Example sentences of "[noun] when set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Boro saw a 16-point lead cut in half as Long Eaton , outclassed in the opening races , won four of the last seven heats and the margin of defeat would have been less had the impressive Dane Jan Staechmann not slid into the safety boards in the final race when set for his fourth win of the night . |
| 3 | That move was further encouraged by the increases in prescription charges last week , which were above average when set against inflation . |
| 4 | Hourly work effort in the latter part of the 1980s has increased by some 5% compared with the average between 1973–79 , and by more than 7% when set against the recessionary years of 1980/81 . |
| 5 | Our institutions and our conglomerates are modest in size when set alongside General Motors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If all the leading players were to head elsewhere it might actually make it easier for the WPGET to cater for those left behind with a series of small tournaments ; perhaps multi-sponsored events in the £30,000 bracket — a small sum when set against the £300,000 prize fund for this year 's Weetabix British Open , but a realistic figure at which to aim . |
| 8 | However , although any extra funds are to be welcomed , this is a very small sum when set against ten years of inaction and a massive increase in the scale of the problem . |
| 9 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |