Example sentences of "[is] set against the " 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 | Scheffau is set against the backdrop of the stunning Ellmauer Halt , the highest peak in the Wilder Kaiser mountain range . |
| 7 | Richly atmospheric , ‘ Bondagers ’ is set against the sprawling landscape of the 1860's borders farms in Scotland . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Hopes And Fears ’ , an ocean of strings ( courtesy of The Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra ) , is set against the more pizzicato rhythms of ‘ Self ’ . |
| 10 | Romance , in his novels , is set against the inconvenient intervention of reality taking the form of chance . |
| 11 | When Bourdieu 's approach is set against the range of other approaches discussed in this chapter , certain highly divergent tendencies become evident . |
| 12 | The greatest computer show on earth , COMDEX/Fall ‘ 92 , is set against the glittering background of Las Vegas , Nevada USA . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Their Artistic Director , Emelie Fitzgibbon , directs this specially-commissioned play which is set against the background of the Medieval Crusades . |
| 15 | Richly atmospheric , ‘ Bondagers ’ is set against the sprawling landscape of the 1860s borders farms . |