Example sentences of "[adv] be set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 — 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 .
6 Language teaching will thus be set in the context of other influences .
7 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 .
8 Rate switches will normally be set to the ‘ high ’ position , with the gyro sensitivity on the ‘ low ’ setting .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 The tax is not in fact ACT , so can not be set against the company 's mainstream corporation tax liability .
15 They must begin teaching a syllabus this September to pupils who will sit their exams in 1994 , but the exam fee will not be set until the end of next year .
16 His most significant work , The Critique of Pure Reason , sets out the limits to thought insofar as they can ever be set from the perspective of people who are subject to those limits themselves .
17 The workhouse — institutional rather than ‘ outdoor ’ relief — was one way of controlling the help given to paupers ; but demands that such institutions should pay for themselves had a hollow ring to it — many of the inmates were there because their skills were not needed in declining industries , so they could hardly be set to work profitably once they were taken within its walls .
18 Some words are already almost music : Shakespeare 's words are already so musical that they can hardly be set to music .
19 I have already explained the use of long-nets while ferreting , but long-nets can also be set with advantage on rough pasture ground .
20 A national standard will also be set for outpatient waiting times .
21 It is hoped that new international standards will also be set for code marks that identify which polymer has been used in plastic packaging manufacture , making recycling that much easier .
22 Rather the programme of study for Key Stage 3 while being set in its subject context of a 5 – 16 continuum , should also be set in the context of the whole school curriculum framework .
23 On the YC-6 , the yarn brake and the colour changer arm must both be set to the double bed position .
24 Firstly , the TM262 has four heads and 615 cylinders and the Reduced Write Current and Write Precomp should both be set to cylinder 615 , if your low-level format program wants to know .
25 He really had fallen on his feet , and if only Jane would look more kindly on him , they 'd both be set for life .
26 I would drive a few yards through the gate marked ‘ private ’ and instantly be set upon by men wielding knobbly aluminium clubs , or I would return from the walk to find my car had been smelted into a set of folding tubular garden furniture .
27 The ears must be hollowed out and round shallow recesses cut , in which the glass eyes will later be set with woodfiller .
28 The conventional meaning of linguistic signs , and their combinations in sentences , constitutes types of conceptualization codified as linguistic knowledge and the tokens of particular and actualized instances must clearly be set in correspondence with them .
29 Performance in education is complex , controversial and should properly be set in the context of long time scales .
30 Therefore , whereas prescribing budgets will inevitably be set in the aggregate , taking into account local social and epidemiological factors , both PACT and formularies are much more likely to lead the GP to consider why a particular drug , and not an alternative including no drug , should be given in a particular instance .
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