Example sentences of "set [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The titles you choose for essays you devise yourself can , if you want them to , be made closely to resemble the sorts of questions you are set as prescribed essays or in exams . |
| 2 | The session was marked by the frank and abrasive attitude taken by Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk towards the CIS ( whose collapse he apparently regarded as imminent ) and his combative response when Russian President Boris Yeltsin suggested that the legal basis had been set for joint CIS armed forces . |
| 3 | Both photocopiers have been set for multiple copies , and both have run out of paper . |
| 4 | Hours of work are set for certain occupations ( e.g. 40 hours a week ) and overtime may or may not be an option . |
| 5 | He has watched the same badger set for 46 years , he says , and with an average badger lifespan of under ten years , that means several generations . |
| 6 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 7 | On the other hand if the strategies of parental involvement are n't thoroughly and frequently reviewed then the scene is set for all sorts of problems to arise . |
| 8 | Higher insulation standards will be set for new buildings . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the high-end 620 chip , for moderately to massively parallel servers , is said to be being set for 64 bits with a special environment mode bit that can switch between 32- and 64-bit operation . |
| 10 | By 1988 age-limits had been set for top posts and the way they were filled had become more democratic . |
| 11 | UNITA concluded its seventh congress on March 17 , having re-elected Jonas Savimbi as its president , and stated that it would sign a ceasefire agreement as soon as a date was set for multiparty elections . |
| 12 | But there is not , in fact , one huge divide set between cardboard characters on the one hand and characters in depth on the other . |
| 13 | The Forest of Dean , set between two rivers , the Wye and the Severn , is one of Britain 's few remaining ancient forests . |
| 14 | Links can be set between different tables or data files , so information from more than one file can be included |
| 15 | A double stairway led up from a dusty hallway past walls of hieroglyphics and adolescent gods , set between huge mirrors advertising an Italian cognac popular in the 1920s . |
| 16 | One of the grooms had a whole set of separate bags labelled , ‘ Sunday evening ’ , ‘ Monday morning ’ and so on . |
| 17 | ‘ He might turn out to be set of sub-atomic particles bouncing around in a box in intelligent wave formations , ’ the Doctor fumed . |
| 18 | Together , books and television form a useful alliance which has another set of special characteristics . |
| 19 | If property is fixed , then , as people move into an area that has a superior set of public services , they will drive up property prices in that area . |
| 20 | The state can be conveniently thought of as a rational , unitary decision-maker ( Allison , 1971 , p. 32 ) which has one set of specified goals , one set of perceived options , and a single estimate of the consequences which follow from each alternative available to it . |
| 21 | One of the greatest centres of renaissance art , Raphael and Brumante were born here and it is surrounded by massive ramparts , set amid rolling hills and dominated by the superb 15th century Palazzo Ducale . |
| 22 | Described as ‘ a very English sort of whimsy ’ , his music is rich with 12-string washes of colour set against gentle keyboards and shuns the more industrial stadium rock extravaganza that is Genesis now . |
| 23 | The rugged Cuillins offer classic ridge walks — summer or winter — rock climbs on superb rock and spectacular views across to the islands set against fiery sunsets . |
| 24 | The fact that future losses from punishment have to be set against current gains to defection implies that the rate at which a firm discounts the future will be important . |
| 25 | The business plan 's solution is to transfer existing reserves set against pre-1986 liabilities into a central pot . |
| 26 | For tax purposes , losses may be carried forward and , subject to certain restrictions , set against future profits or they may be relieved against profits elsewhere in a group of companies . |
| 27 | Unrelieved losses may also be carried forward and , subject to certain restrictions , set against future profits . |
| 28 | The saltire mosaic from Ashcroft Houses , Cirencester , also suggests some affinity with the geometric decoration of mosaics at Woodchester and Withington ( see above ) , and yet , set against such comparisons , is the complete absence from the latter sites of arrangements of interlaced squares or saltires . |
| 29 | If there is a lesson to be learnt it is that success has been related to demonstrated achievement in a core of subjects … a qualification requiring a minimum level of achievement and minimum level of performance being set against specified standards . |
| 30 | However , although any extra funds are to be welcomed , this is a very small sum when set against ten years of inaction and a massive increase in the scale of the problem . |