Example sentences of "a [noun] against the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The American Civil Liberties Union brought a case against the State , attempting to undo a new State law which requires that the creation theory be balanced alongside the theory of evolution in schools . |
| 2 | At this stage , Salford Council provided the Campaign with a furnished office which was then equipped with all the technology by companies and members , necessary for the purpose of building a case against the incinerators for presentation to an enquiry . |
| 3 | In terms of effects on the supply of work effort , a case against the current system of direct taxes and in favour of a switch towards indirect taxes might be made in the specific cases of poverty and unemployment traps . |
| 4 | The Office of Fair Trading brought a case against the Stock Exchange on the grounds of restrictive practice . |
| 5 | Originally it was thought that the bombings might be drug-related , but Vance had been involved in a case against the Ku Klux Klan in 1985 and Robinson had recently represented a black plaintiff in a school desegregation case . |
| 6 | What I intend to deal with is the record as it stands because anybody who 's going to argue a case against the decline of of any kind of system has to put the facts as they are , not as they would wish them to be , and I would argue that the legacy , before we can do that , the legacy which we inherited as a controlling group back in 1990 , is now a matter of record I would accept . |
| 7 | It also rejected a case against the Republic , when brothers Michael and Christopher McGimpsey of the UUP had tackled its territorial claim to Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | A CASTLEREAGH councillor believes the Fair Employment Commission pursued a case against the council because it had disputed figures . |
| 9 | Someone , somewhere , sometime will win a case against the tobacco industry . |
| 10 | The pound was fairly perky against the dollar , although it slipped a bit against the German mark . |
| 11 | While a boycott by the ND , Communist Party ( KKE-Exterior ) and several left-wing parties meant that the Pasok candidate had no strong challengers , over 70 per cent of the electorate turned out , responding to the Pasok description of the vote as a referendum against the government 's austerity measures . |
| 12 | For the Collector knew that he had to have earth as a cushion against the enemy cannons ; brickwork or masonry splinters or cracks , wood is useless ; only earth is capable of gulping down cannon balls without distress . |
| 13 | Indeed , one chronicler suggests that a rising against the oppressive behaviour of royal officials might easily have occurred . |
| 14 | While independence was being proclaimed in Hanoi on 2 September there was a rising against the French in Saigon . |
| 15 | What a hope against the pride of the German Navy ! |
| 16 | It is this extra sum which the estate is using as a stick against the BMC , in the hope that it will stump up the cash as the estate can not afford to invest this much in climbing . |
| 17 | Sometimes he simply hung over the bank and untied the boat , other times he rattled a stick against the boathouse door and shouted in a gruff , common voice — he was a good mimic — ‘ Who 's there ? |
| 18 | Most of the Habsburg successor states , as the Czech historian Zbynek Zeman reminded us in his vivid modern history of the region ( Pursued By A Bear : Chatto ) , were invented to serve the interests of the Western allies after the first world war , as a hedge against German expansion eastwards and a firebreak against the spread of revolution west from Russia . |
| 19 | She was wearing a robe against the cold , her hair in two pigtails that made her look curiously vulnerable . |
| 20 | Since the play was probably written before her dismissal , it is possible that Leapor is describing a struggle against the logic of her own ambitions . |
| 21 | She was dry-eyed but her expression just faintly betrayed a struggle against the pain of her injury . |
| 22 | Restoration is seen as a struggle against the forces of change and decay , which respect neither man nor materials . |
| 23 | This was accused of having " unleashed a struggle against the party from pseudo-radical positions under the flag of perestroika " . |
| 24 | John 's long struggle against Innocent 's interference in the appointment of Stephen Langton as archbishop of Canterbury had been superseded by a struggle against the baronage — his own vassals . |
| 25 | Resting ice cubes in a flannel against the rash or bathing in cool water may help . |
| 26 | A high bank with a ditch on one side , it was built between the estuaries of the Dee and Severn in the late eighth century by Offa , king of Mercia , not as a defence against the Welsh but to control trade across the border . |
| 27 | Unconsciously they create a smokescreen of confusion as a defence against the fear of being taken over . |
| 28 | At an unconscious level , distaste , lack of desire or avoidance of bodily intimacy may be used as a defence against the experience of ultimate aloneness which can follow the fusion of intercourse . |
| 29 | One may get displaced on to the other , or one , a problem in its own right , may be used as a defence against the other . |
| 30 | Local communities became less a defence against the pressures of a hostile world , more a basis for active resistance : . |