Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead I seemed to be set at the centre of a largish halo of believable ambience . |
| 2 | In April of the same year it was clear from the interim report of the committee that recommendations would be proposed whereby building development would be controlled throughout the country and that compensation for the public acquisition of land would be set at the standard of 31 March 1939 . |
| 3 | Although the numbers will not apparently be limited at the briefings , a notional limit may be set on the number of climbers admitted to the range on any one occasion . |
| 4 | While the local residents might tolerate the noise and disruption from an occasional late night party , some limitation needs to be set on the number of such functions that can take place . |
| 5 | A time-scale should be set for the achievement of each of the steps identified , accompanied by a system of monitoring which is independent of those concerned with accomplishing the aim . |
| 6 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 7 | A particular timescale would be set for the implementation of the appropriate strategies . |
| 8 | Limits might be set for the amount of animal manure put on the land , and for inorganic fertiliser application , based on crop and soil types . |
| 9 | If governors are to be helped to perform their duties under the 1981 Act effectively , these duties must be set into the context of the responsibilities imposed by the 1986 and 1988 Acts . |
| 10 | They must begin teaching a syllabus this September to pupils who will sit their exams in 1994 , but the exam fee will not be set until the end of next year . |
| 11 | The rejection by the Buid of any form of legitimate hierarchy or aggression within their society must be set within the context of a larger cosmological system in which humans are under constant attack by both predatory spirits and lowlanders , and in which they must commit parallel acts of aggression against their animals . |
| 12 | Study of a place 's people will be set within the context of both their physical and their built environment ( with the latter encompassing the entire human-created landscape and not just the pattern of buildings and settlements ) — with neither being determinate of the others , of course , but with all three inter-linked . |
| 13 | A strong balance sheet and attractive business mix must be set against the absence of any recovery in its major markets . |
| 14 | Moreover all of them have to be set against the background of the changing pressures on industry deriving from wider changes in the national and international economy . |
| 15 | The role of day care needs to be set against the background of other services . |
| 16 | But Mr Bull said the good news must be set against the closure of seven groups and the fact that the number of new members fell slightly short of the 1991 targeted figure due to the onset of the recession . |
| 17 | Illicit drug use also has to be set against the context of prescribed drug-taking . |
| 18 | His most significant work , The Critique of Pure Reason , sets out the limits to thought insofar as they can ever be set from the perspective of people who are subject to those limits themselves . |
| 19 | Performance in education is complex , controversial and should properly be set in the context of long time scales . |
| 20 | This debate , however , has to be set in the context of our world , of nation-states and transnational corporations , technologies of power and social movements . |
| 21 | The results will be set in the context of a study of the history of planning theory and urban policy making . |
| 22 | Language teaching will thus be set in the context of other influences . |
| 23 | Rather the programme of study for Key Stage 3 while being set in its subject context of a 5 – 16 continuum , should also be set in the context of the whole school curriculum framework . |
| 24 | It is true that Robert Harley ( now Earl of Oxford ) and Viscount Bolingbroke seemed to flirt with Jacobitism in the period 1710 – 14 , but they were never sincere , and their actions must be set in the context of their attempts to rally disparate groups of Tories behind them in their own personal struggle for dominance within the party . |
| 25 | But they tell us that it will be set in the world of cinema , and will plunder a rich vein of cinematic style to tell the story of a disgraced film star with a secret , a dilemma , and a host of bad memories . |
| 26 | Some words which narrate a story or describe a situation can be set in the form of musical prose and passed over fairly quickly , like the old recitative quoted above . |
| 27 | Fisheries Minister Jan Henry Olsen said a quota would be set after the meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) in Kyoto in May but that he expected it to be in the range of a " few hundred " minke whales a year . |