Example sentences of "be set against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And obviously some compromise must be struck as , for example , in the case of transport , where undoubtedly the need and desire for mobility and the distances involved in travel have to be set against the knowledge that roads pollute and fast cars kill . |
| 2 | Political analysts noted that Bush 's problems were compounded by the absence of non-economic issues to be set against the recession . |
| 3 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 4 | Rutherford said , ‘ Tell me , then , who in this age of miracles can be set against the master designer of Stonehenge ? ’ |
| 5 | The relief can be set against the investor 's other income in that tax year or carried back three years or carried forward . |
| 6 | The benefits in earnings terms from devaluation have to be set against the increase in these liabilities . |
| 7 | The tax is not in fact ACT , so can not be set against the company 's mainstream corporation tax liability . |
| 8 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 9 | To grasp their real magnitude these figures need to be set against the incomes of other social groups . |
| 10 | These benefits must be set against the costs , measured in both financial and medical terms , so that a judgment can be made on whether the benefits justify the cost . |
| 11 | Similarly tomorrow 's hopes for the child must be set against the understanding shown today . |
| 12 | A strong balance sheet and attractive business mix must be set against the absence of any recovery in its major markets . |
| 13 | There is , however , no evidence that Ali Kuscu succeeded Molla Husrev , and Uzuncarsili 's statement that he had been transferred to the Ayasofya medrese ( which is not mentioned in the needs to be set against the report that Ali Kuscu accompanied Mehmed II on the campaign against Uzun Hasan ( began Shawwal 877/March 1473 ) and was appointed to the Ayasofya medrese only on their return ( mid-878/autumn 1473 ) . |
| 14 | If ACT can not be set against the balance on deferred taxation account and recovery is not assured without reasonable doubt the balance must be written off . |
| 15 | Moreover all of them have to be set against the background of the changing pressures on industry deriving from wider changes in the national and international economy . |
| 16 | The role of day care needs to be set against the background of other services . |
| 17 | You will need to warn management of the potentially adverse effects of refusing to appear or to comment and this will need to be set against the fact that having a valid argument does not always guarantee a sympathetic audience . |
| 18 | But Mr Bull said the good news must be set against the closure of seven groups and the fact that the number of new members fell slightly short of the 1991 targeted figure due to the onset of the recession . |
| 19 | Illicit drug use also has to be set against the context of prescribed drug-taking . |