Example sentences of "[pron] [is] set against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their Artistic Director , Emelie Fitzgibbon , directs this specially-commissioned play which is set against the background of the Medieval Crusades . |
| 2 | The sociologist , as I shall illustrate , is the despised , hairy , intellectual subversive , who is set against the ‘ clean and ordered British bobby ’ . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | Omit the baskets on one side for a buffet table if it is set against the wall |
| 5 | 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 . |