Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Trax has been set on forestry commision land near Cinderford . |
| 32 | Hampshire county councillor Peter Maxwell was at the meeting and he said that the community charge had been set at £237 , which is £33 below the government guideline . |
| 33 | The second instalment has been set at 140p , but the final instalment has yet to be decided , said Stephen Dorrell , Financial Secretary to the Treasury . |
| 34 | ‘ The PSBR for 1993-94 has therefore been set at £50 billion , some 8 per cent of GDP . |
| 35 | Planned capital expenditure for 1993 has been set at $5 billion . |
| 36 | The Olympic qualifying standard had been set at 64.50m so he went seriously into steroid use for the first time and threw a Commonwealth record of 67.32 within a few months . |
| 37 | But the heavy cost of offshore exploration activity has until now been set against PRT , ’ he explained . |
| 38 | This makes the precedents that have been set in America important to anyone who is interested in playing the market . |
| 39 | Fifteen imitation Victorian gas lamps have been set in tarmac to line the royal party 's route . |
| 40 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |
| 41 | The wheels have already been set in motion . |
| 42 | Plans to rebuild the Foreign Office appear to have been set in motion with the discovery of the poor state of the building and complaints from Palmerston that it was too small and had no rooms suitable for banquets and receptions . |
| 43 | This posed the question : if capitalist equilibrium had been disrupted beyond recall and expanded negative reproduction had been set in motion , how was a new socialist equilibrium to be brought into being ? |
| 44 | The first stage of this initiative is to computerise the existing procedures using conventional techniques and this has been set in motion . |
| 45 | Similar plans have been set in motion in Bendel , Gongola , Oyo and elsewhere . |
| 46 | GUIL : Wheels have been set in motion , and they have their own pace , to which we are … condemned . |
| 47 | An A$970,000,0000 ( US$748,000,000 ) rescue operation by the state government had been set in motion before the announcement , which followed on from the collapse of the merchant banking section of the State Bank of Victoria in August 1990 [ see p. 37658 ] and that of Western Australia 's Rothwells merchant bank in November 1988 [ see p. 37920 ] . |
| 48 | The process had been set in motion on March 15 with the handing over of border crossings to units of a newly formed Macedonian army . |
| 49 | Our various committees are aware of this situation and plans to rectify this have been set in motion . |
| 50 | A trend had already been set in textiles , where the comparative advantage of cheap labour was becoming important . |
| 51 | " The second phase of EMU will start on Jan. 1 , 1994 , after ( i ) the single market programme has been achieved ; and ( ii ) the treaty has been ratified , and by its provisions : ( a ) a process has been set in train designed to ensure the independence of the members of the new monetary institution at the latest when monetary powers have been transferred ; ( b ) the monetary financing of budget deficits has been prohibited and any responsibility on the part of the Community or its member states for one member state 's debt been precluded ; and ( c ) the greatest possible number of member states have adhered to the ERM . |
| 52 | If God created primitive living things like plants for animals to eat ( do plants have theos rights ? ) , then why should He not have created more complex but still primitive beings which kill each other and may be eaten by man who has been set in dominion over all else ? |
| 53 | The cornerstones of this free society have already been set in place : democracy , competition , opportunity , private investment , stewardship and , of course , leadership . |
| 54 | Nevertheless the evidence available , partial and fragmentary though it is , suggests that the structural incentives which have been set in place are starting to operate in the way they were intended and present opportunities to make services more responsive to consumers and more appropriate to local needs . |
| 55 | The ground rules had been set in Australia , but the ground had changed , and It had come into existence . |
| 56 | Also standardisation of interpretation can be ensured if objectives have been set in terms of a specific number of faults . |
| 57 | Tough targets have been set in quality and service levels and everyone has had to adapt to new ways of doing things . |
| 58 | ‘ Ken most of the folk hereabouts ? ’ demanded the customer , uncorking the bottle with his teeth and filling the grubby glass that had been set in front of him . |
| 59 | He said children playing at the scene had been warned to stay away from the posts until they had been set in concrete . |
| 60 | The previous record had been set by Fiorentina , who went 40 league games without defeat in 1955-56 . |