Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was rosy and set into the hill . |
| 2 | These teeth are also shorter and set at a different angle from the other teeth . |
| 3 | It is a family history that becomes much more interesting when set against the wider background of the local history of an important industry . |
| 4 | This ambivalence towards public morality was crucial when set alongside the Unionists " extra-legal activities over Ireland . |
| 5 | But maybe this sounds glib when set against the specific and extreme misery of imprisonment . |
| 6 | The argument of achieving ‘ self-fulfilment ’ and of ‘ living as normal a life as possible ’ is seriously flawed when set against the context of an environment that is essentially oppressive and unadaptive and in which professional power establishes and perpetuates patterns of dependency . |
| 7 | But on second thoughts , that comparison also seemed obscenely trite when set against the greater contrasts in values affecting millions of fellow-inhabitants of this planet . |
| 8 | The government allocated £6.5 million to ease the transition but this was totally inadequate when set against the costs associated with reorganisation . |
| 9 | That picture ‘ turned life a little under his very eye … all , through Frances ‘ s eyes , could be made static and beautiful and set in a pattern ’ . |
| 10 | But this increase was minuscule when set against the potential gain from an improvement in industrial productivity which would make up only half the gap between Britain and its competitors . |
| 11 | Few thoughtful people do not now fear nuclear catastrophe within a period which is infinitesimal when set against the history of mankind . |
| 12 | The laws are fairly insignificant when set beside the economic problem , and the near certainty that , even if all its present plans work out , the Government will be compelled to report a worse economic record in its third Parliament than its second . |
| 13 | Jenks argued in the 1950's that these latter policies became less relevant when set against the need to promote the systematic development of international law through the conclusion of multipartite law-making treaties . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This is rather cruel when set against the examples of his predecessors . |
| 16 | Robert Cecil 's total benefits from office in terms of influence and contacts probably brought him more than Sadler 's £2,600 ; but , once again , the increase was not huge when set beside the rise in prices . |