Example sentences of "[prep] set [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With these changes , and after setting suitable formats , you can see that amount actually deposited by putting £1 per month away starting in 1900 is only worth £199 . |
| 2 | Andrea Adams , author of Bullying At Work , told the Institute of Personnel Management : ‘ They spend a lot of time undermining people by rubbishing them in front of their workmates after setting impossible tasks . |
| 3 | Although the instruction books that come with new machines recommend certain ways of setting such machines up , I have always liked to experiment across the range of possible settings . |
| 4 | ( This , by the way , is a good example of setting one group up as the norm and treating others as deviant . |
| 5 | For problems with equality constraints subject to RHS parametrisation it may be necessary to use the trick of setting non-basic variables to zero described in Section 6.1 . |
| 6 | The manufacturer delegates to the agent the task of setting final price ( usually ) , output , pre-sale services , and so on , but is rather careful about the construction of the award schedule . |
| 7 | In consequence , they seek to prevent democratic damage and state intervention by choosing to emphasise the desirability of setting legal limits to the powers of a democratically elected parliament . |
| 8 | This is dramatized in table 9.5 , which presents the results of setting each coefficient at plus or minus two standard errors in order to illustrate the potential range of estimates for expenditure needs for an authority ; it must be stressed that this simple procedure overstates the true variability , but we do not have available sufficient information to enable a better assessment . |
| 9 | The Lord Chancellor said that the new conveyancing scheme , ‘ seems to me to show what the Law Society can do by way of setting appropriate standards of service to the public . |
| 10 | A new international organisation , the Forest Stewardship Council ( FSC ) , has been set up by environmental groups with the aim of setting worldwide standards for good forest management . |
| 11 | Most of the practices making savings had done so on their hospital budgets , and this was attributed to a combination of setting favourable contracts , making fewer referrals , and doing more minor surgery in house . |
| 12 | The UK and other European countries came out in favour of setting strict targets on emissions of carbon dioxide , methane and nitrous oxides . |
| 13 | The British Venture Capital Association , for example , is currently looking towards setting common standards for measuring performance . |
| 14 | Starting with research on small towns in the mid-1930s and moving on to larger cities in the next decade , successive community studies analysed political processes as one aspect of the social life of the locality , and concluded that only a handful of people were influential in setting major decisions ( the Lynds , 1937 ; Warner , 1943 ) . |
| 15 | For example , in stimulating the development of community formularies , or in setting indicative budgets , do they take a broad view of cost ( beyond the price of the medicines themselves ) and do they consider the relative effectiveness of medicines ? |
| 16 | The year saw continued progress in setting tighter standards on emissions and in-use testing around the world . |
| 17 | Techniques have been devised by Operational Research scientists to enable organizations to work out the Economic Order Quantity ( EOQ ) for individual stock items , and to aid them in setting optimum re-order levels ( ie the levels at which stock needs to be replaced ) . |
| 18 | An organisation must recognise the importance of the well- motivated work group in setting high-performance goals . |
| 19 | Is he aware that in setting standard spending assessments for prudent local authorities , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment expects them to achieve an even greater reduction in costs and prices ? |
| 20 | One problem will undoubtedly be the growing demands of the European Parliament , backed by Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , to be given a bigger say with the Council of Ministers in setting broad Community economic objectives and in holding a future EC central bank to account . |
| 21 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 22 | Despite this tension , there is also a refusal to examine curricula or practices : student failure , therefore , is the fault of the student 's inability to make the necessary sympathetic adjustment to the requirements of literary judgement ; not the failure of the departments in setting those requirements . |
| 23 | It was preferred to the objective of monetary union because the failure of the Werner Plan had demonstrated the dangers inherent in setting ambitious goals . |
| 24 | Directly accessing the experience of service users avoids inadvertently confounding measures of process and outcome ; where evaluations have used measures of , for example , individual programme goals achieved it may be that the result owes more to staff activity ( in this case , in setting achievable goals ) than to real differences in client experience ( de Kock et al. , 1988 ; Repp and Barton , 1980 ) . |
| 25 | To all who 've been involved in setting this thing up a big thanks . |
| 26 | The workshop participants rightly urge caution in setting national standards for outpatient waiting times , in favour of targets which could ‘ allow differential rates of progress . ’ |
| 27 | Two subsequent recommendations make it clear that the public ( not just clinicians or infertile people ) must have a voice in setting these priorities . |
| 28 | In another factory , this time a machine shop , managers were divided on whether to allow shop-floor workers some aspects of control over setting computerised tools . |
| 29 | There is something paradoxical about this aspiration to lift myself out of nature by the use of reason , since I can not without setting arbitrary limits to reason forbid the sciences of physiology , psychology and sociology to reincorporate me into nature , as a phenomenon in principle explainable and predictable like everything else . |
| 30 | ‘ I just do my daily training , and if a race comes up I go , but without setting any targets . |