Example sentences of "[be] set before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 2 | Three long rows of chairs are set before the stage , and there are tables with candelabras , goblets and punch bowls ( the glass is cracked and filthy ) . |
| 3 | 4 Parties aim to win office and they compete for the support of the electorate at the polls on the basis of programmes of policies , or manifestos , that are set before the electorate for their judgement . |
| 4 | The intonation has been left unadjusted , though , and would need to be set before any serious playing could take place . |
| 5 | Some types require the ‘ static ’ tracking to be set before any running takes place . |
| 6 | The present system frequently results in simple cases being set before the High Court while much more complicated issues are being decided by the county courts . |
| 7 | Never a season passes without something new being set before us ; the resources of the rose seem limitless . |
| 8 | The objective of all the Departments within the Faculty of Humanities is to set before students the example of the highest standards of performance , to teach them to think for themselves , to develop their individual abilities , and to express their ideas cogently and objectively . |
| 9 | The mortar is set before the frosts , and the roof will be on well before the snow . ’ |
| 10 | An array of instances , almost of specimens , is set before us ; and we are invited to make our own observations , inferring from them as much as they will bear . |
| 11 | In 1910 , when the Golden Jubilee of Thomas Street was being celebrated , the Quarterly Board looked at all the work of God on the Circuit and among other things they recorded their feeling that ‘ in Edenderry there is set before us an open door and we are determined to enter in . ’ |
| 12 | Marked A to E , A being the slowest ( recommended for hard metals ) , and E the highest ( for wood ) , the dial is set before cutting begins , so that speed will increase only up to that setting : range is 0 to 2400rpm . |
| 13 | I confess to not being in a position to bring his painstaking research into question so I shall confine myself to what is set before me . |
| 14 | This shows accuracy , however , not prejudice : most of his work is set before the English navvies and engineers descended on Normandy . |
| 15 | If using QFE , make certain that this is set before starting the final turn . |
| 16 | Meal times were silent : everyone at the table in time for grace to be said ; everyone eating what was set before him . |
| 17 | He seized the Scotch that was set before him and drained it . |
| 18 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 19 | Confimation of this came last week when the longest-ever Education Bill was set before Parliament . |