Example sentences of "set for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in .
2 But , after this , the scene was set for the 1936 Berlin Olympics where , as Richard Mandell points out : ‘ Racial policy permeated all aspects of German life in the Nazi era .
3 Now I am able to say that Barton Willmore has done this work , and it has submitted as part of our submission to the E I P , and in summary what I would say is that I believe that that work demonstrates that the new settlement has to be in the order of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , to begin to achieve the environmental objectives set for the new settlement , and also social objectives which would also be important to the residents of that new settlement .
4 Other people are hoping that the standards that can be set for the 7 , 11 and 14 tests must necessarily be so low that they need hardly be attended to .
5 The stage was set for the following year when Christie 's New York offered the now famous ‘ Egyptian ’ clock , estimated at $200,000–300,000 .
6 The Court of Appeal lifted it as a matter of principle , even though a hearing on the merits was set for the following day .
7 June 6 is the date set for the final closure of St Mary 's hospital , Colchester , when the outpatient department will be transferred to Colchester District General and Severalls hospitals , two years after St Mary 's in-patients were transferred to Severalls Hospital .
8 Having steadily reduced the preparation from organism to circuit , the stage was set for the final reduction ; Kandel 's colleague Samuel Schacher dissected out the specific sensory and motor neurons and incubated them together in a dish ( a procedure known as tissue culture ) .
9 The capture of Côte 304 represented the first breach in the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had prescribed on taking up his command , and with it the stage was set for the final German attack on the Mort Homme , with the elder Falkenhayn once again in command .
10 By the end of the nineties , we could be set for the first Oscars awarded to synthetic actors .
11 From 1771 onwards a series of codes for different provinces , beginning with Silesia , had set for the first time clear official limits to what the lords could demand of their peasants , especially in terms of labour-services .
12 But then the scene was set for the first of Darlington 's structural engineering companies to install a series of iron bridges on the rapidly expanding rail networks .
13 Targets for reducing the death toll from heart disease , cancer and other illnesses were set for the first time last year , yet little has happened since then , the British Medical Association said yesterday .
14 The full release of Data Connection 's SNAP-APPN is set for the second quarter of the year .
15 In an address to the country on Nov. 10 , President José Eduardo Dos Santos announced that a general election would take place on a date provisionally set for the second half of September 1992 and that consultations would continue with political parties and organizations on a firm date .
16 The game was set for the second goal-less draw at the ground in four days , when Andy Melville scored following a free kick .
17 A price of 200 francs CFA per kg. was set for the 1989/90 season , half the previous season 's level .
18 The next meeting was set for the 23rd April but three days later disaster struck the party whilst they were viewing the God 's Gift Copper Mine .
19 Thus the scene was set for the worst disaster in the history of the British Army .
20 Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government .
21 Most of the seminal papers which give rise to paradigm shifts , and the creation of new journals to publish new subjects or combinations of subjects , are first published in the core journal set for the earlier research front , and the clusters which define the new research front may not include the journal which first published the paper which led to its inception .
22 A key feature of any quality assurance programme should be a system whereby managers regularly review different aspects of the service and provide feedback to staff about their performance and the performance of the unit so that new objectives can be set for the next assessment period .
23 New standards were set for the working-class house in terms of space , WC , bathrooms , sunlight and garden space .
24 Either an early access or a general availability announcement has been set for the third quarter of 1993 , three to six months before OSF .
25 On every release , targets are set for the whole sales force by the sales manager or director , in consultation with the marketing division .
26 The traditional essay-type question can be set for the whole class and pupils can respond at their own level .
27 The 10/41 has one CPU , 1Mb cache and comes in June ; the 10/402 with dual 40MHz chips and the 10/512 , with dual 50MHz processors and 1Mb cache are both set for the fourth quarter ; a four-processor 45MHz model is planned for first quarter 1994 .
28 The 10/41 has one CPU , 1Mb cache and comes in June ; the 10/402 with dual 40MHz chips and the 10/512 , with dual 50MHz processors and 1Mb cache are both set for the fourth quarter ; a four-processor 45MHz model is planned for first quarter 1994 .
29 Comdex/Sucesu is set for the Parque Anhembi and Center Norte in Sao Paulo , Brazil August 23-27 and expects 450 exhibitors and 135,000 attendees .
30 Individual limits on emissions of pollutants are set for the 29 coal and oil-fired power stations , and operating conditions and standards are laid out .
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