Example sentences of "set against the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do n't you think , he 'd like to score a happy marriage to set against the other one ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Stephen and Bloom are brought together in the final stages of Ulysses so that at last the space of desperation can be closed , the vertical pull of Stephen 's iron ambition , set against the downward sucking force of Blooms ordinariness . |
| 6 | Set against the neat rationality of these advantages must be the particular difficulties of planning in education . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But maybe this sounds glib when set against the specific and extreme misery of imprisonment . |
| 15 | With its sights set against the established social and political order , it was further estranged from those newspapers which were able to participate in the reporting and gossip of metropolitan politics . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Hourly work effort in the latter part of the 1980s has increased by some 5% compared with the average between 1973–79 , and by more than 7% when set against the recessionary years of 1980/81 . |
| 19 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 20 | In fact , it is basically seen as the professionals banding together to protect their own — especially so when set against the various Royal College of Surgeons ' statements that testing of patients after operative accidents is reasonable whether or not the patient agrees . |
| 21 | Analyzed within Becker 's framework , insider dealing and , indeed , other conflict abuse , yields sizeable profits , especially when set against the low risk of detection . |
| 22 | Some , however , have found the so-called ‘ Beaux-Arts ’ style , for all its academic rigour and perfection of proportion to be too correct , bloodless , and buttoned-up when set against the free-flowing eclecticism of some other contemporary stations . |
| 23 | Yet 18 months after its signing , and set against the political and economic backdrop of today 's Europe , the dangers of persisting with it are smaller than the dangers of scuttling it . |
| 24 | Although the disc 's sun is but an orbiting moonlet , its prominences hardly bigger than croquet hoops , this slight drawback must be set against the tremendous sight of Great A'Tuin the Turtle , upon Whose-ancient and meteor-riddled shell the disc ultimately rests . |
| 25 | What follows is a description of a typical general practice , but this description should be set against the increasing stratification of legal practice in England and Wales . |
| 26 | Our resort this year is in the Catalan region , with historic old towns contrasting with modern holiday resorts all set against the picturesque backdrop of the snow-capped Pyrenees . |
| 27 | The argument that ‘ conversion ’ to tuberculin positivity by BCG may hinder diagnosis of tuberculosis should surely be set against the laborious surveillance by periodic tuberculin testing and treatment with ( not entirely innocuous ) drugs if positivity should develop . |
| 28 | In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath . |
| 29 | Richly atmospheric , ‘ Bondagers ’ is set against the sprawling landscape of the 1860's borders farms in Scotland . |
| 30 | Richly atmospheric , ‘ Bondagers ’ is set against the sprawling landscape of the 1860s borders farms . |