Example sentences of "[being] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | WELLINGTON COLLEGE seem certain to have another good season , their latest victory being against St Edward 's , Oxford , 17-3 , writes Our Correspondent . |
| 2 | The aim of the war had also shifted emphasis from being against the threat of the Roman Catholicism and the excessive power of Charles I. It was now being directed more against the monarchy itself and the power of the bishops . |
| 3 | In addition to these defects , there is another reason why merely being against cruelty to animals is not enough . |
| 4 | To be for animal welfare , as distinct from merely being against animal cruelty , is to believe that we have a duty to improve the quality of animal life , by ensuring — so far as this is possible — that other animals are the beneficiaries of what is good for them , not merely that we should avoid being cruel to them . |
| 5 | There is , then , something in the idea of being for animal welfare we all can accept , just as there is something in the ideas of being against cruelty and for human responsibility and animal protection . |
| 6 | Likewise , on a bill of rights , being against Hattersley was , in some quarters , almost an end in itself . |
| 7 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 8 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't take any notice of this pessimistic talk about statistics being against Leger winners in the Arc . |
| 10 | Thus , these subcultures respectively enable corporate officials and lower-class adolescent males to commit crimes without too many pangs of conscience ; through their sanitizing prism , each sub-culture softens criminal acts so that they assume the appearance of ‘ not really ’ being against the law , or it transforms them into acts required by a morality higher than that enshrined in a parochial criminal law . |
| 11 | Indeed , anything could be proclaimed as being against state interest . |
| 12 | By an attitude is meant any way of being in favour of or of disfavouring ( of being against ) something . |
| 13 | How far this influenced some members of the government it is difficult to say but I have no doubt it was one of the factors which led to a majority being against abolition . |
| 14 | In our opinion , in all three cases , a promise made by A to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do should be enforced by the law , provided that in other respects such as legality and compatibility with public policy it is free from objection ; thus a promise in return for an agreement by a police authority to give precisely the amount of protection it was by law bound to give and no more should be unenforceable as being against public policy . |
| 15 | Please do not leave the board mounted OS map on the wall , prop it down by table between cushions — sounds dotty but I hope it will keep it dryer rather than being against damp wall . |
| 16 | Pemberton only 2 bookings away from suspension after coming to leeds with 8 points ( One of the bookings being against leeds at elland rd ) and picking up bookings in his first two games . |
| 17 | Formerly , the villagers used to eat turtle eggs and flesh , despite this being against the law . |
| 18 | But , just as nobody actually eats babies , so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against . |
| 19 | However , the managements of the new privatised companies not surprisingly vetoed this option as being against shareholder interests . |