Example sentences of "be set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In France the direction des consulats et des affaires commerciales which had been set up some years earlier was reorganised in 1882 . |
2 | ‘ All groups have said we will review it in September and there is a general feeling that the charge should not have been set as high as it has been . ’ |
3 | The action on this example has been set quite low and when combined with the almost flat radius of the fingerboard and the slim neck , feels very rock'n'roll indeed . |
4 | ( Experience has shown that the number of such permitted pixels has been set too low , so that the test is probably too sensitive . ) |
5 | Similarly , if the float has been set too high , or it has been damaged , and no longer floats on the surface , water will also reach the overflow . |
6 | However , the quota limits , determined largely by commercial considerations , are now believed to have been set too high . |
7 | Too soon to write them off but the benchmark has been set very high already . |
8 | He found that 600 cartons had been set aside ready for him . |
9 | The lower value limit of goods which can be accepted for sale has been set fairly high — it is rumoured to be £10,000 for the Jewellery Department . |
10 | They are set up each time when the operation is required at run time . |
11 | This species may also be under-represented in trap assemblages if the traps are set even short distances from thick vegetation , for it so rarely ventures into the open . |
12 | ‘ Every year we get scare stories before the budgets are set yet each year there is more money . ’ |
13 | His position develops into scepticism proper ( i.e. the view that knowledge is impossible rather than merely rarer than one thinks ) when the standards are set so high that they can not be fulfilled . |
14 | Otherwise , it should be set slightly off-centre so that there is a little more space to the edge of the frame in the direction in which the subject is looking ; this is called looking room . |
15 | It is important that a long-net should be set completely clear of sticks and brambles for if these become entangled within the net it can not function properly . |
16 | If these are to be set up prior to the implementation of LMS . |
17 | Creating new export possibilities by establishing an EPZ in which exporting-only enterprises can be set up free of most local laws has appealed to many developing countries from the 1970s onwards . |
18 | The major factors influencing group effectiveness can be set under two headings : |
19 | Interestingly , typescript can be set significantly smaller than typewriter output yet be just as readable . |
20 | The output level usually needs to be set fairly high to drive distortion pedals etc. , so as to achieve the best signal-to-noise ratio . |
21 | This means for example that an assessment exercise could be set around two sources which have contradictions . |
22 | On the other hand , the social significance of the offences is likely to be set as much by prosecution policy and sentencing policy as by the label of the offence . |
23 | A certain amount ought to be set aside each year to cover major replacements ( e.g. carpets , furniture , etc . ) . |
24 | But in such a variation on the theme , the influence of carbon dioxide has to be set very small , only one tenth of the strength most climate modellers currently accept , otherwise it would have overwhelmed the volcanic influence and caused the Earth to continue warming through the 1940s , 1950s and 1960s . |
25 | Against these negative memories may be set more frequent instances of closeness and admiration . |
26 | Only one invitation is necessary per family/couple and should be set out six weeks before the wedding . |
27 | Already , 156 hospitals have left the NHS since trusts were set up two years ago . |
28 | It was feared that the push-bike was a health hazard , for example causing ‘ bicycle face ’ , ‘ bicycle hand ’ and ‘ bicycle foot ’ , as well as the dreaded kyphosis bicyclistratum , or ‘ cyclist hump ’ , which resulted if the handle-bars were set too low . |
29 | The loose-boxes were set around three sides of a square and away to the right , half-hidden , was a neglected-looking dwelling . |
30 | In addition to the work being carried out in the UNEP HQ at Nairobi and in the GEMS/GRID site in Geneva , a series of GRID regional nodes are now being set up world-wide , each equipped with the same hardware and software and local subsets of the data . |