Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I score points and do well , then I 'll be set against Dusty . |
| 2 | I 'd be set for life if something like that happened . |
| 3 | In any learning task , the proportion of cells in each chip which should be set to 1 is likely to be independent of the number of cells in the chip ; so the number of learning cycles will be roughly proportional to the size of a chip . |
| 4 | Inevitably , however , pain will sometimes need to be inflicted , and in the absence of anaesthetic , which must be set against this point . |
| 5 | After 13 weeks of inpatient care the health authority would charge a fixed fee , which could be set at the eightieth percentile of the fees charged by the private sector within a set area , or £500 per week . |
| 6 | On the amount of damages , Mr Lightman said the Court of Appeal had a special responsibility to bear in mind the ‘ dangerous precedent ’ which could be set by such awards , and added that in this case the award was out of all proportion to the alleged libel . |
| 7 | It has been suggested ( Knuth 1969 , pp. 199–201 ) that testing for floating.point zero is not appropriate , and that a more suitable test would be for any value in a small range about zero , the size of which could be set by the programmer . |
| 8 | So ninety one ninety two a married woman was entitled to a basic personal allowance of three four four five which could be set against any income erm or investment . |
| 9 | With the help of his mother and sister , he agreed to continue this work at home which would be set by the school and assessment centre jointly . |
| 10 | There are also two ‘ pad ’ settings , one which puts the ground lift on or off and another which can be set at 40dB , 12dB or 0dB . |
| 11 | An option is to use a clockwork timer , as for a camera or model aircraft dethermaliser , which can be set for specific time delay in minutes and seconds . |
| 12 | A word is a group of electronic components , each of which can be set into either of two states . |
| 13 | Everyone , whether male or female , single or married , now receives their own Personal allowance , which can be set against any income including savings or a pension as well as earned income . |
| 14 | For example , changes in the rate of taxation of company profits , or in the capital allowances which can be set against tax , are believed by many to significantly affect levels of investment . |
| 15 | By the end of the nineties , we could be set for the first Oscars awarded to synthetic actors . |
| 16 | This also makes our text much easier to align as everything will be set to the same leading . |
| 17 | They may be set in the everyday life of 2000 years ago and , therefore , seem somewhat remote from modern times but the meaning of them is still true . |
| 18 | The aim is to provide sufficient directional light to make the decorations sparkle , but they should be set against areas of soft shadow which will throw them into relief . |
| 19 | If rate switches are in use , they should be set in the low position on the cyclic controls , since difficulties are usually pilot-induced ( unintentionally ) and it helps to make the model as docile as possible . |
| 20 | Progressive emergence of partnership forces , combined with provisional intentions and priorities , will clear the ground for tasks and levels of partnership at which they could be set to be identified . |
| 21 | After the war , Unionist candidates with commissions , good war records and decorations made the most of their advantages , especially when they could be set against opponents who had opposed the war or stayed at home . |
| 22 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 23 | Similarity groups tend to be more unified than proximity groups , and they can be set in competition . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | if you 'd actually made a minus there , ignoring capital allowances , you 'd just made a loss of four hundred pounds , then that loss would be for a year of assessment , and in that year of assessment , it could be set against your salary or pensions for that year a as if it was a personal allowance . |
| 26 | Apart from this type of building , attempts had been made in many countries to provide an adequate base for the circular section of the dome so that it could be set upon a square section building . |
| 27 | The comic , left , said : ‘ If we did it , it would be set in World War Two . |
| 28 | This is going to be the same thing , only it will be set in the future . |
| 29 | But they tell us that it will be set in the world of cinema , and will plunder a rich vein of cinematic style to tell the story of a disgraced film star with a secret , a dilemma , and a host of bad memories . |