Example sentences of "[is] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | She displays more sympathy for this anti-Semitic Moses , for this religious man who is against Jews and against the Soviet system , than she does for Jews who are not religious . |
| 2 | He is against ‘ Greatbritain ’ , with its aristocratic capitalists , its MI5 and its MI6 . |
| 3 | He is against racism and sexism , but is capable of reflecting : ‘ He was in love with Alison Houston . |
| 4 | What the Campaign is against is fake , poor quality imitation lagers being foisted on unsuspecting drinkers and passed off as being genuinely European or Australian . |
| 5 | It is against this background and out of this environment that YOUNG SOUL REBELS came about . ’ |
| 6 | The person holding the wing-tip should always run the down wind wing-tip so that any pull that he may exert is against the weathercocking swing into the wind . |
| 7 | This , I believe , is against the law , but it is a law that deserves to be broken , for it is the puritanical nonsense of excluding children — and therefore to some extent , women — from pubs that has turned these places into mere boozing-shops instead of the family gathering-places that they ought to be . ’ |
| 8 | One top too many is against tradition |
| 9 | Sir : Roy Hattersley says that he is against electoral reform as it would stop the Labour Party winning an overall majority . |
| 10 | It is against this background , and that of desperate economic crisis in the entire Soviet Union , that IME is supposed to proceed . |
| 11 | Such an approach , he says , is against the instincts of English players . |
| 12 | The officers know that time is against them as new descriptions from members of the public may be distorted by sight of the published artist 's impressions . |
| 13 | The House passed a bill on Wednesday that would provide abortion funds for poor women who become pregnant as a result of rape or incest , funding which Mr Bush is against . |
| 14 | Conversely , on the materialist model it is much more homophobia itself , as an aspect of the construction of homosexuality and independently of the question of the actual subjective repression of desire , which helps secure a coerced identity and social organization ; homophobia enforces the heterosexual norm by policing its boundaries : ‘ Homophobia is only incidentally directed against homosexuals — its more common use is against the 49% of the population which is male … |
| 15 | As we shall see , it is against and ( again ) in terms of this metaphysic that dress violation occurred . |
| 16 | Divorce is against my wife 's principles but she might get ideas as to a legal separation . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That class o ’ talk is against the Catholic Church — against all the laws o' God and man . |
| 18 | Polgar is against conventional schooling , he says , because ‘ it did not make learning a beloved activity . ’ |
| 19 | The opening home game is against Rome on April 16 . |
| 20 | The opening home game is against Rome on April 16 . |
| 21 | The Soviet tourists ' opening game is against Cornwall at Redruth on Saturday , and the tour ends with a match against England B at Northampton on December 23 . |
| 22 | So far the senior , underground leadership is against that . |
| 23 | ‘ The praesidium decided not to support the 1990 budget and the party is against the ( government 's ) housing programme . |
| 24 | I think there 's a certain numbness in the world today … that accepts certain kinds of violence , but is against other kinds of violence. , |
| 25 | Germany , deferential ( as always ) to its farm lobby , is against price cuts . |
| 26 | Unlike Europe , America is against welfare payments available to everybody without a job , even those who have never worked . |
| 27 | If he is doing what is against conscience , he is injuring his soul — remember that the Chancellor is an ecclesiastic — and it is better that he should be prevented from inflicting such injury on himself . |
| 28 | If a Chancellor has decided that certain conduct in one case is against conscience , he is likely to decide that similar conduct is against conscience in another : the chances are that another Chancellor will decide the same . |
| 29 | If a Chancellor has decided that certain conduct in one case is against conscience , he is likely to decide that similar conduct is against conscience in another : the chances are that another Chancellor will decide the same . |
| 30 | The dog 's favourite bush , a hypercium , is against a wall , about six feet from the front door . |