Example sentences of "have set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A line set at exactly right angles to the wind is rare , so you have to set about detecting which is the favoured end , three methods for this are shown in Fig 95 . |
| 2 | To state the problem ( that is to say the intellectual problem we have set for ourselves ) in a way which enables us to go about finding a solution is not easy . |
| 3 | Should the need arise , the two channels can be slaved together , so that the signal passing through Channel 2 is actually controlled by the parameters you have set for Channel 1 . |
| 4 | In the context of the particular brief I have set for myself , I would like , in concluding , to return to the government 's legislative programme and some of the lessons to be learnt from the experience of recent years in translating policy into practice . |
| 5 | ‘ We are meeting the goals we have set for ourselves in returning Digital to profitability and growth , ’ said president and chief executive Robert Palmer . |
| 6 | Editorial decisions are backed by extensive market research , and manuscripts selected and edited according to ‘ whether the story lives up to the high standards that Mills and Boon readers have set for us … we ca n't please every one of our readers all the time , but it is n't for want of trying ! ’ |
| 7 | At Level Two students will plan and organise enterprise activity , taking into account their personal abilities , preferences and the goals which they have set for themselves . |
| 8 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 9 | The people of Louisiana are preparing for the onslaught of Hurricane Andrew which left Southern Florida in tatters , looters have set to work there . |
| 10 | So we thank you for food , for clothing , for our homes , and for the government that you have set over the world . |
| 11 | EAST and West Germany have set in motion a big spy swap , as a sign of rapidly improving relations , it was announced yesterday . |
| 12 | East and West Germany have set in motion a big spy swap , involving 28 agents , as a sign of rapidly improving relations . |
| 13 | Taken together the various reviews and studies I have set in hand constitute the most substantial examination of the social security system since the Beveridge report forty years ago . |
| 14 | In some policies the two problems are seen to be combined where the systems of farming collectively called shifting cultivation have reached a point where their carrying capacity has been exceeded , and fallow periods have become so short that degradation and erosion have set in ( Allan 1967 ) . |
| 15 | We have set in opposition , on the one hand , historical and theoretical genres : historical genres are the result of an observation of literary phenomena ; theoretical genres are deducted from a theory of literature . |
| 16 | Phillip Gates sees the use of surplus agricultural land to make ‘ wildlife corridors ’ as our best hope of helping the natural world adapt to the changes we have set in motion . |
| 17 | ‘ We have to maintain the high standards which we have set in order for growth to continue . ’ |