Example sentences of "set [pron] against the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before , however , I examine in more detail my own personal views on this subject I would like to set them against the background of alternative approaches . |
| 2 | His purpose in writing was to recount the human stories of all his fellow parishioners and their ancestors and to set them against the physical environment and administrative framework of the place where they lived . |
| 3 | And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other . |
| 4 | Only passing accounts of his life and work have appeared in the literature , and while brief references have been made to Nicholson 's excellence as a chemist , these have not done justice to his achievements , or set them against the London localities where they occurred . |
| 5 | The realisation that we teach children more effectively if we understand them fully and set them against the social and cultural conditions in which they live and grow , places an expectation upon the teacher which can not be prescribed by contract . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've got ter see 'ow we 're doin' , 'ow much we 're spendin' , an' set it against the takin 's . ’ |
| 7 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 8 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 9 | In fact it was rather modernism , as its name implies ( from latin modo , just now , or hodie , today ) , that tried to awake from the nightmare of history , self-consciously setting itself against the past , and rejecting forms of historical understanding . |
| 10 | Plumping up the pillows , she set them against the padded headrest and left , closing the door behind her . |
| 11 | Each story contains a different claim by Jesus that set himself against the religious leaders and pointed to the new way of Christianity : |