Example sentences of "[be] set against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument that ‘ conversion ’ to tuberculin positivity by BCG may hinder diagnosis of tuberculosis should surely be set against the laborious surveillance by periodic tuberculin testing and treatment with ( not entirely innocuous ) drugs if positivity should develop . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What follows is a description of a typical general practice , but this description should be set against the increasing stratification of legal practice in England and Wales . |
| 4 | Although the disc 's sun is but an orbiting moonlet , its prominences hardly bigger than croquet hoops , this slight drawback must be set against the tremendous sight of Great A'Tuin the Turtle , upon Whose-ancient and meteor-riddled shell the disc ultimately rests . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Such shortcomings must be set against the big truth — that today 's CAP is a supremely insidious way of extracting $85 billion from consumers within the EC , and queering the pitch for farmers everywhere else . |
| 7 | In return the USA reportedly dropped its demand for a further $700 million from Japan , representing sums paid to the United Kingdom , France , and the Arab states which Japan had insisted should be set against the original pledge of $9,000 million . |
| 8 | These casualty totals have to be set against the continuing growth in traffic which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 9 | You will find that each sheet then has a small black mark in the centre of the long side , and this can be set against the centralising mark that your punch must have ( if it does n't , do n't buy it ) . |
| 10 | The Soviet Union 's clear lead over the USA in manned , especially long duration , space flights on the Mir space station , the ninth of which began on May 18 , 1991 , was increasingly being set against the scientific value of cheaper unmanned space probes , even though these were also subject to financial cutbacks . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | The greatest computer show on earth , COMDEX/Fall ‘ 92 , is set against the glittering background of Las Vegas , Nevada USA . |
| 13 | Romance , in his novels , is set against the inconvenient intervention of reality taking the form of chance . |
| 14 | Richly atmospheric , ‘ Bondagers ’ is set against the sprawling landscape of the 1860's borders farms in Scotland . |
| 15 | Richly atmospheric , ‘ Bondagers ’ is set against the sprawling landscape of the 1860s borders farms . |
| 16 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 17 | In the later eighteenth century the concept of nobility was subject to an attack that reached surprising verbal violence : the useful bourgeois was set against the useless noble as the pattern of social virtue . |