Example sentences of "to set against [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foliage will be as important as flower , and we 'll need to think about texture — rough leaves versus smooth ; tall spiky plants to set against rounded shapes and so on . |
| 2 | Despite the tour results , with only two wins and two draws to set against four defeats , Sole cited the tour as a success in bringing on newcomers . |
| 3 | Most of her flowers therefore tend to be in blue , which she would really prefer to combine merely with white to set against all the greens of the garden — but soft shades of mauve and pink also creep in . |
| 4 | To set against that , however , Ford entered office at a moment when confidence in political leaders had collapsed catastrophically and when the anti-authority tradition embedded in the American political culture had resurfaced . |
| 5 | Its use as a means of defining order or to set against those outside creates a subcultural style , which is reinforced continually . |
| 6 | Mergers between potential rivals , on the other hand , will almost certainly have adverse effects on market performance to set against any gains accruing from co-operative R&D . |
| 7 | To set against this the prosaic virtues of humility and obedience , and to make them seem not merely right but also interesting , is — when the writer is a fallen creature writing for other fallen creatures — an impossible task . |
| 8 | It is then important to set against this the qualitative assessments and for management to discuss the relative importance of each type of information before the final decisions are made . |
| 9 | To set against this trend , however , there was much evidence to support the view that the public continued to look to government for assistance . |