Example sentences of "[is] set [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The next stage is to set small targets like going past or in the local sweet shop , without buying sweets , before the major trial of waiting in a supermarket queue beside the sweet shelves .
2 Er all I can say chairman is that the County Council is is working within the approved structure plan strategy which is based on restraint , based primarily on housing restraint but I think that 's what the County Council has done in its er employment land proposals is to set certain parameters which appear to us to really reasonably meet requirements of this authority 's resident population .
3 As with the other grammatical devices we have been considering , the function of the article is to set contextual co-ordinates in a way which narrows down the range of inference .
4 Business plans can be as simple or as complicated as the designer wishes , but their prime function is to set well-defined goals and to identify the resources in terms of time , finance , accommodation , equipment , personnel and training that will be required to meet the objectives .
5 I mean it 's to set this up , it 's about maths
6 The Lower Earnings Limit ( LEL ) is set each year by the government in April , and is roughly the same as the basic pension .
7 The rate multiplier is set each year in England and Wales by central government and can not rise by more than the annual rate of inflation .
8 It is surrounded by beautiful gardens and many fruit trees and is set 500 metres from the sea and just over a mile down hill from Taormina .
9 In this case , the terminal is set wide for interactive viewing , and the page size is adjusted to the screen depth automatically .
10 In each case , the beginning of the recession is set equal to 100 .
11 The index is set equal to 100 in 1980 .
12 Suppose that 1984 is chosen as the base year so that the price index is set equal to 100 in that year .
13 Look at Figure 3 again ; the transfer price could be one that is set equal to the market price .
14 In 1984 it had to be amended further to follow the Euro-notion of ‘ equal pay for work of equal value ’ whereby the pay of women occupying jobs without immediate male comparison is set equal to men 's through the opinion of a judge rather than the operation of market forces .
15 The price marginal cost margin on each product is set equal to ( 1 — 115 ) where S is the degree of scale economies appropriate to the total output mix .
16 The resulting price and output combination for this period ( 1 ) is unc — price is set equal to short-run marginal cost SMC , and , it turns out in figure 4.1 , is less than long-run marginal cost .
17 The social cost or dead-weight burden of imperfect competition and monopoly power arises because marginal cost is set equal to marginal revenue , which is less than price and marginal consumer benefit .
18 This deposit is known as initial margin and is set equal to the maximum daily loss that is likely to arise on the contract .
19 We keep the central heating off as long as possible and the thermostat is set low .
20 Data is only transferred form one side to the other when the output enable control pin 19 is set low .
21 However , in a feedback circuit , if the 1kHz gain is set low , say 30 , or if the ‘ open loop gain ’ of the circuit is limited ( as opposed to very high ) , inaccuracies can creep in beyond the usual tolerances , and special consideration may then be necessary .
22 The best thing to do is set firm guidelines .
23 Even though the relationship may be in its infancy , the current is set flowing and the Weaving Mother begins to spin her thread .
24 And early September generally is set fair to be a good spell for holidays , says his latest bulletin .
25 When he returns to the town , he is arrested , but is set free by Ferdinand , an African promoted from the bush whose patron he has once been .
26 Torture boy is set free
27 The worst thing you can do is set these things and then cock it up because secretaries is people that pride themselves on being administratively perfect
28 Firstly , Seefeld is just 14 miles from fashionable Innsbruck and is set high on a sunny plateau .
29 This chip is an octal tri-state non-inverting buffer type whose outputs are put into a high impedance state when either pin or pin is set high .
30 Whashton Springs Farm is set high in the hills , with superb views of the Yorkshire Dales .
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