Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intonation has been left unadjusted , though , and would need to be set before any serious playing could take place . |
| 2 | You will need to warn management of the potentially adverse effects of refusing to appear or to comment and this will need to be set against the fact that having a valid argument does not always guarantee a sympathetic audience . |
| 3 | This should include an attitude of acceptance on the part of the therapist towards the patient 's problems and behaviour , while at the same time limits will need to be set in terms of what the therapist is able to provide and tolerate . |
| 4 | Therefore , the relative prices of index futures appear to be set in accordance with the no-arbitrage condition , adjusted for transaction costs . |
| 5 | New records are expected to be set at next year 's Olympics , where speed skiers will possibly exceed 150mph . |
| 6 | Conversely , Dawson and Parkinson ( chapter 3 ) argue that in Liverpool the unaccountable work of Merseyside Development Corporation has to be set beside the ineffectual work of the putatively democratic local state . |
| 7 | In any case , the importance of reciprocating has to be set beside other motivations which may underpin neighbourly acts as well as those in various forms of voluntary service . |
| 8 | Her deep involvement in the Falklands war and determination to retain British sovereignty over the islands has to be set against Britain 's negotiated return of Hong Kong to China with effect from 1997 and refusal to support or condemn the US invasion of Grenada ( part of the Commonwealth ) . |
| 9 | To return to Clash of the Titans on the problem of stop-motion for organic creatures , Harryhausen made what appears to be a considerable error of judgement , which has to be set against his success with Bubo the Owl . |
| 10 | Illicit drug use also has to be set against the context of prescribed drug-taking . |
| 11 | Yet , such criticism has to be set against a long-term investment programme — including direct job creation — worth four times the value of the federal payroll cuts . |
| 12 | This debate , however , has to be set in the context of our world , of nation-states and transnational corporations , technologies of power and social movements . |
| 13 | Prioritizing corporate crime has to be set in context . |
| 14 | However , all of this has to be set in the context that whilst still at school children were dependent for their own basic economic support upon the parental generation . |
| 15 | This commodity is always in short supply and it is hard fought for , especially after a general election when an order of priority has to be set in the legislative programme for fulfilling manifesto and other pledges . |
| 16 | Before embarking upon a review of some of the findings from my survey , the scene needs to be set with a brief summary of the main arguments and counter-arguments concerning assessment . |
| 17 | While the local residents might tolerate the noise and disruption from an occasional late night party , some limitation needs to be set on the number of such functions that can take place . |
| 18 | It is possible that the boundary between mastery and non-mastery might be set differently for different educational purposes , but it is much more likely that different purposes will prescribe whether a boundary needs to be set at all . |
| 19 | The detachable top ring needs to be set at such a pressure as to stay in for the cast but detach on the strike or more accurately the wind-down . |
| 20 | The role of day care needs to be set against the background of other services . |
| 21 | The formal legal framework of central-local relations needs to be set against actual working relationships . |
| 22 | After making peace Alexander appeared to move in the direction of reform , but his celebrated speech to marshals of the Moscow gentry needs to be set in context . |
| 23 | Half the class refused to go to the lessons , frightened of being set on fire or being thrown through a window , but Endill liked the suspense of waiting to see what each mixture did next . |
| 24 | Instead I seemed to be set at the centre of a largish halo of believable ambience . |
| 25 | The rules of the game , then , far from being set by society so as to ensure fair play for all , seemed to be set by the local authorities . |
| 26 | Several were in groups of four , three standing slabs of stone over which a fourth lay as a roof , others lay tumbled in meaningless heaps , but still others seemed to be set in distinguishable lines and circles . |
| 27 | From the perspective of the late 1980s , the latter two interpretations seem more plausible than the first ; the terms of the conjunctural negotiations , while by no means monolithic , seem to be set by chart pop , ‘ stadium rock ’ , disco , and middle-of-the-road styles . |
| 28 | When work is not in progress on a module but the module must be accessed by a package , the module must be locked against being set to hard copy only and against modification . |
| 29 | However the aperture will probably have to be set at 5.6 and the shutter speed at |
| 30 | You will almost inevitably find , as you begin to think what sort of a story your police procedural might have , that if will have to be set in a city of some size . |