Example sentences of "have 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 | Which would have been very attractive , unobtrusive and none of us would have been against it , and when they came to put in the application to convert it , making it a meter wider and turn that into an extra bedroom or whatever was , we said that there was no parking , and we said what would happen and East Devon went ahead and approved that , and exactly in everything we 've said which was recorded in this council |
| 8 | Though since she had taken only one glass of wine , she knew that when everything should have been against her feeling in any way relaxed she must thank Ven , and his charm as a host , for the fact that she was feeling so entirely at ease with him . |
| 9 | It seems to have been against creative law that the female should be endowed with morals . |
| 10 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 11 | The home affairs ministry had been against American requests to relax the law that protects small shopkeepers by making it hard for supermarkets and department stores ( big importers all ) to open branches in their neighbourhoods . |
| 12 | He had been against the choice of London as the location for European Headquarters when he had been Treasurer . |
| 13 | Local opinion was outraged ; Price was brought to trial and would have been convicted by the jury if the judge had not insisted that his offence had been against morals and not against the law . |
| 14 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 15 | He had been against it , too . |
| 16 | ‘ They had been against one another for a long time . |
| 17 | Our recent low-key attempts at publicity , the Day to Day programme , the press conference to mark the three hundredth day and a few other interviews — had been fairly successful and had n't offended or worried Pat or Sheila , although Roby had been against them . |
| 18 | Though Wyatt had been against the Seven , he had played no part in the murder of Minister Lwo . |
| 19 | The Shah , according to Afshar , replied that the British and American ambassadors had been against it ; they thought it was better to have a quiet man like Azhari who could discuss problems with mullahs leading the revolutionary ferment . |
| 20 | Like him , she had been against destroying the revolution with massive bloodshed . |
| 21 | Both sets of parents had been against the marriage , but she and Gordon had persisted , drawn closer by the opposition . |
| 22 | She knew it had been against his better judgement ; that all his own instincts had told him to wait , to take it more slowly . |
| 23 | His hand was hard , the skin warm , the pressure firm , as forceful against her own palm as his mouth had been against hers . |
| 24 | Talabani , in Ankara on Oct. 26-28 for talks with Demirel and with European and United States representatives protested that both operations had been against civilian areas . |
| 25 | Some reports said that the operation had been against a training camp for Islamic fundamentalists and army deserters established by Said Mekhloufi , a former army officer said to be now allied with the FIS . |
| 26 | In the early stages of the war , most of Free France 's fighting , by force of circumstances , had been against other Frenchmen — in Africa , the Middle East , and elsewhere . |
| 27 | Danny had mercifully been persuaded to leave his ghetto-blaster behind , but this had been against his better judgement , and Rachel soon realised his silence was in fact a form of sulking . |
| 28 | I 've not been against lines of communication , I 've been against excessive expenditure on such . |
| 29 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 30 | Yeah , but they 're not , the whole idea is that they 're not , they do n't wan na ask , they 're not prepared to ask it 's not right It should be provided by the school they 've been against that whole thing . |