Example sentences of "[not/n't] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections , for example , are not decided by those electors whose support for particular parties is relatively fixed , but by those relatively uncommitted individuals whose attitudes and voting choices may not set until nearer polling day . |
| 2 | Following the rebuilding after World War II one last ring was created , not set on the line of an ancient set of bulwarks , but designed with the future in mind . |
| 3 | The East Germans were not set on abolishing the distinction between town and country , just perhaps on smothering it in a pall of acidic smoke and rain . |
| 4 | Her love was always for her people , and the quotations from her historic speeches ( which are not set to music ) represent her carefully-chosen communications to them . |
| 5 | The production , created by Nuria Espert , is not set at the conventional house on the hill , but in a tenement block in Nagasaki , in the post-war period . |
| 6 | It may be significant that the stage direction ‘ A Composition in imitation of Hunting ’ — not set by Purcell — and the opening of the Act 5 masque , where the theatre score places his ‘ Dance for Six Monkeys ’ but Q1692 does not , both appear on pages which belong to outer G ( pp.44 and 48 respectively ) . |
| 7 | Hours spent waiting for instructions , wet time , and working on unbonussed operations would be included in total hours worked , but not set against the target hours . |
| 8 | Younger workers are not set in their ways , employers believed . |
| 9 | This month sees the Orbit promotion headed by a new Iain M Banks novel , Against a Dark Background ( £15.99 ) , and while this is not set in the world of the Culture , the novella which gives its name to Banks ' collection of stories The States of the Art ( £5.99 ) is . |
| 10 | As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has said , the Union is not set in concrete ; it has changed over time , but , broadly speaking , we favour the current constitutional arrangements . |
| 11 | ‘ Our product and service standards are geared to what the customer requires , not set in concrete , ’ says ‘ The standard of service is set by the guest . |
| 12 | The charter says quality standards must be explicit and measurable and ‘ not set in such a way as to make black voluntary organisations unable to tender for contracts ’ . |
| 13 | He was not setting in motion the puppets of the past to destroy them . |
| 14 | I mean it 's as simple as that , and I Colonel 's comments , saying how hard done by Wiltshire police constabulary could be next year because we have n't set over the odds budget for this year so that the Home Secretary can take it on . |
| 15 | With eyes that were n't set in sockets but instead hung loose . |