Example sentences of "comes against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed rule change comes against a background of concern about the speed of the game , which was the subject of an ATP Players Forum held during the Lipton International Players Championships in Key Biscayne in March ( see Parsons ' Perspective ) . |
| 2 | The decision comes against a background of increased Chinese public utterances on environmental questions . |
| 3 | Mr Heseltine 's decision to revoke the permission comes against a background of mounting criticism within European circles of Britain 's failure to protect adequately its fragile habitats . |
| 4 | The ban , first proposed last year , comes against a background of mounting criticism by conservation groups of the springtime slaughter of migratory birds throughout southern Europe , focused around the International Council for Bird Preservation 's Migratory Birds Campaign . |
| 5 | The decline comes against a background of global concern over reduced populations of amphibians worldwide [ see ED No. 49/50 ] . |
| 6 | The decision comes against a background of growing concern , in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world , that poorer countries are being used as a dumping ground by companies keen to avoid the more stringent regulations governing toxic waste in force in industrialized states . |
| 7 | Athens ' supply crisis comes against a background of growing concern over diminishing water supplies for the intensely-cultivated Thessaly Plain , where farmers growing EC-supported water-hungry crops are rapidly depleting available resources . |
| 8 | The rise comes against a national picture of rising repossessions , falling profits and poor asset growth at other regional building societies . |
| 9 | This debate is unusual because it comes against the background of the autumn statement , which is often debated separately , and the meeting in Maastricht at the end of the year , which may decide on economic and monetary union . |