Example sentences of "[adv] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 2 | One unremarked consequence for both sexes , for example , is that since wives ' allowances can henceforth be set against investment income , there will be more non-taxpayers among bank and building society depositors — and the composite rate of tax on their yield will then be reduced for everybody . |
| 3 | The fine balance between proper execution of the task and its achievement in minimum time can only be set with experience and even then never exactly . |
| 4 | Some of the keynames ( like Beep ) can only be set to one of two values , so Beep=yes means that Windows will beep every time there 's an error . |
| 5 | JustText 's typographic control is excellent but currently type can only be set in increments of a single point and leading control is similarly limited . |
| 6 | We can not regard the present statements as necessarily being set in concrete . |
| 7 | THE sequel to Home Alone is set for the record books after pulling in £20 million in its first weekend . |
| 8 | AN OUTSIDER revisiting one of Britain 's great provincial cities — Manchester , Glasgow , Liverpool , Birmingham , or Leeds — after a gap of a quarter-century or so is set for a shock . |
| 9 | Pile the melon balls into the centre of the mousse if they have not been set into the mixture . |
| 10 | A trial date had finally been set for 17 June 1991 , but given the obvious flimsiness of the case , he was still concerned that somebody within the DEA might be tempted into direct action . |
| 11 | The precedent has thus been set for countries to participate in certain areas of common European interest without accepting all EEC structures and policies in their entirety . |
| 12 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 13 | In the sitting room-cum-bedroom of their Darlinghurst first floor flat , the table had already been set for dinner . |
| 14 | The opening price for " Node Check " had already been set by the dealing manager , who had arrived a little earlier . |
| 15 | A list of events for next year has already been set by organisers , planning manager Dave Sargeant , technical manager Dave Spruce and personnel officer Sue Petrulis . |
| 16 | The wheels have already been set in motion . |
| 17 | The first visible sign of his drive for progress has already been set in the nuclear field . |
| 18 | A trend had already been set in textiles , where the comparative advantage of cheap labour was becoming important . |
| 19 | The cornerstones of this free society have already been set in place : democracy , competition , opportunity , private investment , stewardship and , of course , leadership . |
| 20 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 21 | — DARLINGTON defender Les McJannet and midfielder Gary Gill came through a game for the reserves unscathed and could soon be set for first-team action . |
| 22 | Language teaching will thus be set in the context of other influences . |
| 23 | The appropriation of the other as a form of knowledge within a totalizing system can thus be set alongside the history ( if not the project ) of European imperialism , and the constitution of the other as ‘ other ’ alongside racism and sexism . |
| 24 | Rate switches will normally be set to the ‘ high ’ position , with the gyro sensitivity on the ‘ low ’ setting . |
| 25 | If such a date can not be set during 1997 , then the union will come into effect on 1st January , 1999 , irrespective of the number of countries satisfying the convergence criteria . |
| 26 | But , it is equally important that the imagined outcome should not be set as a goal ; it is not possible to imagine the unexpected however rich our imaginations , and so the possible pot of gold is used to justify our involvement . |
| 27 | When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount . |
| 28 | It is generally argued , however , that the meaning " world " of is a post-Biblical development , and a mere possibility in the relationship of parallelistic lines ( " greater precision " ) can not be set against a linguistic certainty . |
| 29 | If ACT can not be set against the balance on deferred taxation account and recovery is not assured without reasonable doubt the balance must be written off . |
| 30 | The tax is not in fact ACT , so can not be set against the company 's mainstream corporation tax liability . |