Example sentences of "[be] set [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the sake of clarity the ascending-node longitudes have all been set equal to each other , though within each group they are in any case much the same . |
| 2 | Three soccer fans accused of using forged banknotes have been set free by a judge in Turkey , and inflation 's dropped to its lowest level in thirty years . |
| 3 | Beatriz Villamizar , one of the journalists , was reported to have been set free by the cartel in the capital Bogotá on Feb. 5 . |
| 4 | Elinor twisted and swayed and twirled , her blue eyes blazing , the wick having been set afire by Aunt Bedelia . |
| 5 | The building had been set alight by the killer . |
| 6 | The action was alleged to have been initiated around Jan. 22 , at about the same time as other Kuwaiti oil wells and storage tanks had been set alight in an apparent attempt to disrupt the allied air campaign . |
| 7 | The total supply of labour is shown by the distance on the horizontal axis ; if initially there is an efficient allocation of resources , then O r L o labour is in locality R and O s L o is in locality S. At this point the marginal products of labour are identical at point 1 in the two localities ( assuming that wages are set equal to marginal value product ) . |
| 8 | Wigan chairman Stephen Gage said : ‘ Kenny is a very ambitious young man and I 'm confident we are set fair for a good recovery . ’ |
| 9 | This is another way of stating the old rule that price should be set equal to marginal cost . |
| 10 | First , and optimally , price could be set equal to marginal costs . |
| 11 | Because altruism has disappeared , price will no longer be set equal to marginal cost ( however defined ) , as well as marginal cost being , possibly , inefficiently high . |
| 12 | The marginal cost of expansion to R would then be set equal to and the authority would increase its provision of this good . |
| 13 | @% can be set equal to a decimal integer , but it is easier to use hexadecimal , since each byte can then be considered separately . |
| 14 | Following systems such as Quill , properties can be set relative to properties of the containing context . |
| 15 | Most of them were married , with children : they seemed to be set fair on the roads they would be travelling now for the rest of their lives . |
| 16 | As expected Desert Orchid went straight into the lead , and after putting in extravagant leaps at the first two fences seemed to be set fair for an exhibition round . |
| 17 | What Odysseus hears is without consequence for him ; he is able only to nod his head as a sign to be set free from his bonds ; but it is too late ; his men , who do not listen , know only the song 's danger but nothing of its beauty , and leave him at the mast to save him and themselves . |
| 18 | Kennedy saw it in what he termed a policy of ‘ constructive repression ’ — which upon examination turns out to consist mainly in restoring the autonomy of the local official , who will be set free from bureaucratic control to go once again among the people , exercising ‘ sympathy ( in its true and not its debauched sense ) ’ , conducting his business in the vernacular , abandoning that ‘ cold aloofness ’ which is ‘ a vice in a ruler ’ , and seeing that the Crown 's Indian subjects are well-governed , harmless , and content . |
| 19 | Banque Nationale de Paris ( BNP ) , may well be set free before long . |
| 20 | By the fifth and sixth centuries they were set adjacent to larger churches , usually in the atrium facing the narthex . |
| 21 | Buildings on six farms were set ablaze during last night . |
| 22 | In French provincial cities bales of straw and tyres were set ablaze at road junctions . |
| 23 | Thirty official buildings , 17 post offices and six buses were set ablaze in the period . |
| 24 | It was from this hippodrome that the four horses now on the façade of S. Mark 's Cathedral in Venice were originally taken ; they were set high above the track in Istanbul . |
| 25 | But conditions were set fair for stable political and economic development . |
| 26 | Similarly , right hemisphere patients were inferior at reproducing by touch alone the angle at which two movable rods were set relative to each other ( De Renzi , Faglioni and Scotti 1971 ) . |
| 27 | By the Statute of 1861 the 22 million serfs owned by private landlords were set free from personal bondage . |
| 28 | When Labour founded the National Health Service we lifted a great burden from the shoulders of ordinary families who were set free from the financial perils of ill health . |
| 29 | Women & children were set free from slavery & the men unemployed from farming could move to mines & take up jobs which the women & children had previously filled . |
| 30 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |