Example sentences of "[be] [adv] set [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 2 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 3 | It would mean a reduced workload for you so I honestly ca n't see why you 're so set against the idea . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're so set against the idea . ’ |
| 5 | Nursing homes are still registered by the health authorities , so their ability to meet , and setting of standards that they 're required to meet , are still set by the health authority , registered by the health authority , and monitored by the health authority . |
| 6 | The best of these are now set on the interior of the west wall ( PLATE 41 ) . |
| 7 | ( 4 ) obtaining familiarity with the types of question which have been consistently set in the past , and making a tentative guess at the likely questions for your examination . |
| 8 | The film flatly denied that there was any problem with dolphin entanglements in drift-nets , saying that the nets were always set in the direction of the prevailing currents , and as marine mammals generally swam with the currents , entanglement was unlikely . |
| 9 | Dates were also set for the enforcement of measures related to maritime transport , industrial , technical , agricultural and energy policy , and for the co-ordination of macro-economic policies , labour relations and institutional matters . |
| 10 | These sloping tables were often set into the ground and were then known as buddles , but there were circular convex and concave huddles which were mechanical . |
| 11 | The result will be a governing coalition for which no one voted , and with policies ( born of the necessity for compromise to effect the coalition ) which were never set before the electorate for their approval and support . |
| 12 | In fact , the tea 's all set in the dining-room as usual and has been for … let me see ’ — she put her head on one side — ‘ how many years ? ’ |
| 13 | The cost or price of borrowing or lending is thus set in the capital market . |
| 14 | This month sees the Orbit promotion headed by a new Iain M Banks novel , Against a Dark Background ( £15.99 ) , and while this is not set in the world of the Culture , the novella which gives its name to Banks ' collection of stories The States of the Art ( £5.99 ) is . |
| 15 | This is normally set at the purchase price or the upper limit of the price if this can not be determined at completion . |
| 16 | the results are impressive as the steam seals the meat and stops the protein oozing out as it is already setting in the joint . |
| 17 | More conclusive evidence comes from experiments in which the nucleus is removed from a fertilized egg , and is replaced by the nucleus of a cell which is already set on the road to becoming , for example , a gut cell or a skin cell . |
| 18 | The Hotel Metropole is prettily set on the water 's edge of Lake Como and its dining-room and terrace are specifically designed to take full advantage of this position , and give enchanting views across the lake . |
| 19 | Having photographed these averagely attractive , effectively anonymous members nestled amongst feathers , emerging from a bunch of Iris buds , tucked up with a wad of £10 notes , or wrapped up in black fishnet material , the stage is ostensibly set for the viewer to compare these peculiar juxtapositions with those more commonly seen in the media where the female body is used instead . |
| 20 | Each candidate has a score associated with it , which is initially set by the pattern recogniser and then updated by each of the analysers ( this score is not shown in the example below for reasons of clarity ) . |
| 21 | The niche is then set into the recess ( with a damp-proof membrane draped behind it in cavity walls ) and is held in place by mirror plates screwed to the rear of the niche surround . |
| 22 | The size of figure represented on the card which an individual child can discriminate is then set against the information in the conversion table which indicates the correct text size usable by the child , as well as indicating the visual aid needed when reading certain print sizes at specific distances . |
| 23 | With the gun under my arm I was all set for the evening . |
| 24 | However , this tablet was only set in the wall in 1456 , and is in conflict with an account written about events on 17 September 1387 . |
| 25 | The tiny single room was jammed with the mossy timbers of disused sheep pens , but the little iron fire grate that once warmed the hardy men who worked here was still set in the foot of the hut 's tottering gable end , and the massive stone lintel had not yet fallen from its place above the doorway . |
| 26 | The world record for speed was probably set in the afternoon of 12 August 1966 , by the London Evening News , At 3. 19 pm a gunman on the run shot three policemen dead in West London . |
| 27 | The defeat of Labour was greeted with relief by health service managers , but critics said the NHS was now set on the road to privatisation and a two-tier service . |
| 28 | The marble block was then set into the wall of the family tomb , so the occupants appeared to be gazing at passers-by as if from a window . |