Example sentences of "[noun sg] was against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , Mosley had tried to reassure the country that persecution of race or religion was against the fundamental tenets of Fascism as it had evolved in England . |
| 2 | The Conservative party in opposition was against the opening of the University , but now they claim they are four square behind it . |
| 3 | Does he agree that it ill behoves the Labour party to comment on that because Labour was against the channel tunnel at its inception ? |
| 4 | Teachers said 12-year-old Tommy Woods 's new wedge-style cut was against the school rules . |
| 5 | The bar was against the far wall , plentifully stocked and presided over by a bleached blonde in a white beaded sweater . |
| 6 | His assistant , Douglas Morgan , was a new cap in that 1973 game and even in more recent years , McGeechan 's first home Five Nations match as senior coach was against the Welsh ( the 23-7 triumph in 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Scrutiny 's earliest and most protracted campaign was against the positivism of traditional literary scholarship . |
| 8 | Labour 's war was against the German nation , not just the Nazis . |
| 9 | His war was against the Nazis , Biggins decided . |
| 10 | ‘ He accepts that what took place was against the will of the girl and that he must take the consequences . ’ |
| 11 | David Curry , Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries & Food , concluded that the balance of opinion was against the regulation and significant amendments would have to be made to the proposal to make it acceptable . |
| 12 | Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match . |
| 13 | Flacks and his colleagues , opposed to the public company which they feel is designed to produce dividends for major shareholders rather than quality signings , said : ‘ Every speaker at the meeting was against the plc . |
| 14 | He will be criminally liable unless he was so insane as either ‘ not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ’ , or ‘ not to know that what he was doing was against the law ’ . |
| 15 | I learned to use humour against violence ; when my back was against the wall and the bullies were bearing down , some inner voice would lash out with wit enough to take the wind from the sails of my antagonists . |
| 16 | There was a signal — presumably a distant — about a quarter of a mile in advance of the junction signals , and that should have indicated that the junction signal was against the BCR train . |
| 17 | In addition , he argued that legalizing adoption was against the teaching of ‘ the church ’ . |
| 18 | His whole inclination was against the violence all around him and against the insurrection it bred . |
| 19 | These examples gave the journalists the story for which they were looking , and they used them in headlines to show that our Report was against the teaching of grammar and ‘ correct ’ English , and that we favoured a policy of ‘ anything goes ’ . |
| 20 | The challenge was against the conclusion he drew — not against his hereditarian assumptions or his statistical expertise . |
| 21 | If Lascubé 's play was against the laws , how about the fact that English no.8 Dean Richards punched a French player in the match against England in the Championship last year ? |
| 22 | A truly democratic government would have realised the populace was against the tax and abandoned it immediately . |
| 23 | " I 'm not seeing a girl , " Patrick insisted with a grin , his sister was as eager to see him married off as his mother was against the idea . |
| 24 | Dada was against the match : " Not a tosser , " he said , " and not a very tidy horseman either . " |