Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The commission 's decision to allocate £1 million of its budget for hospital and community health services to support developments in primary care illustrates the imaginative approach now being adopted by managers who have broken free of a mind set concentrating on acute hospital services and have started to use their resources to respond to need and not demand .
2 A fully customisable front-end groups the systems in a network into management sets according to criteria and policies , however arbitrary , determined by the administrator .
3 OPEN SYSTEMS BANDWAGON SET TO ROLL IN UTRECHT WITH OPENFORUM IN NOVEMBER
4 For Study 4 the total number of films watched in the judgment phase was slightly reduced as was the mean length of a film in order to allow the full stimulus set to appear in the recognition phase , this effectively doubles the amount of information each subject gives in the recognition phase , fortunately this was a part of the experiment which previous subjects had generally found agreeably challenging and intrinsically motivating .
5 City : Waste Management set to float at 600p
6 MICRO FOCUS SET TO CONTINUE WITH MICROSOFT AGREEMENT ?
7 The largest relative increases had occurred in the developing world , with Africa 's population set to grow from 650,000,000 in 1991 to 900,000,000 by the end of the century .
8 Our ‘ comparative advantage ’ — as it has always been — is to grow grass better than most , but with grain prices under CAP reform set to fall towards world level grass is an increasingly expensive feed .
9 This is especially the case where we have an instruction set defined for a compatible range of computers , since it will be difficult to implement economically at the lower ( and cheaper ) end of the range the complex facilities required at the upper end ( though microprogramming may be an answer ) .
10 The VAX has a vast , complex instruction set consisting of 243 instructions .
11 Six data bits encode a character set consisting of the digits 0 to 9 , the letters A to Z , and a number of special symbols ( such as blank and comma ) , as shown in Figure 2.19 .
12 ‘ Then some years after that , ’ Kalchu continued absentmindedly , as though the story had its own momentum like a ball set rolling down a hill , ‘ the Bazaar police came back .
13 Designed to be a showpiece for the new series , the very ambitious script , even in its final form , called for every stage in Polo 's journey to Peking from the Himalayas to be represented with sumptuous interior sets , exterior sets done in the studio , animated map graphics , and a vast array of costumes , props and backdrops .
14 Fig. 3.2 An entity set relating to part of a hospital
15 OECD countries energy use set to rise by 30 per cent
16 The salary-ranges reflect the increased responsibilities involved in their managerial and policy-making functions and are in turn set according to the size of the local authority and its population base .
17 The creative ferment set going at the beginning of the decade had petered out , as directors like Reisz and Richardson lost their sense of direction .
18 Skip hire firm set to move to estate
19 Jury set to retire in rape trial
20 NuTek is delivering operating system software on disk and in ROM , and offers a chip set consisting of three application-specific integrated circuits and a video controller chip to provide the principal logic functions of the Macintosh ; like Apple , it has licensed the NuBus from Texas Instruments Inc .
21 City : US fund set to sue in Tokyo
22 That is the equivalent of a clock set running at the time of the dinosaurs having gained or lost less than a second by today .
23 With production set to double by 1995 and against a background of firmer oil prices , we are well placed for the decade ahead .
24 Flint Castle set to benefit from new marketing plans
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