Example sentences of "[adj] be set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His signature subjects a table carefully laid with talismanic objects , portraits of subjects in period dress , and figures ( now recognisably present day ) standing in enigmatic relationship to one another are set against flat chequerboard backgrounds of piercing primary and secondary colour . |
| 2 | I would therefore propose that September 1993 be set as a tentative deadline for the confirmation of events , dates and locations . |
| 3 | The numbering limits on this were set at 32767 which might , at first glance seem an impressive number . |
| 4 | Many of the verses were in fact small poems , and some were set to music . |
| 5 | This is set at a uniform tax rate throughout the country , pooled and reallocated — so much per adult , with an adjustment for poorer areas . |
| 6 | This is set on one side to start again after emptying out your reward , the valuable compost . |
| 7 | This is set on a sliding scale , depending on whether the school is primary or secondary , day or boarding . |
| 8 | There is a major concern with the specifics of ministerial formation , but this is set within the department 's broader interests and is treated in a soundly academic fashion as in the other forms of professional preparation offered in the University . |
| 9 | If using QFE , make certain that this is set before starting the final turn . |
| 10 | And the disingenuous becomes invidious when this is set against an attempt to locate blame for economic dislocation on its victims , cast inner city residents as ‘ a poor social mix ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p19 ) , and offer instead a radical recasting of multi-national capital as the means of saving the inner cities . |
| 11 | This is set in the hillside below the actual Dentelles — a line of rock blades which run like a dragon 's spine along the top of the hill above the wine village of Gigondas , near Carpentras . |
| 12 | All this is set in the context of conflict . |
| 13 | This is set in the context of the changing international structure of the industries . |
| 14 | This is set in Ulster and sets out to depict ordinary people getting on with their lives . |
| 15 | I understand that an essential site survey has not yet been undertaken , and would ask that this be set in hand immediately . |
| 16 | Assume the bistable is set by pressing the TRIGGER switch , S1 , Q becomes 1 and current passes to the base of the transistor , TR1 , via resistor R3 and operates buzzer , WD1 . |
| 17 | WHAT Saturn glues together , Pluto and Uranus may attempt to sunder — in other words , as much as one situation refuses to budge another is set for blast off . |
| 18 | After discussion this was set at £2 a head for the weekend . |
| 19 | This was set at 1.2 per cent of the GNP of the EC by 1992 , with intermediate ceilings prior to 1992 . |
| 20 | when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list . |
| 21 | Middlesbrough Bears 41 Slangerup 47 THIS was set to be one of the most exciting challenges for the opening of a new season at Middlesbrough 's Cleveland Park last night , but wet and miserable conditions turned it into something of a farce . |
| 22 | This was set as the minimum for contributions to the first loan , in 1522 , men of less substance being let on until , perhaps , the yield had proved disappointing . |
| 23 | All this was set in just about one acre . |
| 24 | This was set against the teaching and learning which the Inspectorate had observed in their school sample . |
| 25 | This was set against a background of rocks , sand , barbed wire and empty ammunition boxes , with large amounts of fake snow sprayed over everything . |
| 26 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 27 | An influx of bright youngtalent was set to work under a dashing editor , Falklands hero Max Hastings , who occasionally took an independent , anti-government line . |
| 28 | Although the holding of outside appointments such as consultancies must be approved by faculty boards , no limit as such is set on the amount of money individuals may receive in this way . |
| 29 | The first was largely devoted to a wedding , the second was set in Vietnam , and the third mostly back in America . |
| 30 | The proposed budget for 1991 was set at US$345,500,000 . |