Example sentences of "set against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the point where a number of difficult areas converge : society 's ambivalence about sexuality and people with learning difficulties ; a tradition of segregation ; a lingering concern about eugenics ; a shameful history of ( enforced ) sterilisation ; a proper concern about vulnerable children ; and their right to due protection from neglect and abuse — set against an increasing recognition that people with learning difficulties should enjoy the same rights to an ordinary life in our society as anyone else , including the rights to be parents . |
| 2 | Set against the sweeping backdrop of adventure on the high seas , TREASURE ISLAND charts a boy 's search for treasure in a time of danger and piracy . |
| 3 | Set against the neat rationality of these advantages must be the particular difficulties of planning in education . |
| 4 | Set against the British Rail 's as yet unapproved plans for a single specially constructed high speed line between the Channel Tunnel and London look rather modest although work is underway to electrify the three main trunk routes between London and Glasgow to take trains at up to 225kph . |
| 5 | Set against the wide open spaces of the Canadian Arctic , an Inuit ( Eskimo ) woman saves the life of a shipwrecked sailor , and returns with him to Britain . |
| 6 | Set against the resentment which their greed aroused , the administrative reforms which the younger Despenser together with the Chancellor Robert Baldock and the Treasurer Walter Stapleton implemented between 1322 and 1326 were of little political significance , despite the fact that some of their measures , such as the reduction in the financial independence of the Wardrobe , had formed part of the Ordainers ' programme in 1310 . |
| 7 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 8 | Set against the high side-window of the open car and the evening sky , the effect was extraordinary , the portrait , Flavia thought she saw , of Isabella d'Este . |
| 9 | Set against the verdant tracery of mature trees , and the glinting spread of a glassy lake in the background , the house took on a warm roseate glow in the fading light of the evening sun . |
| 10 | Set against the enduring strength of the city 's architecture and way of life , the film reflects an attitude that you would recognise even now in Marchmont and the New Town . |
| 11 | Set against the background of the 300-year old home of the Duke of Buccleuch , the event attracted top competitors from all over the world including British National champion , George Bowman of Penrith . |
| 12 | Stephen and Bloom are brought together in the final stages of Ulysses so that at last the space of desperation can be closed , the vertical pull of Stephen 's iron ambition , set against the downward sucking force of Blooms ordinariness . |