Example sentences of "set against [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would mean 54 or 55 MPs out of 650 , to set against a proportionate entitlement of 76 or 77 . |
| 2 | Yet these are small gains to set against the many reverses the right has suffered since Mr de Klerk started to undo apartheid . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The next section traces the traditional arguments for and against health care markets to set against the peculiar hybrid that was introduced into the NHS . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Set against the neat rationality of these advantages must be the particular difficulties of planning in education . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | All Falkenhayn could set against the Fifth Army 's disappointment at Verdun was the news that the simultaneous U-boat campaign ( as ordained in his Memorandum to the Kaiser ) had already had outstanding success . |
| 13 | A single regional band could not be applied to Yorkshire , with council tax prices set against a regional band for , say , London and the south-east . |
| 14 | Yet , such criticism has to be set against a long-term investment programme — including direct job creation — worth four times the value of the federal payroll cuts . |
| 15 | The argument is easier to appreciate when set against a non-monetarized society . |
| 16 | Those wingborne came only in historic aircraft and the flying display was a vivid expression of the joys of classic aircraft set against a near-perfect sky and on a landing ground new to the late 20th Century . |
| 17 | A tiny grubby finger will be pointing at a poor pen-and-ink line drawing of a ‘ polecat with young ’ , set against a blue number seven . |
| 18 | This hotel is set against a pleasant backdrop of tree-covered slopes . |
| 19 | Giverny is an Art Nouveau design inspired by the flowers from Monet 's famous garden , using bright florals set against a deep background . |
| 20 | A strategical handicap of increased dependence on imported food and the incalculable cultural loss involved in commitment to an overwhelmingly industrial society were other results to be set against a higher standard of living for the majority . |
| 21 | Gabriela Sabatini had to battle through a tough second set against a determined Conchita Martinez on Sunday to win her second consecutive Family Circle Magazine Cup at Hilton Head , South Carolina . |
| 22 | The subject had been explored in The Trumpet-Major and stories such as ‘ The melancholy hussar of the German legion ’ but it now began to take shape as a verse drama of epic proportions in which the historical story of Napoleon 's rise and fall was set against a reflective commentary on man 's ‘ place in the universe ’ . |
| 23 | Baldwin 's reluctance had therefore to be set against a formidable opposition which had been allowed to solidify and organize itself in his absence . |
| 24 | It is generally argued , however , that the meaning " world " of is a post-Biblical development , and a mere possibility in the relationship of parallelistic lines ( " greater precision " ) can not be set against a linguistic certainty . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The refund may therefore be spread over the remaining expected service lives of current employees who are members and set against the regular cost for those years . |
| 28 | It is now a grand little farmhouse forming part of a courtyard together with its outbuildings and set against the prevailing wind from the northwest . |
| 29 | The door opened , and her presentiments were realised as someone moved stealthily across the carpeted floor , the narrow beam of a torch flitting over the low couch and the bureau set against the far wall . |
| 30 | It is a family history that becomes much more interesting when set against the wider background of the local history of an important industry . |