Example sentences of "of a [noun] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The devaluation or revaluation of a currency against the dollar was permitted only when a country faced a severe economic crisis . |
| 2 | The different reactions to the military adventures of James III and James IV owe much to that most fundamental aspect of rule , the ability to evoke enthusiasm and affection — love , as contemporaries would have said ; the former failed to inspire what the latter clearly got in such great measure that the Scots were willing to countenance the idea of a crusade against the Turks , and in 1513 were even prepared to break the habit of more than a century , of avoiding major pitched battles with the English . |
| 3 | The importance of this aspect of a partner 's duty will be readily apparent , for example , in relation to decisions taken at the insistence of a majority against the opposition of the remaining partners or where the question of a partner 's expulsion or compulsory retirement arises ( see Blisset v Daniel ( 1853 ) 10 Hare 493 ) . |
| 4 | Luckily , it confined its attentions to the goldfish pond while I balanced the relative merits of a net against the highly illegal option of a catapult . |
| 5 | Then the ledge below , the rock edge ripping his hands , and his shoulders almost jerked out of their sockets as he fought his boots flat for a hundredth of a second against the cliff face . |
| 6 | You are pitting the stamina of a sprinter against the rigours of a cross-country race . |
| 7 | In announcing the formal closing of a procedure against the Italian authorities alleging a breach of EC rules on state subsidies , the Commission recalled that the action was prompted by the Rome government 's failure to reply to an original request for information in July 1990 . |
| 8 | A Chinese master takes the full force of a spear against the throat . |
| 9 | Ironically for a quarrel which had arisen as a result of a revolt against the colonial taxation imposed to increase the revenue and retrench some of the expenditure on the Seven Years War , the American war doubled national expenditure from £131 million in 1775 to £245 million by 1783 . |
| 10 | He speaks of a battle against the Germans . |
| 11 | The two-page pamphlet consists of a diatribe against the philosophy of multiracialism and includes offensive remarks about ethnic minorities . |
| 12 | But , until Pyongyang opens up ( and the suppression of a plot against the ‘ blood-line of the Party ’ in February 1991 , suggests not everyone welcomes the prospect of Kim Jong II taking over ) , it seems safe to say that Romania under Ceauşescu ( like Iraq under Saddam ) had one of the most inbred political élites in the modern world . |
| 13 | Yesterday , The Mail on Sunday wrote of a plot against the Princess of Wales by an inner group of courtiers . |
| 14 | On Aug. 29 an amnesty was announced for all political prisoners , said by the authorities to number 66 ; of these 44 had been arrested after the inter-ethnic massacres of August 1988 , and the rest had been accused of a plot against the government in March 1989 . |
| 15 | Allegations of a plot against the government were again made following the arrest in October of dissident Koigi wa Wamwere on his return from exile in Norway and of three others . |
| 16 | At the Staffordshire Forest Eyre in 1286 John of Pendeford , a verderer of Cannock Forest , was convicted of a trespass against the venison . |
| 17 | There are rare occasions when a skilled contestant can turn the rigidity of a doctrine against the proponent of that doctrine — like the devil quoting scripture . |
| 18 | Nationally , 1909 was notable for a blunder in the House of Lords by the use of a veto against the Budget of that year , which had been prepared by the Liberal-Labour group in the House of Commons . |
| 19 | There was the light crack of a pebble against the pane . |
| 20 | Mr Gray , opening his case , explained how the the pamphlet was the culmination of a campaign against the peer by Mr Watts , who was pursuing an unpaid life insurance claim on the death of his brother-in-law in 1975 . |
| 21 | It became explicitly used as part of a campaign against the sexual abuse of children . |
| 22 | That drop was a consequence of a campaign against the use of knives in mid-1988 and the effects of section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 . |
| 23 | Uncle Titch had a bit of a grudge against the world . |
| 24 | Sterling was caught in the backwash of a run against the dollar . |
| 25 | The word of a European against the word of an Egyptian . |
| 26 | In the distance she heard the faint sounds of voices from the pool , and her dazed eyes rested on the green palm trees out on the terrace , while the dim light of the courtyard shut out the horrors of the morning , and she saw the gleaming white tower of a mosque against the deep sky and the far-off mountains , just as they had looked in the travel brochures . |
| 27 | It is the coach 's intention to have experience at the core of his team , bearing in mind the exceptional nature of the opposition , but Roxburgh did not rule out the possibility of a new arrival suddenly thrusting himself into consideration for one of Scotland 's remaining World Cup qualifying ties on the strength of a display against the Germans . |
| 28 | It would be astonishing if the Director 's powers to require relevant information about suspected offences from third parties were brought to an end by the bringing of a charge against the person under investigation . |
| 29 | It was certainly the theme of a protest against the building of a workhouse in 1785 which argued that it threatened " our liberty and laws " . |
| 30 | The man below could not have seen the movement , but he felt some shifting of the air above him , or heard , perhaps , if he had a wild beast 's hearing as he had its gait , the mere rustle of a sleeve against the stone . |