Example sentences of "be set [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 That record had been set earlier in the same evening when ‘ Bob 's worlds ’ ( Sotheby 's lot 37 , est. $250–350,000 ) , an important crockery picture , had been purchased by a telephone bidder against art adviser Jeffrey Deitch .
2 In addition , a special photographer 's area ( including the whole of the former Down platform ) has been set aside for the serious cameraman who wishes to record the event for posterity .
3 ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate .
4 It was a perfect site because the building , for which a quarter of a million pounds ( £8,250,000 ) had been set aside from the Twentieth Century Fund , was meant to be ‘ a challenge to the Church of England ’ .
5 A MAFF spokesman said that the survey was unnecessary : " Pollution controls are set locally to the nuclear sites .
6 While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism .
7 Just as with word processing type can be set flush with the left-hand margin , centred or justified .
8 Tithes were simply proportional taxes levied on the output of the land and herds and used to support the Levites or to be set aside for the poor — widows , orphans , etc .
9 A new pension scheme was to be set up after the sale of a business , and an actuary was to decide the portion of the funds from the old company 's pension scheme to be set aside for the new company 's scheme .
10 The Brazilian Government have recently declared that 94,000 sq kilometres will be set aside for the Yanomami Indians .
11 More than 35pc of accommodation under the scheme will be set aside for the homeless .
12 Nevertheless , the allotment is good and can not be set aside under the above provisions .
13 It has been agreed that the changing rooms at the Stratton Bates playing field needs to be replaced and £10,000 has already be set aside in the current budget towards the cost , which is anticipated to be in the region of £55,000 .
14 As expenditures on arms decline with the ending of the cold war , there may be more money available for aid , but democratic politics being what they are , few would care to bet on it ; certainly not on any percentage saved being set aside for the developing nations .
15 an accent mark which is set separately from the main character and is then placed either over or under it .
16 The Holiday Inn is set right on the white sandy beach of Batu Ferringhi , about 20 minutes drive from Georgetown .
17 Like Baudelaire in Courbet 's painting of the artist 's studio , Minton is set apart from the central group both compositionally and by his introspection .
18 It is Slothrop who gives one kind of impetus to the novel in his desire to explain the correlation between his erections and the falling of the V-2 rockets on London ( the novel is set mainly in the last months of the Second World War ) .
19 The people of Whitby may be familiar with some of the landmarks in his historical romance The Red which is set there in the 1600s .
20 I keep sending memos urging them to make a decision now regarding the next one in four year 's time and asking that BBC2 be set aside on the appointed dates for Ryder Cup coverage .
21 It was generosity and wisdom I was after when I climbed up the steps to her small office which was set apart from the larger huts in the forest clearing .
22 My hon. Friend 's second criticism of the way in which the scheme has worked is that the £24 million budget which was set aside for the two financial years — and I emphasise two years — 1989-91 was underspent .
23 Interim Flight Authority arrived on August 11 , 1992 and the 17th was set aside for the great day .
  Next page