Example sentences of "it set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What is it set to ?
2 But if you have it set to amps
3 So , too , might the mandated curriculum , be it set at national or provincial level , in its fixing of external curriculum objectives and its restriction of teachers ' room for manoeuvre .
4 She just does n't like she had it set on Saturday , it looked alright
5 The standards it sets on promotion are lower even than Britain 's .
6 Some eight hours later , and for the next four days , it sets about the task of ejecting its companions from the nest .
7 Transfer the icing cut-outs to a sheet of foil or non-stick paper , and rest the ‘ birthday cake ’ cut-out on a piece of foil wrapped around a cake tin , so that it sets into a curved shape .
8 The moon comes up during the day time it 's up in the day time it sets during the day time .
9 By the time it sets off the smoke detector , the corridor is blocked .
10 Melt the remaining 3 oz. of clarified butter and pour it , tepid , over the tongue paste , so that it sets in a sealing layer about one eighth of an inch thick .
11 It sets in a coniferous haze
12 Nevertheless , the design comes directly from the traditional vocabulary and , with thought , it can be performed by dancers who possess strong and precise technique and who can enjoy the challenge it sets before them .
13 ‘ What times do you want it set for ? ’
14 It set as a target the ownership and operation of six such restaurants in the Cheshire area by the end of 1988 .
15 The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do .
16 In doing so , it set in motion a legal process , the result of which is the current Ball Pool Sponsorship Agreement .
17 It set in motion an inquiry into the truth concerning the Princess of Wales , her marriage and her life within the royal family .
18 It set in motion what we call a debris flow , a mixture of 50-ton boulders , rocks , sand and gravel bound together in a kind of slurry , which came rolling down the side canyon and dammed the river .
19 The congress confirmed the decline in party authority when it set in place a leadership divorced as never before from the mechanisms of state and government .
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