Example sentences of "set [prep] the context " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument of achieving ‘ self-fulfilment ’ and of ‘ living as normal a life as possible ’ is seriously flawed when set against the context of an environment that is essentially oppressive and unadaptive and in which professional power establishes and perpetuates patterns of dependency . |
| 2 | Illicit drug use also has to be set against the context of prescribed drug-taking . |
| 3 | If governors are to be helped to perform their duties under the 1981 Act effectively , these duties must be set into the context of the responsibilities imposed by the 1986 and 1988 Acts . |
| 4 | The rejection by the Buid of any form of legitimate hierarchy or aggression within their society must be set within the context of a larger cosmological system in which humans are under constant attack by both predatory spirits and lowlanders , and in which they must commit parallel acts of aggression against their animals . |
| 5 | Improving Secondary Schools ( hereafter ISS ) is set within the context of the ILEA 's determination to tackle the issue of under-achievement by pupils , within a framework of a commitment to enhancing equality of opportunity in relation to sex , race and class : particular attention was to be paid by the committee of enquiry to low achievers and disaffected pupils . |
| 6 | Study of a place 's people will be set within the context of both their physical and their built environment ( with the latter encompassing the entire human-created landscape and not just the pattern of buildings and settlements ) — with neither being determinate of the others , of course , but with all three inter-linked . |
| 7 | In fact , if the problem is set within the context of an evidently powerful late-tenth-century Danish monarchy , it is difficult to believe that Harald Bluetooth or his son could not have introduced a naval system had they wished , and when the concern about the country 's southern land defences is remembered , along with the importance that must also have been attached to protection from sea-borne attack , it might seem more likely than not that they did wish . |
| 8 | But then take a hospital series like Casualty which has been quite explicitly set in the context of a decaying health service . |
| 9 | Performance in education is complex , controversial and should properly be set in the context of long time scales . |
| 10 | Set in the context of Second Vespers for the Feast of St Barbara |
| 11 | It may be better understood if it is set in the context of Hindu teaching concerning the different orders or āśramas of society corresponding to the different stages of life . |
| 12 | The particular tribe among whom he was working couched their teaching in story form , and the main story-line was always the same — the events were set in the context of a journey , for they were a nomadic people . |
| 13 | The bid for Rowntree was set in the context of a shift in consumer preference away from ‘ slab ’ bars of chocolate towards ‘ countline ’ products ( individually wrapped chocolate snacks ) — an area in which Rowntree had great strength . |
| 14 | This debate , however , has to be set in the context of our world , of nation-states and transnational corporations , technologies of power and social movements . |
| 15 | All this is set in the context of conflict . |
| 16 | However , all of this has to be set in the context that whilst still at school children were dependent for their own basic economic support upon the parental generation . |
| 17 | there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) . |
| 18 | It should not lead to a restricted curriculum , and its use was set in the context of a range of other methods which ‘ use pupils ’ own talk , interests and writing as the starting point for further work' ( NCC 1989a : 33 ) . |
| 19 | Economists often think about policies towards R&D and innovation in terms of conflicts between static and dynamic efficiency ( for a critical overview of this debate set in the context of antitrust , see Baumol and Ordover , 1988 and 1992 ) . |
| 20 | The results will be set in the context of a study of the history of planning theory and urban policy making . |
| 21 | This is set in the context of the changing international structure of the industries . |
| 22 | Language teaching will thus be set in the context of other influences . |
| 23 | Rather the programme of study for Key Stage 3 while being set in its subject context of a 5 – 16 continuum , should also be set in the context of the whole school curriculum framework . |
| 24 | It is true that Robert Harley ( now Earl of Oxford ) and Viscount Bolingbroke seemed to flirt with Jacobitism in the period 1710 – 14 , but they were never sincere , and their actions must be set in the context of their attempts to rally disparate groups of Tories behind them in their own personal struggle for dominance within the party . |