Example sentences of "be set [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived . |
| 2 | LANtastic is a peer-to-peer system and because the memory requirement of LANtastic is low , each computer on the network can be set up as a server and still function as a regular PC . |
| 3 | It is sometimes useful to encourage meetings to be set up as a form of ritual . |
| 4 | Wilson also announced that a new Hong Kong Technology Centre was being planned as part of the overall strategy to boost the economy , that an International Business Committee would be set up as a means of tapping the talents of overseas businesspeople for the benefit of the whole community , and that £1,600,000 would be spent to bring pollution under control . |
| 5 | A National Integration Council would be set up as a forum for discussions on these issues . |
| 6 | Each Database can be set up with a range of users and passwords . |
| 7 | The crucial difference is that a trust could be set up with a non-heir as trustee , whereas legacies remained always bound to the need for an heir to discharge them . |
| 8 | a committee may be set up by a board of directors to do ‘ spade work ’ and avoid detailed discussions at board meetings . |
| 9 | I think actually , you have to be set up in a conversation first . |
| 10 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |
| 11 | THE Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , yesterday proposed a cut in prisoners ' parole rights as a main ingredient of a shake-up of the criminal justice system to be set out in a government white paper next month . |
| 12 | If an agreement is reached the terms will then be set out in a heads of agreement . |
| 13 | The trend of judge-made law may be set off by a case involving an atypical trade or may be located in a consumer transaction . |
| 14 | Moreover , a similar or larger proportion claim either to enjoy the frequent change of tasks and environment , the flexibility of " temping " and of being able to take spells off between assignments , or to have commitments which make continuous working impossible ; even if , as one recent survey ( Manpower , 1986 ) showed , this was Sometimes to be set off against a feeling of employment insecurity . |
| 15 | The balance on a client account may not be set off against a sum owed to LCH on any other kind of account . |
| 16 | She was in danger of losing her beloved Mrs Howard , who might be setting up with a brother-in-law in a public house , and I wrote : |