Example sentences of "one against " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must balance the movements one against the other to give proportion and emphasis as well as dimension . |
| 2 | Now , the Talleyrand-Perigords have , as their name implies , been mighty lords in Perigord since the early Middle Ages , and in the early poem ‘ Near Perigord ’ Talleyrand is one of the powerful and menacing neighbours whom Bertrand de Born has to play off one against another , thus earning ( so Pound 's poem suggests ) the title which Dante gives him in the Inferno , ‘ sower of strife ’ . |
| 3 | The second , seven minutes later , came courtesy of a ludicrous back-pass by Ian Stewart , which left Atkinson one on one against the unfortunate David Coles , who picked the wrong night to return to the Aldershot goal after injury . |
| 4 | By releasing five senior officers imprisoned for crimes committed while they ran the country , from 1976 to 1983 , President Carlos Menem may have hoped to eliminate much of the discontent that lay behind three rebellions against his predecessor , Raul Alfonsin , and one against himself on December 3rd . |
| 5 | 1984 was Allan Lamb 's annus mirabilis , with three centuries against West Indies and one against Sri Lanka . |
| 6 | I did not know what to say in reply , so I took his hands and held them beside my own , showing first the backs , then the palms , then measuring them one against the other , palm to palm — something the Japanese would often do in comparing their smaller , lighter hands with my grosser ones . |
| 7 | He had heard their laughter , their long silences and the chink of their wine-glasses one against the other . |
| 8 | The history in this case describes a conflict between neighbours rather than one against the state . |
| 9 | Since the full tanks weighing about 240 tons each are in balance , one against the other ( by Archimedes ' principle , the loading of the vessels into the tank makes no difference to the overall weight of the tank ) , only a small amount of power is necessary to cause them to move . |
| 10 | The likeliest thing to happen is that you leg it because , in a hullabaloo , you are one against two … |
| 11 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |
| 12 | But maybe not , for on each side , one for , one against were ‘ Mr Graham ( merchant ) and Mr J. Nicolson ( merchant ) . ’ |
| 13 | All the six activities ( in this case ) can then be carefully balanced , one against another to achieve an overall picture of the topic . |
| 14 | He hit one against Liverpool ( H 1–3 ) and another to secure a point at Manchester United ( 1–1 ) in 1969–70 , while in 1970–71 he stunned Leeds with a late equaliser ( H 1–1 ) and at Ipswich his penalty set us on the way to a 2–1 win . |
| 15 | It was a stupid thing , he thought , three gold baubles on springs that set up a continual motion , banging one against the other , and he kept it on his desk only to please her . |
| 16 | But that offence is one against propriety , against what a community may find appropriate to a particular time or place . |
| 17 | The poachers used stones to frighten their rabbits into the net , walking about and rattling one against the other . |
| 18 | However , getting the temperature just right for life to arise on a planet is so unlikely that the chances of it occurring are billions to one against . |
| 19 | The Infinity 's shape seems to be a sort of half-Les Paul , half-Stratocaster hybrid : the offset horns of the one against the rounded lower half of the other . |
| 20 | The Springboks ( I hope the name will be kept ) are to play eight matches in France and four in England , including one against England ‘ B ’ . |
| 21 | For the Wallabies it is case of ‘ two down and four to go ’ — three tests against New Zealand and one against South Africa . |
| 22 | During the week of July 20 to 24 , picked at random , the Daily Mail reported 12 violent crimes against women and one against men . |
| 23 | But the attack on words is only another social crime — one against the means and the hope of communication . |
| 24 | Then she marched back to the front of the class , dusting off her hands one against the other like someone who has been handling something rather grimy . |
| 25 | The traditional examination emphasized recall of knowledge , external assessment , the ranking of pupils one against another and , perhaps most important of all , the provision of information suitable for selection . |
| 26 | Australia lost the Ashes in 1953 , New Zealand won one and lost one against Australia in 1974 , Australia won two of the three 1908 matches against a fully aitched England , and even West Indies lost one of the three Tests they played in 1966 with their four Hs . |
| 27 | The Bradley business now had the benefit of more than one representative calling regularly and Carrie played them off one against the other . |
| 28 | ‘ I always score one against the Germans , ’ he commented . |
| 29 | Each has systematic ways of dealing with apparently awkward cases and there is no hope of specifying neutral conditions for testing one against the other and thus deciding between them . |
| 30 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |