Example sentences of "[subord] set [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consultation may acquire a greater urgency and sense of purpose if set against the background of a recognised right of recovery at common law . |
| 2 | The decision came against a background of growing public anxiety over the capital 's air pollution levels , which had reached nearly four times the recommended limits as set by the World Health Organization . |
| 3 | The decision came against a background of growing public anxiety over the capital 's air pollution levels , which have reached nearly four times the recommended limits as set by the World Health Organization . |
| 4 | Work systematically around the paving until the blocks are flush with the desired level as set by the edging blocks . |
| 5 | Though set at the time of the Napoleonic wars , its treatment of the Luddite riots is clearly an oblique comment on more topical events . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When set to the rhythm first of ska music ( which took the world by storm in the 1950s ) and then to reggae , the resulting musical brew was explosive . |
| 8 | Few thoughtful people do not now fear nuclear catastrophe within a period which is infinitesimal when set against the history of mankind . |
| 9 | When set against the scale of the problem , the contribution of the City Technology Colleges is of negligible significance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | An argument of this kind seems much more plausible when proposed by Berkeley ; it no longer seems like special pleading when set against the background of his God-centred , immaterialist view of the natural world . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They also argue that the waste of resources associated with the ex post coordination of supply and demand through markets is as nothing when set against the loss of production associated with the weak incentives of a planned economy and when compared to the inefficiency , bungling and corruption of every economic planning bureaucracy yet devised . |