favour of the foster mother , the existing care order to the local authority would be discharged ; ( 3 ) the shared parental responsibility between the foster mother and the mother which would result from section 12(2) conferring parental responsibility upon the foster mother if a residence order were to be made in her favour ; ( 4 ) the time that would be likely to elapse before any substantive order could be made . |
| 15 | Others were that ‘ need ’ as opposed to ‘ reasonable requirement ’ did not have to be shown , that the case for making an order against an officer of the company was stronger than it would be against a third party , that an order for oral examination ( as in Cloverbay itself ) was likely to be more oppressive than an order for the production of documents . |
| 16 | An arbitrary and unwarranted termination of their engagement would be against the organization 's own interests . |
| 17 | Another two inches and the burning cooker ring would be against his flesh . |
| 18 | But both Miliband and Poulantzas were unprepared to accept that what came out of this conflict over , and within , the state would be against the long-term interests of the ruling class . |
| 19 | Lanham suggests that if cases such as these were treated as rape , this would devalue the crime , which would be against the best interest of women . |
| 20 | On the 25th March 1993 Mr Howard updated the DoE guideline to planners thus ‘ it would be against the national interest to refuse planning permission for the extension of economic indigenous coal where the development can be carried out in an environmentally acceptable way . |
| 21 | The Home Guard became a joke for some and a remark once passed in my company was " What use do you think you would be against trained troops ? " . |
| 22 | As early as June 1992 the Wickert Research Institute , from a poll of 4,219 voters , showed that 74 per cent felt that Germany could no longer afford European Union ; 81 per cent wanted a referendum on monetary union ; 82 per cent of these said that they would be against replacing the Deutschmark with the ECU . |
| 23 | It would be against our interests to adopt a more protectionist and interventionist policy in aerospace , because it could lead to other countries adopting the same approach . |
| 24 | That would be against the interests of our industry . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend is right to pinpoint the fact that it would be against the interests of British Airways and Rolls-Royce for politicians to second-guess the commercial decision making of private companies . |
| 26 | ‘ The fight I 'd love would be against McMillan and it nearly happened before he lost his WBO title . |
| 27 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
| 28 | US officials would not provide details of Shevardnadze 's response , but Soviet sources indicated that he had refused , claiming that Soviet public opinion would be against such a deployment . |
| 29 | It can be seen that any contractual remedy that P2 has would be against P1 . |
| 30 | The Khedive , the Minister of Justice , the Parquet , the British — the British would be against it , too , particularly if this damned Agreement was still on the cards . |