Example sentences of "is set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery , or under primitive conditions . |
| 2 | Darlington Council 's next plan is to set to work improving the derelict land sites bordering the River Skerne . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The objective of all the Departments within the Faculty of Humanities is to set before students the example of the highest standards of performance , to teach them to think for themselves , to develop their individual abilities , and to express their ideas cogently and objectively . |
| 5 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 6 | What the defendant has done is to set in motion a chain of events . |
| 7 | DROP DEAD FRED is set to be this year 's A FISH CALLED WANDA ! |
| 8 | If a drawing description file refers to ‘ COLOUR 1 ’ , the actual colour will be whatever colour 1 is set to . |
| 9 | Even longer delays can occur when the printer is set to work . |
| 10 | The ballet is set to Beethoven 's First Piano Concerto and Page and his designer , Howard Hodgkin , have responded to the ‘ formality and intimacy ’ that they find in the score by conjuring a kind of post-modern Court . |
| 11 | The loss of face suffered in Seoul , where the Japanese men won just one gold medal , is set to be corrected . |
| 12 | Another new work Orfeo ( pictured above ) by Kim Brandstrup deals with the myth in the manner of a baroque opera and is set to the computerised harpsichord of Ian Dearden . |
| 13 | THE INTERNATIONAL trade in threatened species of wild orchids is set to be banned , it was announced yesterday . |
| 14 | This virtuous circle , in which labour is rewarded for its genuine efforts , capital is given a return and quality improves , is set to be blown apart if Labour is in government on Friday . |
| 15 | As more and more PCs are networked together , such group productivity software is set to be the success story of the 1990s . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , as AMEC was at pains to point out yesterday , for the next couple of years making money from housebuilding is set to be a struggle . |
| 17 | One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors . |
| 18 | The exception , at West Sussex , has an attractive location in the South East and is set to be modernised and automated . |
| 19 | The ignition timing is set to TDC for use with 2 star petrol , but this is becoming harder to find . |
| 20 | This is determined by the angle the line is set to the wind , as one end is nearly always better than the other . |
| 21 | Torque flow means the water is sucked into a 2p-sized hole in the base of the pump housing but never actually passes through the impeller , which is set to one side of the inlet chamber . |
| 22 | The remaining six controls are for setting parameter values , effect variations or turning the effect on/off , depending on which mode the A2 is set to . |
| 23 | So , for example , when the Note selector is set to E and the Vernier knob is set to 25 cents sharp , the pitch of the tuning will be raised by one quarter of the frequency difference between E and F. |
| 24 | So , for example , when the Note selector is set to E and the Vernier knob is set to 25 cents sharp , the pitch of the tuning will be raised by one quarter of the frequency difference between E and F. |
| 25 | This is less disturbing if the hearing-aid is set to a quieter level . |
| 26 | The cam lever is set to L on Silver machines and on Brother machines both the central buttons ( MC and L ) are pushed in . |
| 27 | COMEDY is set to be one of the strong suits of Meridian which takes over the TVS area and its 5.2 million viewers . |
| 28 | CHRIS KAMARA is set to be priced out of a move to Sheffield United . |
| 29 | You will discover that it is much easier to find the exact point of focus when the zoom is set to telephoto , partly due to the enlargement of the image and partly to the fact that the focus depth of field is much shallower at this end of the zoom . |
| 30 | While you are experimenting with the zoom , note how much easier it is to hold the picture in the viewfinder steady when it is set to wide-angle . |