Example sentences of "set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He adds , ‘ it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the government has taken power : ( a ) to set for each authority what is to be regarded as the ‘ needed ’ level of spending , ( b ) to enforce that level of spending by manipulation of grant' . |
| 2 | Leave to set for 24 hours . |
| 3 | Where we have the , the erm , responsibility for a formal consultation , er , then we need to set about that process as soon as possible to try and meet our deadline , Mr Chairman . |
| 4 | Foliage will be as important as flower , and we 'll need to think about texture — rough leaves versus smooth ; tall spiky plants to set against rounded shapes and so on . |
| 5 | Despite the tour results , with only two wins and two draws to set against four defeats , Sole cited the tour as a success in bringing on newcomers . |
| 6 | Most of her flowers therefore tend to be in blue , which she would really prefer to combine merely with white to set against all the greens of the garden — but soft shades of mauve and pink also creep in . |
| 7 | To set against that , however , Ford entered office at a moment when confidence in political leaders had collapsed catastrophically and when the anti-authority tradition embedded in the American political culture had resurfaced . |
| 8 | Its use as a means of defining order or to set against those outside creates a subcultural style , which is reinforced continually . |
| 9 | Mergers between potential rivals , on the other hand , will almost certainly have adverse effects on market performance to set against any gains accruing from co-operative R&D . |
| 10 | To set against this the prosaic virtues of humility and obedience , and to make them seem not merely right but also interesting , is — when the writer is a fallen creature writing for other fallen creatures — an impossible task . |
| 11 | It is then important to set against this the qualitative assessments and for management to discuss the relative importance of each type of information before the final decisions are made . |
| 12 | To set against this trend , however , there was much evidence to support the view that the public continued to look to government for assistance . |
| 13 | The old rate would still apply to essential imports , but it was planned to set in due course another new rate ( somewhere between the two ) for non-essential imports and possibly some types of export . |
| 14 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 15 | There was no atmosphere of narrow morality in the house — scarcely any evidence of mental activity at all , let alone a moral climate — but on the wall of the living-room was a pictorial chart of ‘ The Ascent to Heaven and the Descent to Hell ’ , snakes-and-ladders style , and on either side of the entrance to the everlasting bonfire were the figures of Venus and Bacchus , the whole chart a vulgar allegory to set beside that Bedfordshire classic , The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 16 | Initially , we will set for all i and j , assume all lines are available and take the current line to be row l . |
| 17 | The military importance of the islands in safeguarding the Soviet fleet 's access to the Pacific , together with the potentially rich fishing rights , the past Soviet stance on the issue , and the precedent which it could set for those wishing to revise the Soviet Union 's post-1945 boundaries , were all cited as reasons for the Soviet government 's reluctance to surrender the territory . |
| 18 | The Government would like the bill to complete its Commons passage as soon as possible after Denmark votes in its second referendum on the treaty , set for mid May . |
| 19 | In the DTI , for example , resource inputs into financial assistance schemes were measured against outputs ( such as jobs created/safeguarded ) enabling the cost-effectiveness of the programme to be assessed , and targets set for future schemes ( Progress in Financial Management in Government Departments , 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the Hague Convention deals with a limited issue , that of service abroad ; it does not affect the rules as to the extent of the jurisdiction of the courts of a particular state , the rules of the forum court as to which documents are required to be served , nor the time-limits set for procedural steps under that law . |
| 21 | The taxpayer : The financial targets set for each agency are designed to be demanding , ‘ so that the taxpayer can be certain that the money that is provided for these services is used in the most efficient way ’ . |
| 22 | Control is exercised by financial techniques and revision of the objectives set for each unit . |
| 23 | A machine-readable data set for each diet of elections , and for elections in each tier of local government over time , will be deposited with the ESRC Data Archive . |
| 24 | City : C & W set for joint venture with Russians |
| 25 | But the credit-worthiness requirements which they set for new customers are relatively stringent . |
| 26 | The emission standards set for new vehicles gave due consideration to the technological feasibility and economic cost of compliance by the vehicle manufacturers and the standards which emerged were similar to those already adopted by California . |
| 27 | Following the submission of a Gallup report on the matter the BPI have decided to instigate a full investigation with hearings set for early September . |
| 28 | You can do this each year on a percentage basis which you set for that year on the basis of your knowledge of the church-going habits of the congregation . |
| 29 | You are now all set for that sweet treat we 've been promising you . |
| 30 | NEW fixed-rate mortgages include 7.79% until January 1995 from Abbey National , and Cheltenham & Gloucester 's 7.5% fixed for two years or 8.75% set for five years . |