Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is rather cruel when set against the examples of his predecessors . |
| 2 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |
| 3 | But on second thoughts , that comparison also seemed obscenely trite when set against the greater contrasts in values affecting millions of fellow-inhabitants of this planet . |
| 4 | Jenks argued in the 1950's that these latter policies became less relevant when set against the need to promote the systematic development of international law through the conclusion of multipartite law-making treaties . |
| 5 | Robert Cecil 's total benefits from office in terms of influence and contacts probably brought him more than Sadler 's £2,600 ; but , once again , the increase was not huge when set beside the rise in prices . |
| 6 | It is a family history that becomes much more interesting when set against the wider background of the local history of an important industry . |
| 7 | The government allocated £6.5 million to ease the transition but this was totally inadequate when set against the costs associated with reorganisation . |
| 8 | The laws are fairly insignificant when set beside the economic problem , and the near certainty that , even if all its present plans work out , the Government will be compelled to report a worse economic record in its third Parliament than its second . |
| 9 | Murdock had found these ideas rather attractive and set to work to build a locomotive model . |
| 10 | He was a devoted and loyal colleague who was too old and set in his ways when he became Professor to introduce major developments , but signs of change were seen , coming to fruition in his successor 's reign . |
| 11 | The argument of achieving ‘ self-fulfilment ’ and of ‘ living as normal a life as possible ’ is seriously flawed when set against the context of an environment that is essentially oppressive and unadaptive and in which professional power establishes and perpetuates patterns of dependency . |
| 12 | Yet Nature , on to whom we pitch responsibility for all we can not understand , is n't very good when set to automatic . |