Example sentences of "is set against " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sociologist , as I shall illustrate , is the despised , hairy , intellectual subversive , who is set against the ‘ clean and ordered British bobby ’ . |
| 2 | The size of barrier needed is set against the need to maintain volumes . |
| 3 | This book is set against the breakdown of the pattern in recent times , the next will concentrate on peasants who have moved to the city . |
| 4 | just as there is a tension between the evolutionary ups and downs of the hairy epileptic on the bed who ‘ Jacknifes upward ’ , and the shaving ‘ Sweeney Erect ’ , so there is set against the prostrate unreason indicated by ‘ The epileptic on the bed [ who ] / Curves backward , clutching at her sides , another woman who later walks upright : |
| 5 | Omit the baskets on one side for a buffet table if it is set against the wall |
| 6 | This creature is set against a background recalling the Somme 1916 ( shell craters , explosions , etc ) . |
| 7 | This hotel is set against a pleasant backdrop of tree-covered slopes . |
| 8 | Scheffau is set against the backdrop of the stunning Ellmauer Halt , the highest peak in the Wilder Kaiser mountain range . |
| 9 | Richly atmospheric , ‘ Bondagers ’ is set against the sprawling landscape of the 1860's borders farms in Scotland . |
| 10 | And the disingenuous becomes invidious when this is set against an attempt to locate blame for economic dislocation on its victims , cast inner city residents as ‘ a poor social mix ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p19 ) , and offer instead a radical recasting of multi-national capital as the means of saving the inner cities . |
| 11 | In my own experience of rack systems , the biggest problem , if you can call it a problem , is that each unit in the rack has its own level control , and the way each is set against the others can introduce different tonal and distortion elements to the sound . |
| 12 | ‘ Hopes And Fears ’ , an ocean of strings ( courtesy of The Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra ) , is set against the more pizzicato rhythms of ‘ Self ’ . |
| 13 | All this romantic angst is set against a backdrop of rural Irish life and IRA exploits . |
| 14 | The battle with his own fragile personality is set against his struggles with corrupt attorney , played by Jeff Goldblum . |
| 15 | My face is set against nothing ! |
| 16 | Deception is set against pretence , and the hypocrite , once exposed , is punished , exiled , or forgiven . |
| 17 | Romance , in his novels , is set against the inconvenient intervention of reality taking the form of chance . |
| 18 | When Bourdieu 's approach is set against the range of other approaches discussed in this chapter , certain highly divergent tendencies become evident . |
| 19 | Below This pleasant pool is set against a a background of water-worn limestone rockwork . |
| 20 | The greatest computer show on earth , COMDEX/Fall ‘ 92 , is set against the glittering background of Las Vegas , Nevada USA . |
| 21 | Thus , William Hoare 's ‘ Christopher Anstey with his daughter Mary ’ ( c1779 ) is set against John Henshall 's ‘ Faither an' Mither an' A ’ ( 1908 ) . |
| 22 | There is little agreement as to what the concept of integration implies , and the whole process is set against a backdrop of rapidly shifting opinion as to the legitimate scope of environmental policy itself . |
| 23 | Mr Dick Cheney , who now has the job , has always voted for rail-Mx , but that does not mean he is set against the Midgetman . |
| 24 | The 1.6 per cent increase in CO2 is set against an increase of only 1 per cent in gross domestic product over the year , indicating that the economy became more polluting per unit of wealth created . |
| 25 | NAS chief executive Laurie Caple said : ‘ This expenditure is set against money raised in the private sector from sponsorship and our various income generation activities . ’ |
| 26 | Their Artistic Director , Emelie Fitzgibbon , directs this specially-commissioned play which is set against the background of the Medieval Crusades . |
| 27 | Richly atmospheric , ‘ Bondagers ’ is set against the sprawling landscape of the 1860s borders farms . |