Example sentences of "set [adv prt] against [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dew v. Parsons ( 1819 ) 2 B. & Ald. 562 an attorney was held entitled to set off against a claim by a sheriff the excess amount which he had paid to the sheriff for the issue of warrants over what the sheriff was legally entitled to charge . |
| 2 | The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain . |
| 3 | For example , this is a passage of interpretive description of a Van Gogh self-portrait : ‘ … his emaciated , luminous head with its burning eyes set off against a whirlpool of darkness . |
| 4 | The balance on a client account may not be set off against a sum owed to LCH on any other kind of account . |
| 5 | Moreover , a similar or larger proportion claim either to enjoy the frequent change of tasks and environment , the flexibility of " temping " and of being able to take spells off between assignments , or to have commitments which make continuous working impossible ; even if , as one recent survey ( Manpower , 1986 ) showed , this was Sometimes to be set off against a feeling of employment insecurity . |
| 6 | In the September 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 111 ) , we reported a case before the Court of Appeal in which the Court was asked to make a declaration as to whether MS Fashions Ltd and MS Fashions ( Wholesale ) Ltd could be required to pay to Touche Ross , the liquidator of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the whole of a combined overdraft of £600,000 , or whether a deposit with BCCI by Mr Sarwar of £300,000 , which had been used as a security for the overdrafts , could be set off against the sum of £600,000 under Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 . |
| 7 | Where there have been mutual credits , debts or other mutual dealings between a company before it goes into liquidation and any other creditors , Rule 4.90 provides that account should be taken of what is due from each party , and the sums due from one shall be set off against the sums due from the other . |
| 8 | There , it is provided that there shall be set off against the tax charged on any amount treated by virtue of the section as income of the settlor for any year an amount equal to : 1 . |
| 9 | Without any application to the court , the mortgagee , if his mortgage is a conveyance of the legal estate or ownership , may take possession ; but this course is hazardous , since he may be called upon in a redemption action to account strictly not only for profits actually received by him , but also for those which he might but for his default have received , and all such profits , so far as they exceed the interest due for the time being , must be set off against the principal . |
| 10 | Sure enough , a second ray-gun and clock , identical to the first , were set up against the back wall . |
| 11 | He described how the ladder was to be set up against the wire , how people were to clamber over and how they were to swing themselves clear through the gap at the end . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the new kind of assignment resembles the equitable assignment in being subject to equities , i.e. to claims or defences which the debtor or other person might have set up against the assignor . |
| 13 | Tiled surrounds built in the 1930s are set back against the brickwork , and the plaster made good around them . |
| 14 | The oval dining table stood before the rear window , but it held in the middle a model of the house on a low plinth as if it were a museum exhibit , and the eight high-backed dining chairs had been set back against the walls . |