Example sentences of "that against " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Break up … ‘ ' is about a string of friends I had who were very intense people and at that age , when your friends talk about the slim separation between life and death — and you set that against the fact that this period of your youth is supposed to be the most playful and reckless — well , if you utilized that period in a very intense way , that feeling never really leaves you . ’
2 It is possible that against a long-term downward movement of population , perhaps sparked off by a variety of economic concerns , the economic depression helped to determine the immediate attitudes in some of the old declining industrial centres just as the prospect of prosperity , and the accumulation of consumer goods and property , may have stimulated a desire to control family size among the population of the expanding industrial centres of the Midlands and the South East .
3 Walls and floor and ceiling and benches were all covered in grey soft smooth plastic that against all odds still managed to look grubby .
4 But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution .
5 They give us something , and you could see that against Norwich , ’ he added .
6 It is fair to say , though , that against this basic drive all minds also possess a wish to ignore principles and concentrate instead on single entities regardless of their place in larger systems , to appreciate them simply for themselves .
7 As a general point , however , if you plan your finances with a specific objective in view , you may find that against expectations a notion that first seemed impossible is actually affordable .
8 Some four years after a belated introduction to the first-class fold at the ripe old age of 27 , the quick from St Kitts did precisely that against Kent in a remarkable match at Guildford , then improved the bowling mark with 6 for 30 against Durham a fortnight later .
9 When she heard my name given out , she was certain that against all the odds it was the boy she had played with — and tried to make understand her frantic sign language and European gibberish — more than 40 years earlier .
10 If you want to have children you 've got ta offset that against , for example , having a car or a new stereo , things which affect your lifestyle .
11 And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline .
12 He came to me and put his arms round me and said , " I 'm terribly glad , " and from the simple way he said it I knew that against all the evidence he had believed me , perhaps because he wanted to .
13 so that I can check that against the form and get the form
14 I wanted to confess to her once but balanced that against the need to be loved by her .
15 Is it surprising that against a background as inchoate as this a new and virile movement should have arisen , central to whose belief is the power and reality of the Holy Spirit ?
16 Erm or the the Y against I mean in this one if you You could plot that against X which is the normal way .
17 If you tried to plot that against Think of how you 'd do it if you had a graph and you plotted Y against three X squared plus two .
18 They always had in America that sort of er something er that against colonialism you see .
19 She wound her arms about his knees and dragged him laboriously across the gravel into the safe , thick grass ; his right cheek suffered , but he was hardly going to hold that against her if he survived .
20 At least when that happened , she would stop feeling his rejection so poignantly — stop caring about the fact that she disgusted him so much that he did n't want anything to do with her except sexually , and that against his will and to the damage of his self-respect .
21 Will he take this opportunity to confirm that it is the three strands that will form the basis of any future talks , and that against that background there will always be the Anglo-Irish Agreement , until the two Governments feel that they have something that transcends it ?
22 If we project that against total revenues expected in that year , it amounts to about one single day of revenue being allocated to the budget to implement the safety regime in the North sea .
23 The largest homogeneous group voting in favour was the urban middle class and that against was the rural poor .
24 So I 'd like to reflect that against what the government has done since our unique November conference they have cut the Health and Safety Executive 's budget for nineteen ninety three ninety four by five percent , that 's a total of thirteen million pounds the Department of Employment have already admitted this will lead to less inspections and less prosecutions they have introduced a market tex market testing exercise into the H S E in other words they 're saying what parts of the Health and Safety Executive can be privatized into , no doubt , their friends in industry they have made sure that Health that the Health and Safety Commission will work slower in the future by making the chair which is currently a full-time post a part-time post from September this year .
25 The prohibitions in question were those against parricide and incest ; but of these that against incest had priority because it was the occasion for the temptation to commit the latter .
26 In short , an attack on all cultural derivations of the censoring , criticizing , evaluating superego and , fundamentally , an assault on its most precious and primitive prohibition , that against incest — the ultimate limit , barrier and restraint both for the individual and the culture .
27 It is however felt by both Company and the County and District Councils that against the background of EEC directives , increasing regulations and a more open attitude to information , it is appropriate to fully inform the local residents about what to do if a major incident does occur .
28 I I must confess Mr I had some difficulty with the wording of P P G there when it says , unacceptable coalescence , er and trying to balance that against the expressed aim that this should be freestanding .
29 I I one 's always got to er balance that against for example Policy I eight which refers to small scale industrial development appropriate normally permitted in rural settlements .
30 th th they defend that against the Japanese and then in , early in forty seven the come in and take it over so it 's an enormous psychological shock erm and they recognize that erm they , they , they do need to er they recognize that the way is through mass support , they think that 's what they 've got ta get , and they 've got ta get it quickly .
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