Example sentences of "[is] a [noun sg] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a fight against all that dehumanises , blocks and blights those who are made in God 's image and do n't know their God-given potential in the present and in a future which goes beyond the grave . |
| 2 | I prayed to him furiously in the van when I thought I was going to die ( that 's a proof against , I can hear G.P. saying ) . |
| 3 | Do you think that there 's a bias against women giving women erm the top positions of power on the County , because that 's where you would know , the County , we could talk to somebody else maybe about the City . |
| 4 | There 's a grudge against Tom because he drops in on everyone . |
| 5 | ‘ Unless there 's a plot against the Throne . |
| 6 | Goal of the week ; it 's a goal against I 'm afraid . |
| 7 | Yeah so it 's a revolt against sort of social |
| 8 | But now there 's a vaccine against the virus . |
| 9 | He says the difficulty is that the site is on the Oxford greenbelt and therefore there 's a presumption against any commercial development . |
| 10 | After he was pulled out of the tour following a four-match ban and then seeing Wakefield 's Michael Jackson make the trip after picking up a similar suspension , Goulding probably feels there 's a vendetta against him . |
| 11 | Whether there 's a boycott against them ? |
| 12 | It 's a precaution against losing any work through the computer , you see . ’ |
| 13 | Okay ? it 's a statement against your own interest . |
| 14 | He knew that it 's a sin against himself , his own soul , he knew that what he was doing was against justice , it was against the advice of his wife , it was against everything within him and yet he still pursues this , this cause of having Jesus put to death . |
| 15 | Do you think there 's a prejudice against women playing football or do you think it 's easy fo for women to play football ? |
| 16 | There is a vaccine against the A and C strains meningococcal meningitis . |
| 17 | We have seen that a small skull for a very tall animal is a protection against severe head injuries . |
| 18 | The Chinese believe that the clavicle , a small bone embedded in the shoulder muscle , is a protection against evil . |
| 19 | Standing small and shaky before that vast desk , surrounded by all the trappings of success and power , I felt very helpless and the cigarette seemed about as much of a morale-builder as a pocket-handkerchief is a protection against a firing-squad . |
| 20 | There is a warning against greed . |
| 21 | Conservatism is a polemic against Conservatism and more particularly Thatcherism , but Honderich 's own work raises the question as to whether the two are related . |
| 22 | So how can people say there is a bias against coloured players ? |
| 23 | ‘ There is a bias against the South , ’ he said . |
| 24 | There probably is a law against it ! |
| 25 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |
| 26 | As he said , the principle that there is a privilege against self-incrimination has been recognised for centuries . |
| 27 | There 's a theory being nurtured in certain quarters that Microsoft Corp Windows NT is less a strategic product than it is a dike against Unix and that Microsoft is trying to freeze the marketplace long enough to bring on Cairo , the Taligent Inc/Sun Microsystems Inc Project Distributed Objects Everywhere-like object-oriented environment it 's working on . |
| 28 | The plant was described by the ancient Greeks to improve eyesight ad this belief continued and travelled to Britain where Gerard recommended : " that the herb a little boiled or skalded and kept in pickle as Sampier ( samphire ) and eaten , quickens the sight " , or : " applied with honey and the juice of Fennell , is a remedie against dim eies " . |
| 29 | ‘ Of what use is a dagger against four ? ’ demanded Thomas gloomily . |
| 30 | Yudkin is a campaigner against processed sugar , the sort used in massive quantities in many processed foods . |