Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before anyone starts packing their bags , no date has yet been set for the trips . |
| 2 | Night netting requires that your nets are set between the rabbits ' home ground and their feeding areas . |
| 3 | Beside the front doors of the houses at this mining settlement near Peterlee , slates are set into the walls . |
| 4 | Some implements are set with the heads at different angles to make them easier to manoeuvre with one hand . |
| 5 | His initials are set in the cobbles in front of the tower . |
| 6 | Fees are set by the owners under Acts of Parliament , and vary widely . |
| 7 | But on the whole it is easy to value paintings by Japanese artists as they paint similar subjects , and new prices are set by the dealers ' auction which takes place once a month at the Tokyo Bijutsu Club , of which most big dealers are members . |
| 8 | Yet these contexts are set by the parameters of political discourse in exactly the same manner as the conceptual vocabulary of academics and practitioners structures their own treatment of the same issues . |
| 9 | The price can be set below the competitors to attract foreign buyers who have to pay in hard currency . |
| 10 | As confidence grew , partly as a result of the student impression studies , so techniques were employed which permitted cross-institutional comparison , which enabled graduate employer samples to participate in evaluation , and which allowed the appraisal of course realities such as grading patterns and resources to be set alongside the studies of course perceptions . |
| 11 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 12 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 13 | To grasp their real magnitude these figures need to be set against the incomes of other social groups . |
| 14 | These benefits must be set against the costs , measured in both financial and medical terms , so that a judgment can be made on whether the benefits justify the cost . |
| 15 | They will have to learn how to present new lexis , structure and discourse forms appropriate to the tasks to be set in the assessments ; to construct cue cards for the practice of the language functions ; to manage the moves from class teacher to pair work organiser and to individual helper ; and to carry out the assessments in a rigorous manner . |
| 16 | The cooking fires were lit and pots were set over the flames to boil . |
| 17 | Sculptural panels illustrating ‘ Engineering ’ , ‘ Agriculture ’ , ‘ Commerce ’ , ‘ Science ’ , and ‘ Trade ’ were set into the gables , and cameo busts of the directors of the company were placed in the main façade . |
| 18 | Bunks were set against the walls , kerosene heaters gave instant heat , while electric kettles enabled tea or coffee to be made . |
| 19 | The town gates were set in the walls where these principal thoroughfares made their exit . |
| 20 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 21 | The body is undoubtedly ply , which has a sort of push-me-pull-you reputation in this department — the benefits of low cost being set against the disadvantages of poorer tone-producing capabilities . |
| 22 | A badger protection group says it fears that savage dogs are being set upon the animals in a remote area . |
| 23 | Witton , like their opponents , are also attempting to reach the final for the first time and today 's clash at Marine 's Rossett Park ground is all-ticket with a crowd limit of 2,500 being set by the police . |
| 24 | The following succession of chords necessitates a change from A to A ♯ and no more if the harp is set to the notes D , E ♯ , F ♯ , G ♯ , A , B ♯ , C ♯ , for they are then written thus : |
| 25 | The scene is set for the events leading up to the Crucifixion . |
| 26 | In an offer for sale a fixed price is set for the shares to be offered to the public by an issuing house for the company concerned . |
| 27 | San Babila is set on the ruins of a fourth-century church , and that itself was built on the foundations of a pagan temple to the sun . |
| 28 | His face is set with the decisions he 's made . |
| 29 | However , I can tell you that the title is The Life & Times Of Henry Pratt and it is set during the years 1936 to 1953 . |
| 30 | The play is set in the mid-1950s , and it explores the themes of lust , jealousy and guilt in the melodramatic style of that period . |