Example sentences of "[noun] to [be] set [prep] " 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 | Page makeup software may allow type to be set in 1 point increments and , perhaps , offer half-point line spacing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is , however , no evidence that Ali Kuscu succeeded Molla Husrev , and Uzuncarsili 's statement that he had been transferred to the Ayasofya medrese ( which is not mentioned in the needs to be set against the report that Ali Kuscu accompanied Mehmed II on the campaign against Uzun Hasan ( began Shawwal 877/March 1473 ) and was appointed to the Ayasofya medrese only on their return ( mid-878/autumn 1473 ) . |
| 5 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 6 | The summit also resolved to create " a programme to support development efforts in the Arab and Islamic world " , by setting up a fund expected to total some US$15,000-20,000 million , with contributions to be set by Finance Ministers at a forthcoming meeting . |
| 7 | Enclosed bus/ tram stops that shelter and welcome the passenger need to be set in a traffic-calmed environment , with pedestrian priority across surrounding roads and –unctions.43 in residential areas , these pedestrian networks and public transport stops should be so organised as to provide ‘ safe routes to school ’ , as in the Danish examples discussed in Chapter Ten . |
| 8 | Here landscape regions were identified which permitted an investigation to be made of the social and economic effects of land ) use patterns , and which allowed the territorial organisation of the period to be set within its geographical framework . |
| 9 | The Course does not allow special questions to be set in an examination which are compulsory for some groups of students and not others . |
| 10 | Austin , Texas-based Pencom Software Inc has kicked off a programme to offer prototype device drivers for NextStep 486 expeditiously , to help hardware and peripherals vendors to be set for NextWorld next month . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The main part of the building faced the lake , and the half-glassed partition of the western wall could be rolled back in decent weather to allow a dozen or more tables to be set in the open air , right out over the water . |
| 13 | Consideration is requested for allowing a capital gains tax loss on a qualifying loan to a trader to be set against income , thereby encouraging investment in new businesses . |
| 14 | Both in Lambeth and Liverpool councillors were seeking to exploit a legal loophole — the absence of any statutory date for setting a rate-subsequently removed by the Local Government Act 1986 ( which requires a legal rate to be set by 1 April ) . |
| 15 | Was this was ‘ a good example to be setting to the Chinese Government ’ ? |
| 16 | You will need to ensure that system-wide logical names etc. , are properly set up on system reboot , and you will also require some symbols to be set for all your LIFESPAN users . |
| 17 | In anticipation of the agreement we would like to offer you an advance of 500 on signing the contract and a further advance of 500 on receipt of the manuscripts judged by us to be acceptable , both sums to be set against royalties . |
| 18 | However objectors might have viewed the political reality , it seemed clear that the Inspector saw these bodies as a valuable source of ‘ independent ’ advice to be set alongside the potential ‘ bias ’ of the CEGB . |
| 19 | Some types require the ‘ static ’ tracking to be set before any running takes place . |
| 20 | Standards for exposure to benzene are expected by the UK government to be set in 1993 : a level of 3 ppb is under consideration , although according to the World Health Organization there is " no known safe threshold dose " . |
| 21 | He emphasised the need for standards to be set by those at the top of organisations . |
| 22 | A strategical handicap of increased dependence on imported food and the incalculable cultural loss involved in commitment to an overwhelmingly industrial society were other results to be set against a higher standard of living for the majority . |
| 23 | In the second method the expense charge is set at a constant percentage of the written down value ( WDV ) of the asset — the original cost less the cumulative depreciation charge — resulting in a diminishing absolute amount to be set against revenue . |
| 24 | In the second method the expense charge is set at a constant percentage of the written down value ( WDV ) of the asset — the original cost less the cumulative depreciation charge — resulting in a diminishing absolute amount to be set against revenue . |
| 25 | The minister wants an annual sustainable harvest for minke whales to be set at May 's IWC meeting in Japan . |
| 26 | All morning she had been watching low-slung , sharp-nosed cars complete several circuits , then draw into the pits to be set upon by swarms of mechanics and subjected to intensive fine-tuning . |
| 27 | Political analysts noted that Bush 's problems were compounded by the absence of non-economic issues to be set against the recession . |
| 28 | Each replied that he did not wish to see him without consulting his solicitor as the depositions had been taken and it was understood that nothing further was required other than a date to be set for the trial . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The vaporeuse asked him what level he preferred the steam to be set at . |