Example sentences of "against this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against this monologic Amis can be set , by way of alter ego , the modernistic Amis of Barbara Everett 's discussion of Difficulties with girls , which occurred in the course of an essay on Hugh Kenner 's fantasy of a British betrayal of Modernism , and which springs the surprise of conveying that Amis , so often supposed an enemy of Modernism , is really a Modernist . |
| 2 | It is against this background and out of this environment that YOUNG SOUL REBELS came about . ’ |
| 3 | You may say , against this , that there can surely be some form of appearance/reality distinction so long as the input systems can deliver up information about such objective facts as occlusion . |
| 4 | Against this , Ryan advanced the humanistic belief that the major canonical texts are not inherently reactionary , and that they contain implicit images and models of human freedom which transcend their immediate historical context and which later readers can respond to . |
| 5 | But against this ? |
| 6 | ‘ The campaign of hostility and accusations against this church and her priests does not help reforms , but hinders them . |
| 7 | In the end , I do n't believe the poll tax justifies a vote against this Government in a general election . |
| 8 | It is against this background , and that of desperate economic crisis in the entire Soviet Union , that IME is supposed to proceed . |
| 9 | Against this background , Citroen is launching a new executive car , the XM . |
| 10 | Yet others rebel against this marginalization and demand both the right to perform the full range of police work ( from which follows the wish to carry guns ) and that men should become more involved in dealing with child and female offences . |
| 11 | Their infringement should not be serious , and some considerations can undercut the status , such as managerial instructions warning against this form of discretion , or knowledge about past contact with the police . |
| 12 | Column 2 against this will tell you the qualifying week , which is fifteen weeks before the baby is due . |
| 13 | How does any society protect itself against this kind of comprehensive assault , which does not even need the charcoal , sulphur and saltpetre to make the gunpowder but can find the materials for the application of its marvellous discovery anywhere in the world and in any circumstances ? |
| 14 | Against this first idea of culture he sets a second definition at once wider and ‘ more fundamental ’ . |
| 15 | I took against this practice and reflected later that ‘ God Save the people of Wallsend ’ would have been more appropriate , for few in authority cared much , let alone had the power to assuage the people 's meagre needs . |
| 16 | These stated : ‘ Everybody who calls himself or herself a Christian must now rally to the side of Christ and defend Him , not only with their rosaries and prayers but by protesting in a public and persistent manner against this film . ’ |
| 17 | Against this the Chiefs of Staff reiterated their view of the strategic importance of the Middle East and the belief that the area must be dominated either by Britain or the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | It was against this backdrop that the individualist liberal economics of Spencer , Dicey , the LPDL , and the BCA moved towards the centre of the Conservative Party 's thinking , as economic liberalism and the minimal state became attractive in terms of consolidating a coalition against a Labour party presented as high taxers and high spenders . |
| 19 | The 26-valve GTi pales into insignificance against this car and it 's difficult to see how the three-door Rallye road car could convincingly better this Golf stablemate . |
| 20 | In such things the colour would be crude , if it could be copied , but against this pale blue yet fixedly cloudless sky it was not crude . |
| 21 | To set against this the prosaic virtues of humility and obedience , and to make them seem not merely right but also interesting , is — when the writer is a fallen creature writing for other fallen creatures — an impossible task . |
| 22 | The revolt of the Bonn government against this antique thinking can be seen as the starting point for the great burst of German national assertion which culminated yesterday in the streets of Berlin . |
| 23 | ‘ I may be against this on principle but I do n't see why I should n't be able to make a little bit of capital , ’ he added . |
| 24 | Against this the Barlow Clowes fiasco , in which small investors lost up to £100million , reflected most critically on Fimbra members , who had recommended the company . |
| 25 | Each had appealed against this finding , and each appeal had been turned down . |
| 26 | Against this view of love as contract , Cave , in The Birthday Party , was almost alone in reinvoking love as malady , monologue , abject dependence , whose ultimate expression could only be violence : the recurrent theme of girl-murder , or at the opposite pole the paroxysm of desire in ‘ Zoo Music Girl ’ , ‘ Oh ! |
| 27 | Against this , the conduct of the electricians , the nuclear operators and the firefighters seems both heroic and hopeless . |
| 28 | But , thanks both to Daimler 's bad luck and bad judgment , the odds against this ever happening are high — and getting higher . |
| 29 | Against this background Locke begins his inquiry into the origin and extent of knowledge . |
| 30 | It was against this background that Peter Thompson , the chief executive of NFC , together with his chairman , Bobby Lawrence , came to see me in my small office on the Cabinet floor of the House of Commons on 18 May 1981 . |