Example sentences of "against it " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the earthly role of the community , be it protestant or catholic , is not seen as secondary to the religious message , but as either in continuity with or against it . |
| 2 | There was division among the Roman catholic episcopate as well and as many favoured the system as were against it . |
| 3 | The two Roman catholic priests , who were in all respects dedicated pastors and much liked by many in the local community , immediately opposed the idea , preaching against it at Sunday masses in the local convent and the school hall . |
| 4 | perhaps if integrated schooling were more widespread in the North , more protestant voices would be heard against it , particularly if there was a possibility that a nun or priest might show up as a teacher in such an integrated school . |
| 5 | It must be impossible to stand up against it , he wrote , impossible to draw breath before it . |
| 6 | Leaned my forehead against it . |
| 7 | It explains why it is important that you are protected against it . |
| 8 | So it is particularly important for you to be protected against it . |
| 9 | Cameron slept instantly , and woke and dreamed and woke and dreamed for hours — the river , the cold shock of the water between his legs , the glimmer of light on the far shore , the current filling his mouth , he swam against it , it helped him , he struck out as smoothly as a seal , skimming effortlessly , he could power onwards forever , the water buoying him , his hand stroking it easily backwards without a splash … |
| 10 | Set against it is the Marxist-structuralist position , that finds the concepts of art and literature inherently oppressive . |
| 11 | Leavisites , of course , claimed that they were committed to discussion , argument , the free play of mind ; in so far as they were , it was contained within the enclosing form of life , not directed against it , rather like arguments within Marxist-Leninist ideology . |
| 12 | The experiment gave every indication that this would be possible and was a great technical success — but when the elected representatives were asked to agree a city-wide scheme , they voted against it . |
| 13 | Administration officials said that an emergency meeting of the National Security Council ( NSC ) considered deploying US troops to back the rebels on Tuesday , but decided against it . |
| 14 | THE MAGAZINE Private Eye will have to wait two to three weeks to find out whether it has won a retrial on libel damages of £600,000 awarded against it to Sonia Sutcliffe , wife of the Yorkshire Ripper . |
| 15 | He said that if the people were ready for negotiations , he would n't be against it . |
| 16 | ‘ If the people were ready for negotiations , he would n't be against it . |
| 17 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 18 | For example , on 11th Night a vehicle was called to some youths at a bonfire near to a middle-class suburban area , and a young recruit was keen to act , but an older constable urged against it : |
| 19 | The media certainly were biased — but towards the Conservative government , not against it ; and bias was very much more evident in the press than on television . |
| 20 | The partial reaction against it in the Tory 1950s — ‘ setting the people free ’ — did not lead to the contraction of the government service . |
| 21 | He would have to move into a school where the powerful names were still Bethune-Baker ( though he was retired ) and Marsh and Raven and he would be , intellectually speaking , up against it in a way that he was not at Durham . |
| 22 | That the letter came from Winston Churchill was a point against it . |
| 23 | Sweeney Agonistes , as much as the later prose of Arnold , is an attempt to come to terms with this situation and to react against it . |
| 24 | Its own strength is turned against it . |
| 25 | How could anything so demonstrably inferior to the real thing ever pretend to be it , and with such potential ( or feared ) success that the parliament of an ‘ advanced western democracy ’ must legislate against it ? |
| 26 | Recently the theoretical tide has turned against it . |
| 27 | The break with this structure of belonging can be announced only through a certain organisation , a certain strategic arrangement which , within the field of metaphysical opposition , uses the strengths of the field to turn its own stratagems against it , producing a force of dislocation that spreads itself throughout the entire system , fissuring it in every direction and thoroughly delimiting it . |
| 28 | They did not like it , argued against it — argued against the whole match — but she held firm . |
| 29 | I was very much against it when that brother of hers wanted her to go . |
| 30 | ‘ We support the Institute in their proposals but not when it comes to making something compulsory which we find simply turns people against it . ’ |