Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intonation has been left unadjusted , though , and would need to be set before any serious playing could take place . |
| 2 | New records are expected to be set at next year 's Olympics , where speed skiers will possibly exceed 150mph . |
| 3 | In any case , the importance of reciprocating has to be set beside other motivations which may underpin neighbourly acts as well as those in various forms of voluntary service . |
| 4 | It is possible that the boundary between mastery and non-mastery might be set differently for different educational purposes , but it is much more likely that different purposes will prescribe whether a boundary needs to be set at all . |
| 5 | The detachable top ring needs to be set at such a pressure as to stay in for the cast but detach on the strike or more accurately the wind-down . |
| 6 | The formal legal framework of central-local relations needs to be set against actual working relationships . |
| 7 | Several were in groups of four , three standing slabs of stone over which a fourth lay as a roof , others lay tumbled in meaningless heaps , but still others seemed to be set in distinguishable lines and circles . |
| 8 | However the aperture will probably have to be set at 5.6 and the shutter speed at |
| 9 | The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal . |
| 10 | Some limits had to be set to such claims ; and the selection of such limits , being essentially a matter of policy , was one which the legislature alone is equipped to make . |
| 11 | There were also some difficulties in the supply of raw materials and a new target had to be set of 35 machine sets . |
| 12 | Some limits have to be set to any project . |
| 13 | The fact that future losses from punishment have to be set against current gains to defection implies that the rate at which a firm discounts the future will be important . |
| 14 | If purposeful , goal-directed activity is to take place , clear objectives need to be set for all the organisation 's activities . |
| 15 | To be already known and understood gives an obvious head-start but since this is a particular sort of meeting , disciplined boundaries and clear objectives need to be set by both parties . |