Example sentences of "[adv] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We can not regard the present statements as necessarily being set in concrete . |
| 7 | THE sequel to Home Alone is set for the record books after pulling in £20 million in its first weekend . |
| 8 | AN OUTSIDER revisiting one of Britain 's great provincial cities — Manchester , Glasgow , Liverpool , Birmingham , or Leeds — after a gap of a quarter-century or so is set for a shock . |
| 9 | A trial date had finally been set for 17 June 1991 , but given the obvious flimsiness of the case , he was still concerned that somebody within the DEA might be tempted into direct action . |
| 10 | The precedent has thus been set for countries to participate in certain areas of common European interest without accepting all EEC structures and policies in their entirety . |
| 11 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 12 | In the sitting room-cum-bedroom of their Darlinghurst first floor flat , the table had already been set for dinner . |
| 13 | The opening price for " Node Check " had already been set by the dealing manager , who had arrived a little earlier . |
| 14 | A list of events for next year has already been set by organisers , planning manager Dave Sargeant , technical manager Dave Spruce and personnel officer Sue Petrulis . |
| 15 | The wheels have already been set in motion . |
| 16 | The first visible sign of his drive for progress has already been set in the nuclear field . |
| 17 | A trend had already been set in textiles , where the comparative advantage of cheap labour was becoming important . |
| 18 | The cornerstones of this free society have already been set in place : democracy , competition , opportunity , private investment , stewardship and , of course , leadership . |
| 19 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 20 | — 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 . |
| 21 | Language teaching will thus be set in the context of other influences . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Rate switches will normally be set to the ‘ high ’ position , with the gyro sensitivity on the ‘ low ’ setting . |
| 24 | World records meanwhile were set by Jacob Van Hulsdonck 's ‘ Corbeille de fleurs et fruits ’ which sold for FFr7.5 million last December and two canvases by Anne Valleyer Coster , ‘ Vase de fleurs et fruits ’ and ‘ Fleurs dans un vase ’ , auctioned in July for FFr4 million . |
| 25 | Normally is set to a preset level and the voltmeter V is calibrated to give Q directly , from which the loss resistance R of the inductor can be calculated if required . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Some words are already almost music : Shakespeare 's words are already so musical that they can hardly be set to music . |
| 29 | Meanwhile figures for Oxfordshire 's council tax have also been set after a meeting which lasted into the early hours of this morning |
| 30 | I have already explained the use of long-nets while ferreting , but long-nets can also be set with advantage on rough pasture ground . |