Example sentences of "set against [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The body is undoubtedly ply , which has a sort of push-me-pull-you reputation in this department — the benefits of low cost being set against the disadvantages of poorer tone-producing capabilities . |
| 3 | In considering the issue of legitimacy in relation to our constitutional arrangements and the exercise of governmental power , what has to be done is to examine a range of practices , decisions , actions ( and non-practices , -decisions and -actions ) statements and policies which between them can amount to a portrait of power , so that we can form a judgment or an assessment of that power set against the principles of limited government outlined and discussed so far . |
| 4 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 5 | TEN BOB IN WINTER : A comedy of manners set against the lives of West Indian immigrant workers in London in the sixties . |
| 6 | At best , his figures are ornaments set against the splendours of Nature . |
| 7 | The number of such cartoons is so small that , set against the insults to women broadcast by every newsagent and television channel , only a loony masculist would object to them . |
| 8 | This is rather cruel when set against the examples of his predecessors . |
| 9 | Bunks were set against the walls , kerosene heaters gave instant heat , while electric kettles enabled tea or coffee to be made . |
| 10 | Subjects mattered , but only when set against the needs of the individual child within contemporary society . |
| 11 | It was clearly not an easy one ; and the small group who made the bond designed to shore up its decision pales into insignificance when set against the numbers involved in the second bond . |
| 12 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 13 | To grasp their real magnitude these figures need to be set against the incomes of other social groups . |
| 14 | These benefits must be set against the costs , measured in both financial and medical terms , so that a judgment can be made on whether the benefits justify the cost . |
| 15 | The government allocated £6.5 million to ease the transition but this was totally inadequate when set against the costs associated with reorganisation . |
| 16 | And to look at the colourful display of begonias , geraniums and fuchsias set against the trees and shrubs , the unusual rockery plants , the miniature acres in their raised beds , linked pools and waterfall , emptying into a small bog garden , and the greenhouse brimming with plants raised from cuttings and seed , you would think the Doughtys spend hours every day keeping it all in trim . |