Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb pp] against [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 25 shelf units each 6m long × 3m deep ( these can be free-standing or placed against a wall ) |
| 2 | It is a family history that becomes much more interesting when set against the wider background of the local history of an important industry . |
| 3 | While it is true that many of the great names of the past have been theists rather than atheists , their orientation has often been unorthodox when judged against the norms of their day . |
| 4 | The village was an unprepossessing one : a few villagers , hooded and cloaked against the cold , scurried about , shooing scrawny chickens away from the horses . |
| 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 | The judge found the wife 's contribution to be ‘ exceptional by ordinary standards , if not exceptional as measured against the ( husband 's ) contribution . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The government allocated £6.5 million to ease the transition but this was totally inadequate when set against the costs associated with reorganisation . |
| 10 | Perhaps they compared what had occurred with elections in the Libyan past , or in other countries , and found their proceedings undignified when measured against an American presidential campaign , or the decorum of a Moscow election . |
| 11 | If the court order refers to matters other than the matrimonial home it is no doubt better to keep these extraneous matters private and to prepare an abstract ( and mark the same as examined against the original order ) of the relevant part of the court order . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Miles groaned inwardly , knowing instinctively that the how and the why of a thing were almost irrelevant when placed against the fact . |
| 14 | Few thoughtful people do not now fear nuclear catastrophe within a period which is infinitesimal when set against the history of mankind . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is rather cruel when set against the examples of his predecessors . |
| 18 | The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes . |
| 19 | If a cube is sidelit and viewed against a neutral background , its vertical edges can be seen in sharp relief . |
| 20 | The flowers can be semi-double , double and quartered , but have a limited colour range from the white of the base species through blush to pink — which is attractive when seen against the grey-green foliage . |