Example sentences of "[modal v] be set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is another way of stating the old rule that price should be set equal to marginal cost . |
| 2 | Dwarf varieties should be set two to three inches deep . |
| 3 | Animals that you have captured specially for testing should be set free immediately afterwards in the place from which they were taken . |
| 4 | But against this destruction must be set some solid achievements , including the Press Unit 's making as much as censorship would allow in a morale-boosting report . |
| 5 | First , and optimally , price could be set equal to marginal costs . |
| 6 | She said you and Abul would be set free . |
| 7 | They would be routed for the second time in their existence , and their slaves — the people — would be set free and return to fight with God against them ! |
| 8 | Soon rumours started that the prisoners in the orphanage would be set free but no one knew where they would go . |
| 9 | In a little while the Wheel would be set alight , released from its cradle and allowed to trundle down the slope , gathering momentum . |
| 10 | Kennedy saw it in what he termed a policy of ‘ constructive repression ’ — which upon examination turns out to consist mainly in restoring the autonomy of the local official , who will be set free from bureaucratic control to go once again among the people , exercising ‘ sympathy ( in its true and not its debauched sense ) ’ , conducting his business in the vernacular , abandoning that ‘ cold aloofness ’ which is ‘ a vice in a ruler ’ , and seeing that the Crown 's Indian subjects are well-governed , harmless , and content . |
| 11 | The city council now plans to introduce more security patrols but the AA is now campaigniung for a change a law … so that car parks can be set minimum safety and security standards . |
| 12 | @% can be set equal to a decimal integer , but it is easier to use hexadecimal , since each byte can then be considered separately . |
| 13 | Following systems such as Quill , properties can be set relative to properties of the containing context . |
| 14 | The man convicted of murdering pregnant housewife Marie Wilkes says he hopes to get bail so he can be set free . |