Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The handsome parquet flooring had been rewaxed , the girandoles around the walls had been set with pure wax candles purchased from an ecclesiastical suppliers in Hounslow , elaborate arrangements of flowers graced gilded stands all around the walls . |
| 2 | As you go in by the west end of the nave of the parish church , two black memorial plaques have been set into little side chapels on the north and south walls . |
| 3 | On 19th May Edward moved into the Tower of London to await his Coronation , which had been set for 22nd June . |
| 4 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 5 | A trial date had finally been set for 17 June 1991 , but given the obvious flimsiness of the case , he was still concerned that somebody within the DEA might be tempted into direct action . |
| 6 | Fostering Society awareness at a local level can be a great help — stamping membership cards in areas was suggested — From the objectives stated in our Development Plan in the first year , it is calculated that the minimum Membership needed for 1987 will be 3,300 — and the responsibility for recruiting the majority of this must rest with our Q.T. 's — the burden can be eased by working together on local projects and targets have been set for each area to reach by the end of this academic year . |
| 7 | After personal educational objectives have been set for each doctor the educational process should be completed by assessment of whether these objectives have been fulfilled . |
| 8 | God 's plan is held to be comprehensive , and has been set for all time . |
| 9 | ‘ The standards for cab design have been set for one person , so we foresee problems with having two seats , ’ says Mr Boswell . |
| 10 | The session was marked by the frank and abrasive attitude taken by Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk towards the CIS ( whose collapse he apparently regarded as imminent ) and his combative response when Russian President Boris Yeltsin suggested that the legal basis had been set for joint CIS armed forces . |
| 11 | Both photocopiers have been set for multiple copies , and both have run out of paper . |
| 12 | By 1988 age-limits had been set for top posts and the way they were filled had become more democratic . |
| 13 | No date has been set for any development to start at St Wulstans . |
| 14 | The Council , and subsequently the Group , gave their approval and the target date for bringing the new system into service has been set for 31 May . |
| 15 | A world record has been set for tight rope walking between two hot air balloons . |
| 16 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 17 | The quota for this year has been set at 120,000 tonnes ( compared with 235,000 in 1989 ) , with a proviso that only 25,000 tonnes can be caught before July , at which point the report of a new study may trigger further cuts . |
| 18 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 19 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 20 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 21 | The titles you choose for essays you devise yourself can , if you want them to , be made closely to resemble the sorts of questions you are set as prescribed essays or in exams . |
| 22 | Hours of work are set for certain occupations ( e.g. 40 hours a week ) and overtime may or may not be an option . |
| 23 | Workstation One/6000 and Workstation One/2 are set for limited availability from December 18 and general availability June 25 ; Workstation One for Windows and Workstation One for Macintosh are out now in the US . |
| 24 | ‘ The lasers are set for automatic response . |
| 25 | First ships in Japan are set for late December , with the machine being launched on the international market in June 1994 . |
| 26 | First ships in Japan are set for late December , with the machine being launched on the international market in June 1994 . |
| 27 | The parity grid arrangement is similar in its operation to the snake in that absolute intervention points are set for each member currency against every other at which central banks are obliged to buy or sell their own currencies . |
| 28 | The fees charged to overseas students are set for each degree at a level which reflects the full cost of tuition for that degree , and are not directly comparable with the reduced and standardised fees charged to students from the United Kingdom and European Community countries . |
| 29 | When you cast on using the ribber , on the first row BOTH carriages knit ; however , on the second , third and fourth rows both carriages are set for circular knitting , so you knit one-and-a-half circles . |
| 30 | Usually a number of variables are set at predefined levels and the resulting values of one or more ‘ response ’ variables observed ; this would be the situation in an industrial experiment to study the variation in yield of some product resulting from changing levels of temperature , amount of catalyst , process time , and so on . |