Example sentences of "[noun] [is] set [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In this case , the terminal is set wide for interactive viewing , and the page size is adjusted to the screen depth automatically .
2 Torture boy is set free
3 The rate multiplier is set each year in England and Wales by central government and can not rise by more than the annual rate of inflation .
4 As with the other grammatical devices we have been considering , the function of the article is to set contextual co-ordinates in a way which narrows down the range of inference .
5 The price marginal cost margin on each product is set equal to ( 1 — 115 ) where S is the degree of scale economies appropriate to the total output mix .
6 The business experience will be invaluable , especially in an era when Canada is setting high priority on Pacific Rim links , with their first priority coming to terms with the language .
7 Even though the relationship may be in its infancy , the current is set flowing and the Weaving Mother begins to spin her thread .
8 The resulting price and output combination for this period ( 1 ) is unc — price is set equal to short-run marginal cost SMC , and , it turns out in figure 4.1 , is less than long-run marginal cost .
9 The SDR interest rate is determined by reference to a combined market interest rate based on an average of rates on short-term instruments ; the rate is set weekly .
10 In 1984 it had to be amended further to follow the Euro-notion of ‘ equal pay for work of equal value ’ whereby the pay of women occupying jobs without immediate male comparison is set equal to men 's through the opinion of a judge rather than the operation of market forces .
11 Left : Lafaille : the 26-years-old mountain guide is setting new standards of boldness and technical difficulty in the French alps .
12 Whashton Springs Farm is set high in the hills , with superb views of the Yorkshire Dales .
13 This chip is an octal tri-state non-inverting buffer type whose outputs are put into a high impedance state when either pin or pin is set high .
14 We keep the central heating off as long as possible and the thermostat is set low .
15 However , in a feedback circuit , if the 1kHz gain is set low , say 30 , or if the ‘ open loop gain ’ of the circuit is limited ( as opposed to very high ) , inaccuracies can creep in beyond the usual tolerances , and special consideration may then be necessary .
16 In each case , the beginning of the recession is set equal to 100 .
17 The index is set equal to 100 in 1980 .
18 Suppose that 1984 is chosen as the base year so that the price index is set equal to 100 in that year .
19 Er all I can say chairman is that the County Council is is working within the approved structure plan strategy which is based on restraint , based primarily on housing restraint but I think that 's what the County Council has done in its er employment land proposals is to set certain parameters which appear to us to really reasonably meet requirements of this authority 's resident population .
20 If this parameter is set high , SPHINX prefers longer words to shorter ones .
21 Business plans can be as simple or as complicated as the designer wishes , but their prime function is to set well-defined goals and to identify the resources in terms of time , finance , accommodation , equipment , personnel and training that will be required to meet the objectives .
22 The social cost or dead-weight burden of imperfect competition and monopoly power arises because marginal cost is set equal to marginal revenue , which is less than price and marginal consumer benefit .
23 The next stage is to set small targets like going past or in the local sweet shop , without buying sweets , before the major trial of waiting in a supermarket queue beside the sweet shelves .
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