Example sentences of "to [be] set [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each replied that he did not wish to see him without consulting his solicitor as the depositions had been taken and it was understood that nothing further was required other than a date to be set for the trial . |
| 2 | It was the custom when a foreign invader stepped on French soil for the relics of Denis and his companions to be set on the altar , from which they personally conducted the defence of the realm . |
| 3 | While the local residents might tolerate the noise and disruption from an occasional late night party , some limitation needs to be set on the number of such functions that can take place . |
| 4 | Instead I seemed to be set at the centre of a largish halo of believable ambience . |
| 5 | Place a layer of the mixture in the base of the prepared mould , then arrange the melon balls on top , if they are to be set into the mousse . |
| 6 | Well in these days your your sponges had to be set in the afternoon for the men coming in in the morning . |
| 7 | They will have to learn how to present new lexis , structure and discourse forms appropriate to the tasks to be set in the assessments ; to construct cue cards for the practice of the language functions ; to manage the moves from class teacher to pair work organiser and to individual helper ; and to carry out the assessments in a rigorous manner . |
| 8 | This debate , however , has to be set in the context of our world , of nation-states and transnational corporations , technologies of power and social movements . |
| 9 | However , all of this has to be set in the context that whilst still at school children were dependent for their own basic economic support upon the parental generation . |
| 10 | Uniform national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQSs ) were to be set by the EPA to protect public health and welfare ( table 8.1 ) . |
| 11 | As confidence grew , partly as a result of the student impression studies , so techniques were employed which permitted cross-institutional comparison , which enabled graduate employer samples to participate in evaluation , and which allowed the appraisal of course realities such as grading patterns and resources to be set alongside the studies of course perceptions . |
| 12 | Political analysts noted that Bush 's problems were compounded by the absence of non-economic issues to be set against the recession . |
| 13 | And obviously some compromise must be struck as , for example , in the case of transport , where undoubtedly the need and desire for mobility and the distances involved in travel have to be set against the knowledge that roads pollute and fast cars kill . |
| 14 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 15 | The benefits in earnings terms from devaluation have to be set against the increase in these liabilities . |
| 16 | Moreover all of them have to be set against the background of the changing pressures on industry deriving from wider changes in the national and international economy . |
| 17 | The role of day care needs to be set against the background of other services . |
| 18 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 19 | There is , however , no evidence that Ali Kuscu succeeded Molla Husrev , and Uzuncarsili 's statement that he had been transferred to the Ayasofya medrese ( which is not mentioned in the needs to be set against the report that Ali Kuscu accompanied Mehmed II on the campaign against Uzun Hasan ( began Shawwal 877/March 1473 ) and was appointed to the Ayasofya medrese only on their return ( mid-878/autumn 1473 ) . |
| 20 | You will need to warn management of the potentially adverse effects of refusing to appear or to comment and this will need to be set against the fact that having a valid argument does not always guarantee a sympathetic audience . |
| 21 | To grasp their real magnitude these figures need to be set against the incomes of other social groups . |
| 22 | Illicit drug use also has to be set against the context of prescribed drug-taking . |