Example sentences of "opposed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the first , and in the end the most lasting , impression that one carries away , is of the contrast between the golden-cream light and space and the exquisite feeling of harmony engendered by the ceiling as opposed to the deep blue darkness and turmoil of the ‘ Last Judgment ’ . |
| 2 | The kind he likes he calls ‘ detail ’ , as opposed to ‘ long shots ’ — the equivalent , that is , of the long shots over-used by cameramen of the Iranian Revolution : ‘ it is through details that everything can be shown ’ — that truth can be shown . |
| 3 | It seems reasonable to think that The Facts is imagined , and that it could promote a benevolent view of the literal or faithful — as opposed to the fantastically transgressive — imagination , which may or may not , in any given case , be directly concerned with the facts of the author 's own life . |
| 4 | They tend to represent the ‘ religious ’ as opposed to the ‘ rough ’ end of the protestant spiritual spectrum . |
| 5 | At one point , the protestants who are involved in violence are rough as opposed to religious , especially if they drink and smoke and do not follow the norms of thrift . |
| 6 | Shift the context and the same men become insiders as opposed to outsiders such as catholics and , presumably , even castle catholics . |
| 7 | But one must remember that the divergent reading of the Christian myth by Reformation and Counter-Reformation is at the heart of the religious as opposed to the rough interpretation of the conflict . |
| 8 | It announced that , if doctrine as opposed to Bible stories was to be a part of school education , then such religious education could not adopt a common denominator approach between the churches , but had to be total in its presentation of what the Roman catholic church considered to be the truth , otherwise such an approach would be ‘ dangerous ’ for the children ( Gaine 1968 : 164 ) . |
| 9 | Learning , singing , and praying are rolled up into one : catechesis , as opposed to dialogue or concerned interest for religious matters . |
| 10 | Kate Smith , joint proprietor of the Beetle and Wedge Inn with her husband , Richard , tries to define the skills of restaurant management as opposed to those or the chef |
| 11 | They claim to have an instinctive talent , as opposed to men chefs who have to learn the mechanics of their craft . |
| 12 | As he admitted , ‘ In real life ( as opposed to his novel ) there was repression … |
| 13 | Indeed , his treatment of this first book ( and we shall see that it is not very dissimilar from the others ) is a blatant piece of eisogesis — reading into ( as opposed to exegesis , out of ) the text what he wishes to see , or rather plant . |
| 14 | Though applied to others of a given authority or holiness , it refers principally to one of the most influential personages in Ashkenazi ( eastern European ) Judaism , who followed the Palestinian traditions ( as opposed to the Babylonian ones represented in its version of the Talmud ) : Israel ben Eliezer ( Leonard 's spiritual forebear , after whom he was named ) — an 18th century Pole , the founder of the Hasidic movement ; one whose religious awareness was very close to that which inspired Leonard , his mother and his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein . |
| 15 | And in the point-of-sale material just a headline as opposed to the two sentences you have now ? |
| 16 | This predicament arises out of the demise of consciousness , when only consciousness , understood in a traditional way , can bring us face to face with , and hence give us any grasp on , the qualitative , as opposed to relational , properties . |
| 17 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 18 | This derives not so much from the basic raw material — barley that has been malted — or the seasoning of hop flowers , as it does from the top-fermenting yeasts used in the making of ales ( as opposed to the bottom type employed in lagers ) . |
| 19 | People opposed to bolts have , variously , cited planning controls and conservation designations and by implication , or overtly , have accused those who drill placements as being somehow anti-environment and those opposed to their activities as being defenders of a wholesome tradition . |
| 20 | People opposed to bolts have , variously , cited planning controls and conservation designations and by implication , or overtly , have accused those who drill placements as being somehow anti-environment and those opposed to their activities as being defenders of a wholesome tradition . |
| 21 | Nevertheless he does possess a yellow face as opposed to lodging in a yellow room , or handling yellow money , or being issued ( the bureaucracy ! ) with a yellow ticket . |
| 22 | But in the Epilogue , as opposed to the body of Crime and Punishment , people do n't torture animals or bear the mark of Peter the German . |
| 23 | At yet another , we will never get there since a stream of tendency has been caught and held in new-visioned ( as opposed to far-sighted ) iconic stasis , and there can be no movement on out of the world we live in into the book we read . |
| 24 | More exactly , he becomes man-god as opposed to God-man who is the Christ of Christianity . |
| 25 | What makes the commentators on man-godhood and related themes misleading , why they fail to evoke the real thing , is that they suggest an object which is stable and personal ( as opposed to volatile and transpersonal ) . |
| 26 | Modern ignition coils are of low inductance with ballast resistors for improved cold starting ; inductive discharge circuits , as opposed to the older capacitive discharge types , require the discharge of typically 6A , a bipolar transistor needing safe-operating-area clamps , which increase both cost and dissipation . |
| 27 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 28 | It liked the fact that the chef there , Jean-Yves Gueho , was actually French — as opposed to Swiss , German or Chinese ; and that the long dining room , decorated with glass cupolas , achieved an ecclesiastical dignity . |
| 29 | But senators opposed to the bases vowed to block its passage , calling it illegal . |
| 30 | Communists opposed to the bases shot dead two US base employees during his visit . |