Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a year he had given detailed and authoritative evidence to the House of Commons and been instrumental in the passage of two bills which abolished gaolers ' fees and enabled counties to pay for a proper service ; which allowed discharged defendants to be set at liberty in open court ; and which not only improved sanitation and health arrangements but made it obligatory for justices to have a concern for the health of prisoners . |
| 2 | From the beginning of 1991 , prices for everything except sugar are meant to be set at world market rates , whatever they may be . |
| 3 | The revised tenancies and those they replaced differ from the regulated tenancies under the 1977 Rent Act in that there is a weakening of security of tenure and other rights , and most rents will be set at market level . |
| 4 | Since SMC measures the marginal social opportunity cost in the short run of the resources used to produce this good , price should be set at SMC to equate marginal social cost and marginal social benefit . |
| 5 | ‘ The fathers have eaten sour grapes , and the children 's teeth shall be set on edge . ’ |
| 6 | By the end of the year , Mrs Thatcher was in the chair of a new cabinet committee , Misc. 141 , which had been given the task of preparing for the fast-approaching day when limits would be set on greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 7 | Any flimsy homesteads of clay and brushwood outside the defensive walls ( or even inside if those walls were breached ) were liable to be set on fire regularly , but their hardened inhabitants could usually manage a replacement within a few days ‘ provided we have five or six poles and boughs to cover them ’ . |
| 8 | Bathing , for instance , had to be forbidden along the fashionable coastline ; some ecologists even suggested that Estonian drinking water was so polluted it could be set on fire ! |
| 9 | I want to take you in my arms and kiss you and — ’ He looked to the side to where two people were approaching ; then dropping her hands , he said on a laugh , ‘ I 've only to be seen doing that in public , even holding your hands , and the place would be set on fire . |
| 10 | Audiences ' large capacities for ersatz-importance show how eager they are to be deeply stirred ; how easily gulled ; how low the threshold of enjoyment must be set for music of our time . |
| 11 | A national standard will also be set for outpatient waiting times . |
| 12 | He really had fallen on his feet , and if only Jane would look more kindly on him , they 'd both be set for life . |
| 13 | I 'd be set for life if something like that happened . |
| 14 | From my reading of the evidence , it appears that there is a certain amount of buck-passing between the Ministers in the two Departments about who will identify the gap , where the resources will come from and who will come clean about the budget that will be set for community care provision . |
| 15 | It is hoped that new international standards will also be set for code marks that identify which polymer has been used in plastic packaging manufacture , making recycling that much easier . |
| 16 | Achilles tired and veered towards the stands , seeming to some spectators to carry Pretty Polly wide , but once past she appeared to be set for victory . |
| 17 | Firstly , the TM262 has four heads and 615 cylinders and the Reduced Write Current and Write Precomp should both be set to cylinder 615 , if your low-level format program wants to know . |
| 18 | For example , set the text leading to 11 point and that 's what the rulers should be set to measure . |
| 19 | Some words are already almost music : Shakespeare 's words are already so musical that they can hardly be set to music . |
| 20 | When one colony is markedly smaller than the other and so can not field an imposing team , it is raided , the queen is killed , and workers , pupae and larvae are carried off to be set to work in the victors ' nest . |
| 21 | Frankie would be set to work at the big sink , and before he washed each plate and roasting-pan he would scrape it clean with his fingers and eat every last scrap of chicken , sage and onion stuffing , corned beef , sliced Spam and cheese . |
| 22 | The Boundary Commission should be set to work immediately and told to report in time for new constituencies to be in place for the next election — to bring fair representation across the United Kingdom , ensuring that a vote in Scotland is no longer worth more than one in England , or a vote in one constituency worth more than one in another . |
| 23 | This fan-cooled , solid state power amp can be set to work at any of the world 's voltages , and fed into 4Ω offers 150 watts per channel . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Earlier in the year Jordan had called for the homeless to be set to work on a state-run farm . |
| 26 | The ears must be hollowed out and round shallow recesses cut , in which the glass eyes will later be set with woodfiller . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I have already explained the use of long-nets while ferreting , but long-nets can also be set with advantage on rough pasture ground . |
| 29 | The format of the character string is : Where : The date or both date and time may be set as show below . |
| 30 | One of these possible signals is a panic attack when adrenalin is released into the blood stream and an acute anxiety spiral may then be set into effect . |