Example sentences of "[prep] be set against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And obviously some compromise must be struck as , for example , in the case of transport , where undoubtedly the need and desire for mobility and the distances involved in travel have to be set against the knowledge that roads pollute and fast cars kill . |
| 2 | The benefits in earnings terms from devaluation have to be set against the increase in these liabilities . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To grasp their real magnitude these figures need to be set against the incomes of other social groups . |
| 5 | You will need to warn management of the potentially adverse effects of refusing to appear or to comment and this will need to be set against the fact that having a valid argument does not always guarantee a sympathetic audience . |
| 6 | Moreover all of them have to be set against the background of the changing pressures on industry deriving from wider changes in the national and international economy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The role of day care needs to be set against the background of other services . |
| 9 | Illicit drug use also has to be set against the context of prescribed drug-taking . |
| 10 | These casualty totals have to be set against the continuing growth in traffic which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 11 | There is , however , no evidence that Ali Kuscu succeeded Molla Husrev , and Uzuncarsili 's statement that he had been transferred to the Ayasofya medrese ( which is not mentioned in the needs to be set against the report that Ali Kuscu accompanied Mehmed II on the campaign against Uzun Hasan ( began Shawwal 877/March 1473 ) and was appointed to the Ayasofya medrese only on their return ( mid-878/autumn 1473 ) . |
| 12 | Political analysts noted that Bush 's problems were compounded by the absence of non-economic issues to be set against the recession . |
| 13 | For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes . |
| 14 | To be set against the longitudinal study is the greater cost although , of course , the basic need to define population and sample is common to both . |