Example sentences of "[prep] [be] set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was this was ‘ a good example to be setting to the Chinese Government ’ ? |
| 2 | For instrument approaches airfield QNH is to be used until approaching the Final Approach Fix or Final Approach Point , as appropriate , when QFE is to be set at the Initial Point and all flying in the visual circuit is to be conducted on QFE . |
| 3 | Conversely , Dawson and Parkinson ( chapter 3 ) argue that in Liverpool the unaccountable work of Merseyside Development Corporation has to be set beside the ineffectual work of the putatively democratic local state . |
| 4 | This commodity is always in short supply and it is hard fought for , especially after a general election when an order of priority has to be set in the legislative programme for fulfilling manifesto and other pledges . |
| 5 | The main part of the building faced the lake , and the half-glassed partition of the western wall could be rolled back in decent weather to allow a dozen or more tables to be set in the open air , right out over the water . |
| 6 | The rules of the game , then , far from being set by society so as to ensure fair play for all , seemed to be set by the local authorities . |
| 7 | However objectors might have viewed the political reality , it seemed clear that the Inspector saw these bodies as a valuable source of ‘ independent ’ advice to be set alongside the potential ‘ bias ’ of the CEGB . |
| 8 | For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes . |
| 9 | To be set against the longitudinal study is the greater cost although , of course , the basic need to define population and sample is common to both . |
| 10 | These casualty totals have to be set against the continuing growth in traffic which was reported in the first Plan . |