Example sentences of "[subord] set [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consultation may acquire a greater urgency and sense of purpose if set against the background of a recognised right of recovery at common law . |
| 2 | Though set at the time of the Napoleonic wars , its treatment of the Luddite riots is clearly an oblique comment on more topical events . ’ |
| 3 | Few thoughtful people do not now fear nuclear catastrophe within a period which is infinitesimal when set against the history of mankind . |
| 4 | When set against the scale of the problem , the contribution of the City Technology Colleges is of negligible significance . |
| 5 | This is rather cruel when set against the examples of his predecessors . |
| 6 | Subjects mattered , but only when set against the needs of the individual child within contemporary society . |
| 7 | The argument of achieving ‘ self-fulfilment ’ and of ‘ living as normal a life as possible ’ is seriously flawed when set against the context of an environment that is essentially oppressive and unadaptive and in which professional power establishes and perpetuates patterns of dependency . |
| 8 | An argument of this kind seems much more plausible when proposed by Berkeley ; it no longer seems like special pleading when set against the background of his God-centred , immaterialist view of the natural world . |
| 9 | They also argue that the waste of resources associated with the ex post coordination of supply and demand through markets is as nothing when set against the loss of production associated with the weak incentives of a planned economy and when compared to the inefficiency , bungling and corruption of every economic planning bureaucracy yet devised . |