The phrase "against which to check" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a standard or reference point for comparison or evaluation.
Example: "We need a reliable benchmark against which to check our progress in the project."
Alternatives: "to compare against" or "for reference to evaluate".
However, this may have reduced accuracy, as we did not have the absolute values against which to check the positive/negative result.
Because cases per person-years is the recommended measure of disease incidence in a dynamic population, and because inmates are frequently moved from one prison to another throughout a year, calculating inmate cases per person-years gave us a measure against which to check coccidioidomycosis incidence proportions.
This is the lookup table defining which MTL columns to check against.
The aim is to provide an evidence-based aide-memoire against which UNICEF can check its progress in planning the institutional performance improvement dimension of the new MTSP.
There is no empirical reality against which we can check the truth of Henry James's account of her consciousness.
Bland-Altman plots, which are commonly used to check agreement between methods, often depend on one technique being the standard against which the other is measured [ 27].
America is in a crisis, which may, if America is wise or lucky, prompt this nation to reconsider the basic assumptions of its modern society, and to check them against those on which the nation was founded.
Payday loans require a bank account against which a check can be drawn, so while there is some substitution between payday loans and pawns (both auto and traditional), those who use title pawns often are unable to access payday loans (in addition, those who use payday loans often see overdraft protection as a closer substitute than title pawns).
So we need to check how does A do against the possible deviation which is here which is B here, how does that compare with B against itself?
The editors of Bloomberg View, who call the proposals "respectable," lament that "Wheatley stopped short of one measure that would have greatly improved transparency: requiring banks to report actual borrowing transactions, against which the public could check the veracity of the estimates that banks submit".
The Dr was particularly problematic because she did not think and act without prompting, nor was the Dr a source against which the student could check out and confirm her decision before acting.
