Example sentences of "set against an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But they have to be set against an overall decline in psychology degrees , including those taken by Afro-American and Hispanic students . |
| 3 | I caught up with him at his villa just outside Salzburg , which overlooks a small vineyard , set against an imposing mountainous backdrop . |
| 4 | Costs are set against an annual Library estimate , currently totalling £500 , of which some £285 has been spent so far this year . |
| 5 | The USSR , set against an international background of ethnic strife , was a ‘ truly unique example in the history of human civilisation ’ , as he knew from his own experience in the northern Caucasus . |
| 6 | A low wattage bulb glowed half-heartedly beneath a grubby glass lampshade and on the wall to her right was a light switch , round and brown , and set against an embossed biscuit-coloured paper , fading and patchily stained with damp . |
| 7 | These usually consist of large , naturalistic floral garlands or medallions set against an open or sparsely decorated field . |