Example sentences of "but set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bluish second-hand car lots ; sagging bluish fences ; bluish Unitarian churches ; small bluish factories , some Odeon-fronted , some glassed and rectilinear , but set at odd bluish angles to their surroundings . |
| 2 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 3 | But set against this conditioned , non-autonomous female self are various images of a female self that would be authentic , that would transcend or shatter this conditioning . |
| 4 | He has this advantage , but set against it he has to accept that management charges and corporation tax will be charged against trust income . |
| 5 | The swarming lampreys consume not only dead or sickly fish but set upon otherwise healthy ones . |
| 6 | This may not seem much in terms of Hong Kong 's caseload of more tha 40,000 Vietnamese , but set in a historical context it is an achievement . |
| 7 | The figures are both shocking and tragic , but set in the context of 19th-century political convulsions in France they are relatively mild . |
| 8 | The Corn is Green is a kind of ‘ thirties Educating Rita , but set in the Welsh coalfields and without the frivolous distractions of student life . |
| 9 | The difference between Regency attitudes and those of the mid-Victorians to the houses of the poor can be focused in George Eliot 's Middlemarch , first published in 1871–2 , but set in 1829–32 . |