Example sentences of "[been] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts , and I 've never used them . |
| 2 | The worst peasant uprisings in the Civil War had been against German expeditions in search of food supplies . |
| 3 | The home affairs ministry had been against American requests to relax the law that protects small shopkeepers by making it hard for supermarkets and department stores ( big importers all ) to open branches in their neighbourhoods . |
| 4 | He had been against the choice of London as the location for European Headquarters when he had been Treasurer . |
| 5 | Local opinion was outraged ; Price was brought to trial and would have been convicted by the jury if the judge had not insisted that his offence had been against morals and not against the law . |
| 6 | Market sentiment has been against the brewer this year , mainly due to concern about its slow progress in selling off 1,200 pubs before the government 's November deadline . |
| 7 | Party strategists acknowledge that the overwhelming weight of opinion polls has been against them — and that for Mr Major to win tomorrow he would need a movement in public opinion greater than that achieved in nine of the past 10 election campaigns . |
| 8 | It seems to have been against creative law that the female should be endowed with morals . |
| 9 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 10 | There have been more judgments against Britain at the European Court of Human Rights than there have been against any other country . |
| 11 | Saints boss Ian Branfoot said : ‘ Our best two displays of the season have been against Chelsea and Sheffield Wednesday this holiday weekend , and all we have to show for them is one point . ’ |
| 12 | He had been against it , too . |
| 13 | Mr Boren has a reputation for defying his party ( about a third of his votes over the past four years have been against the Democratic line ) and for changing his mind . |
| 14 | The conservation groups have challenged the Town hall in the courts , but the first judgment , of 5 June , has been against them . |
| 15 | ‘ They had been against one another for a long time . |
| 16 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 17 | Van Gogh 's idea of things had also been against him . |
| 18 | Our recent low-key attempts at publicity , the Day to Day programme , the press conference to mark the three hundredth day and a few other interviews — had been fairly successful and had n't offended or worried Pat or Sheila , although Roby had been against them . |
| 19 | Though Wyatt had been against the Seven , he had played no part in the murder of Minister Lwo . |
| 20 | The Shah , according to Afshar , replied that the British and American ambassadors had been against it ; they thought it was better to have a quiet man like Azhari who could discuss problems with mullahs leading the revolutionary ferment . |
| 21 | Like him , she had been against destroying the revolution with massive bloodshed . |
| 22 | Both sets of parents had been against the marriage , but she and Gordon had persisted , drawn closer by the opposition . |
| 23 | She knew it had been against his better judgement ; that all his own instincts had told him to wait , to take it more slowly . |
| 24 | His hand was hard , the skin warm , the pressure firm , as forceful against her own palm as his mouth had been against hers . |
| 25 | That is why many Opposition Members have consistently and persistently been against it . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman has for some time been against the original fast rail link through Kent and south London , and we have learnt tonight that he is against the current project , apparently because he believes that all British Rail 's money should be spent on saving his neck by improving the lousy commuter service that his constituents have had to tolerate for 13 years of Tory misrule — to use a well-known phrase from a couple of decades back . |
| 27 | Talabani , in Ankara on Oct. 26-28 for talks with Demirel and with European and United States representatives protested that both operations had been against civilian areas . |
| 28 | Some reports said that the operation had been against a training camp for Islamic fundamentalists and army deserters established by Said Mekhloufi , a former army officer said to be now allied with the FIS . |
| 29 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |
| 30 | In the early stages of the war , most of Free France 's fighting , by force of circumstances , had been against other Frenchmen — in Africa , the Middle East , and elsewhere . |