Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subjects mattered , but only when set against the needs of the individual child within contemporary society . |
| 2 | Analyzed within Becker 's framework , insider dealing and , indeed , other conflict abuse , yields sizeable profits , especially when set against the low risk of detection . |
| 3 | Glass shelves are often particularly effective , especially when set in a mirrored alcove , and lit from above or below , or both . |
| 4 | In fact , it is basically seen as the professionals banding together to protect their own — especially so when set against the various Royal College of Surgeons ' statements that testing of patients after operative accidents is reasonable whether or not the patient agrees . |
| 5 | The Teutonic Knights had indeed penetrated eastwards , but their influence , when it was not military , had been to spread a lifestyle and set of material , cultural and linguistic bearings rather than set in motion the bodily removal and resettlement of vast numbers of Germans . |
| 6 | Among the cool colours and short sleeves look out for an imaginative crochet trim — daisies , worked separately and set into open spaces left in the knitting . |
| 7 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 8 | James Stephen saw abolition in 1807 as having world-wide consequences as well as setting in train ‘ by slow but inevitable steps ’ the extinction of British colonial slavery . |
| 9 | The magistrate decided whether to try a case summarily or to set in motion the process of committing it to a superior court . |
| 10 | It ionizes , causes the current to be completed and then that sets off the alarm . |
| 11 | Head large , with large eyes facing forwards and set in a flattened facial disc , whose feathers usually conceal the short hooked bill . |
| 12 | While he has his backers the nature of Mr Birt 's shake-up at the corporation , introducing distinctly Thatcherite market-forces into an organisation at least as set in its ways as the civil service , but many times more internally political , means there are many ready to use the episode to raise other questions against him . |
| 13 | Turn it back again and set on three bricks . |