Example sentences of "set against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set against the sweeping backdrop of adventure on the high seas , TREASURE ISLAND charts a boy 's search for treasure in a time of danger and piracy . |
| 2 | Set against these points is the maintenance problem ; softwood doors need regular decoration to keep rot at bay , and even hardwoods require regular treatment with preservative and stain to keep them in good condition . |
| 3 | Set against it is the Marxist-structuralist position , that finds the concepts of art and literature inherently oppressive . |
| 4 | Set against this , however , is that over the same period the number of compounds screened for every new product generated has increased from 2 × 10 3 to 2 × 10 4 , which inevitably increases development costs . |
| 5 | Set against the neat rationality of these advantages must be the particular difficulties of planning in education . |
| 6 | Set against wage reductions and the receipt of several hundred pounds from the League relief fund was an average gate yield of less than £200 . |
| 7 | Set against T&L 's current pre-tax earnings of £220 million it is clearly not going to transform the company 's profits profile . |
| 8 | Set against the British Rail 's as yet unapproved plans for a single specially constructed high speed line between the Channel Tunnel and London look rather modest although work is underway to electrify the three main trunk routes between London and Glasgow to take trains at up to 225kph . |
| 9 | Set against these points is the familiar maintenance problem : softwood windows need regular decoration to keep rot at bay , and even hardwoods require regular treatment with preservative and stain to keep then in good condition . |
| 10 | Set against the wide open spaces of the Canadian Arctic , an Inuit ( Eskimo ) woman saves the life of a shipwrecked sailor , and returns with him to Britain . |
| 11 | Set against these deficiencies is the fact that psychiatry — if only by dint of the accumulated experience that comes from having to observe the more unusual among us — has developed a ‘ language of symptoms ’ that can prove useful in throwing the features of that deviance into high relief . |
| 12 | This is the point where a number of difficult areas converge : society 's ambivalence about sexuality and people with learning difficulties ; a tradition of segregation ; a lingering concern about eugenics ; a shameful history of ( enforced ) sterilisation ; a proper concern about vulnerable children ; and their right to due protection from neglect and abuse — set against an increasing recognition that people with learning difficulties should enjoy the same rights to an ordinary life in our society as anyone else , including the rights to be parents . |
| 13 | Set against the resentment which their greed aroused , the administrative reforms which the younger Despenser together with the Chancellor Robert Baldock and the Treasurer Walter Stapleton implemented between 1322 and 1326 were of little political significance , despite the fact that some of their measures , such as the reduction in the financial independence of the Wardrobe , had formed part of the Ordainers ' programme in 1310 . |
| 14 | Set against this picture and parallel to the theory that accompanies and supports it is the idea of the possibility of order as a creation of social instruments ordained for that very task , namely teachers , police , social workers , and perhaps , in the last resort , parents . |
| 15 | But set against this conditioned , non-autonomous female self are various images of a female self that would be authentic , that would transcend or shatter this conditioning . |
| 16 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 17 | Set against the high side-window of the open car and the evening sky , the effect was extraordinary , the portrait , Flavia thought she saw , of Isabella d'Este . |
| 18 | Set against my wits and guile , |
| 19 | Set against this rather simplistic view of the neutrality and responsiveness of the state to the wishes of electors are pluralist writers who argue that there is certainly a necked for greater preparedness. hut that the military and the giant corporations in America have far more influence on the political system than they should and that they are a threat to liberal democracy . |
| 20 | Set against these developments , soccer hooliganism may be interpreted as ‘ attempts by certain sections of the class to assert some inarticulate , but keenly experienced sense of control over the game that was theirs ’ ( Taylor , 1971a:163 ) . |
| 21 | Set against this is the felt reality ; the constraining influences of the number of individuals a person has to interact with at any one moment and the problem of time . |
| 22 | Set against these were what he took to be the essential strengths and cultural possibilities of the German spirit , which in recent generations — and most clearly in the age of Goethe — had been partially realized and whose full realization was an ever-present dream . |
| 23 | Set against these factors was a good range of books from publishers — quality titles at all levels offering entertainment and value for money — efficiently supplied by wholesalers . |
| 24 | He has this advantage , but set against it he has to accept that management charges and corporation tax will be charged against trust income . |
| 25 | Set against these anti-Marketeers have been the Labour Euro-enthusiasts . |
| 26 | Set against Labour 's attraction to the recent elevation of socialism in the EEC is their dislike of the threat to employment posed by the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 27 | Set against the verdant tracery of mature trees , and the glinting spread of a glassy lake in the background , the house took on a warm roseate glow in the fading light of the evening sun . |
| 28 | Set against the enduring strength of the city 's architecture and way of life , the film reflects an attitude that you would recognise even now in Marchmont and the New Town . |
| 29 | Set against the background of the 300-year old home of the Duke of Buccleuch , the event attracted top competitors from all over the world including British National champion , George Bowman of Penrith . |
| 30 | Set against these differences however , is the presence , in both , of crowstep pattern and swastika-peltae ( in the central panel at Chedworth ) , as well as an arrangement of concentric . |