Example sentences of "set [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet these are small gains to set against the many reverses the right has suffered since Mr de Klerk started to undo apartheid . |
| 2 | Critics tried to rescue older notions of ‘ community ’ or ‘ citizenship ’ to set against the competitive values of the Thatcher government — only to discover that the latter was highly adept in taking over these themes itself in such areas as housing , education , and ‘ neighbourhood watch ’ crime-prevention schemes , partly as a weapon against left-wing local authorities . |
| 3 | However in applications where the load is likely to fluctuate the timings must he set for the worst conditions ( i.e. largest load ) and the control scheme is then non-optimal for all other loads . |
| 4 | Set amid the creaking staircases and small bedrooms of small English guesthouses , ‘ The Tourist Trap ’ peeps through the keyhole of English respectability into a dimly-lit back room of voyeurism , deception and lies . |
| 5 | Set in the steamy swamps of Bayou La Teche ‘ Scorchers ’ is part comedy , part deadly serious drama , in the story of two curious relationships — one in which a newly married husband ca n't get his young wife into bed and in the other a preacher 's daughter ca n't get her husband out of someone else 's ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Set in the beautiful grounds behind the Hotel Rely , the Rely apartments accommodate up to 5 pers . |
| 8 | Set amidst the olive groves , orange trees and a sea of terracotta roofs , it nestles on a plateau high above the sea . |
| 9 | By the end of the nineties , we could be set for the first Oscars awarded to synthetic actors . |
| 10 | Many young Germans , with that strong national instinct for cameraderie , regarded their periods of recuperation at rest camps , set amid the glorious woods and hills of Alsace and spent in the company of those with whom they had shared the common experience of Verdun , as among the more idyllic moments of the war . |
| 11 | the small characters set below the normal letters or figures . |
| 12 | Crow Wood is set below the north-western flanks of the Cleveland Hills , with a clear view to Roseberry Topping , a strangely menacing peak rising straight out of meadows and woodland . |
| 13 | For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes . |
| 14 | The TGAT Report ( DES 1987 ) on testing within the National Curriculum has suggested that parents be helped by having schools ' published test results set against the socio-economic circumstances of the pupils . |
| 15 | Hourly work effort in the latter part of the 1980s has increased by some 5% compared with the average between 1973–79 , and by more than 7% when set against the recessionary years of 1980/81 . |
| 16 | But on second thoughts , that comparison also seemed obscenely trite when set against the greater contrasts in values affecting millions of fellow-inhabitants of this planet . |
| 17 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 18 | Charming emerald islands set amongst the lapping waves . ’ |
| 19 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 20 | It was a handsome face , a model 's face , he thought , with its high cheekbones , long , slightly concave nose , wide , full lips and dark , angry eyes deeply set under the strong brows . |
| 21 | the small characters set above the normal letters or figures . |
| 22 | Numerous poles were set into the mossy cobbles of the yard , connected at a height of six feet or so by thin cords . |
| 23 | He indicated the twelve carved thrones at the edges of the clearing , set into the immense Trees . |
| 24 | This shows accuracy , however , not prejudice : most of his work is set before the English navvies and engineers descended on Normandy . |
| 25 | The Papal State lay wedged like a nut within a giant imperial nutcracker — a small insecure state set within the imperial towns and communes to the north and the tightly-governed Regno to the south . |
| 26 | The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves . |
| 27 | It is a familiar theme in Latin American fiction , and something of the flavour of this part of Panama can be gleaned from Garcia Marquez 's One Hundred Years Of Solitude , set in the forgotten swamps of Colombia ( of which Panama once formed part ) . |
| 28 | Written in verse , the play was set in the Middle Ages and told of a soldier back from seven years in the wars who wanted to die and a beautiful witch who wanted to live . |
| 29 | The organization of competitive pupil participation thus avoids excesses of boredom and inattention especially where false questioning trails can be set in the early stages and the ‘ answer ’ or ‘ point ’ of the lesson delayed so that pupils have to work hard to discover it . |
| 30 | The new tone was set in the early hours of Friday when a broken-hearted bearded man of radical inclinations tore down his Labour posters and replaced them with a single bleak statement which , curiously , he must have had printed before the election . |