Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who have learnt to accept their difficulties without the glimmer of hope are set free . |
| 2 | Note that the relative signs of the spatial components with respect to the time component are set negative , so that in the limit of zero mass eqn ( 4.10 ) reduces to the Minkowski metric equation of SR : . |
| 3 | In this case , the terminal is set wide for interactive viewing , and the page size is adjusted to the screen depth automatically . |
| 4 | Here at the bottom of the sky , I went with him in imagination by the rocks of the mind 's shore and I saw that the sky was thin and could not hold and my mind was set free . |
| 5 | On the night the car was set alight , said Mr Pascoe , with Mr Stockle and Mrs Leyshon tied up inside and pushed off the cliff , she was terrified . |
| 6 | It meant the pound was set free to float to find its own value in world markets . |
| 7 | The terms on which the peasantry were set free perpetuated in new forms many of the obstacles to economic growth and social change characteristic of serfdom . |
| 8 | Torture boy is set free |
| 9 | The rate multiplier is set each year in England and Wales by central government and can not rise by more than the annual rate of inflation . |
| 10 | To set the earth revolving around the sun was to set all hell on the move . |
| 11 | On 24 May police stations were sacked and the stock exchange was set alight . |
| 12 | Oil , that most precious of natural resources , the stuff which makes the wheels of industry turn , was at that moment being set ablaze to pollute the skies or pumped into the Gulf to pollute the seas . |
| 13 | As with the other grammatical devices we have been considering , the function of the article is to set contextual co-ordinates in a way which narrows down the range of inference . |
| 14 | The price marginal cost margin on each product is set equal to ( 1 — 115 ) where S is the degree of scale economies appropriate to the total output mix . |
| 15 | Initially their aim was to set some rules and , as far as possible , stick to them . |
| 16 | A bookcase was set alight in what was the latest in a series of death threats and vandalism aimed at the Mossley Hill MP . |
| 17 | The record was set 16 years ago by David Sandiman , who was then 17 . |
| 18 | Police reported ‘ a huge number of dead ’ as a vast area of the suburb was set ablaze . |
| 19 | Even though the relationship may be in its infancy , the current is set flowing and the Weaving Mother begins to spin her thread . |
| 20 | The resulting price and output combination for this period ( 1 ) is unc — price is set equal to short-run marginal cost SMC , and , it turns out in figure 4.1 , is less than long-run marginal cost . |
| 21 | Instead , the pass mark was set higher for girls ! |
| 22 | The SDR interest rate is determined by reference to a combined market interest rate based on an average of rates on short-term instruments ; the rate is set weekly . |
| 23 | In 1984 it had to be amended further to follow the Euro-notion of ‘ equal pay for work of equal value ’ whereby the pay of women occupying jobs without immediate male comparison is set equal to men 's through the opinion of a judge rather than the operation of market forces . |
| 24 | Left : Lafaille : the 26-years-old mountain guide is setting new standards of boldness and technical difficulty in the French alps . |
| 25 | A COFFIN containing the body of a father-of-five was set ablaze in a garden yesterday as a family feud raged out of control . |
| 26 | This afternoon security men were wiring up the holes caused when a hedge bordering the planned clinic was set alight . |
| 27 | The Wishwa Parishad Hindu temple in Bolton , Greater Manchester , was slightly damaged when inflammable liquid was set alight . |
| 28 | Whashton Springs Farm is set high in the hills , with superb views of the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 29 | This chip is an octal tri-state non-inverting buffer type whose outputs are put into a high impedance state when either pin or pin is set high . |
| 30 | We keep the central heating off as long as possible and the thermostat is set low . |