Example sentences of "when set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was aware that the threshold of the audience 's suspension of disbelief lay far below mine ; and that the aching gap between the supposed humour of the script and their exaggerated response was minuscule when set beside that which already separated my reality from theirs . |
| 2 | Yet Nature , on to whom we pitch responsibility for all we can not understand , is n't very good when set to automatic . |
| 3 | This chapter will , therefore , examine the ways in which the early Christians were conscious of the Spirit 's presence in their community ; the next four chapters will glance at some of our contemporary problems concerning the Spirit in the Church , when set against this back ground . |
| 4 | However , although any extra funds are to be welcomed , this is a very small sum when set against ten years of inaction and a massive increase in the scale of the problem . |
| 5 | Our institutions and our conglomerates are modest in size when set alongside General Motors . |