Example sentences of "[be] set [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The JMP-1 is an attractive 1U package , with what looks like a gold anodised front panel into which has been set a window for all the data controls .
2 Once the standard has been set the court must decide whether the child 's health or development falls significantly short of this .
3 I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding .
4 Much of the Unit 's current work is involved in setting , checking , distributing and marking the examination papers : almost 1100 different papers are set every year .
5 Into recesses in the wall are set a range of marvellous and enigmatic gadgets , clearly the products of some sophisticated science .
6 And I say that because as Mr touched on in his introduction , the West Yorkshire districts are set a methodology for the definition of their housing requirement , buy R P G two .
7 Firstly , because the PRS has a carved top , the gap from the underside of the bridgeplate to the table may need to be set a fraction more than ″ , depending upon the amount of ‘ pull up ’ required on the tremolo .
8 Against this must be set a non-response about twice that for a random sample involving house calls .
9 Alternatively they could be set an exercise to find examples in annual reports and elsewhere of environmental reporting from a range of organizations or industries such as the Oil industry , the Chemical industry etc .
10 Lawrence Weaver , whose work as an author had contributed much to Lutyens 's recognition as an architect , wrote of the Dolls ' House in 1924 that ‘ The planning of a strictly symmetrical house like this is one of the shrewdest tasks that can be set an architect . ’
11 Against such examples of blatant petty mindedness must be set the tone of sympathetic understanding adopted by Lord Gorell and those closest to him in the RCM. the letter he sent out to regional chairmen and secretaries in December 1942 , is a fair indication of his philosophy :
12 Against these points must be set the fatalism with which Law watched his country drift into civil war ; the patriotic party became begetters of rebellion , the party of order suborned crime and mutiny , and the leader of the opposition in parliament approved and supported the destruction of both the practice and the authority of parliament .
13 Overall , the effect of the suspension of indexation will raise an additional £730 million in 1993/4 , although against this must be set the cost of the extension of the 20p band which will cost £370 million , leaving the Treasury £360 million better off in the coming year .
14 On that will be set the tableau .
15 Against this must be set the benefit of working with a consistent software interface , having better compatibility of data between programs and a simpler user interface .
16 Against the benefits has to be set the loss of sovereignty .
17 Against this can be set the fact that the following chapters present very full accounts of their lives and works which should at least allow readers to make their own judgments , especially as we have included ( in an appendix to the book ) details of our ‘ SADS-L ’ procedure .
18 Against this claim must be set the fact that many of the early ecologists were not , in any significant sense , evolutionists ; for all practical purposes they were still dealing with an essentially static world view .
19 Against this has to be set the fact that in times of high inflation the real value of company debt diminishes over time .
20 Following a presentation given by Group environmental manager Jon Lawrence the children were set a questionnaire and asked to design a poster and come up with a project to help safeguard the environment .
21 At the end of the session they were set a homework task and were invited to discuss their feelings .
22 Two hundred young people were set a challenge — put on a full-scale opera , using nothing but rubbish to make the props and scraps of material to create the costumes .
23 It is a particularly successful version compared with those produced by other pupils in the group who were set the task .
24 Teams representing a cross-section of housing interests were set the task of building a sandy estate incorporating a housing mix of family and old folks ' homes .
25 Against this version of criticism of law is set a vision of another mechanism of dispute resolution which is cosy and friendly , in which there are no winners and losers .
26 If no time limit is set the work tends to be unfocused .
27 I mean what we can do is set the oven .
28 This routine had been established for more than a year , so it was no surprise when one Sunday evening in early November , he announced at the supper table , ‘ Me and Maisie 's set a date .
29 ‘ That 's set the record straight , ’ said Winterbottom .
30 CHRISTIE 'S SET an auction record for Islamic metalwork on Tuesday when it sold a silver inlaid brass casket for £242,000 .
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