Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish tag was redeemed for a small reward and it was only when it arrived back in the Central Fisheries Board office , Dublin , that Sea Angling Officer , Peter Green , discovered that a new distance record had been set for their shark tag scheme . |
| 2 | A date has yet to be set for its release . |
| 3 | And all to be set to her account , for she had driven him away ! |
| 4 | Even the railway system constructed under British rule can now be seen to have had an ambiguous role in relation to the Indian economy , for its benefits have to be set against its encouragement of export-based production and its role in opening up India to the inflow of manufactures , mainly from Britain ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 85-.6 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Other priorities for Mr Marshall 's time will be set by his line manager , in consultation with myself . |
| 8 | Children who were identified with a dangerous or destructive person in the parent 's life and so few limits were set on their behaviour . |
| 9 | The manager 's commission does n't have to be the same on everything , and my initial rates with the straits were set by their lawyer at the beginning of our relationship . |
| 10 | She argued that if women were paid the same as men " it would result in many women being dismissed from many trades " , and also accepted without demur , when giving evidence to the Fair Wages Committee a few years later , the proposition that women were satisfied with less money because they were earning " pin money " if married , and " pocket money " if not.38 With such pessimism about equal pay entrenched in the mind of their organizers , with such low evaluation being set on their work , one might argue that it would have been surprising if a militant women 's union could really be organized in the prevailing atmosphere . |
| 11 | Rather the programme of study for Key Stage 3 while being set in its subject context of a 5 – 16 continuum , should also be set in the context of the whole school curriculum framework . |
| 12 | Contrary to the French view that the forthcoming inter-governmental conference on EC unity will complete its agenda by late 1991 , the Prime Minister insisted ‘ no time limit is set for its work . ’ |
| 13 | Williams returns to the Luton midfield , six weeks after a cartilage operation , in place of the suspended Kennedy , and Rodger is set for his League debut at centre-half . |
| 14 | The current level of contributions is set at whatever level is necessary to pay for the current number and level of pension payments . |
| 15 | My first novel , Necropolis , which is set in my home town of Glasgow , will be published this May . |
| 16 | The maximum value of any put is set by its exercise price : . |
| 17 | The 30 per cent target remained a goal under the NDP , but no date was set for its achievement . |
| 18 | Representatives of the transitional government formed in April [ see p. 38852 ] , and of the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ) , met in Paris on June 8 and agreed that the ceasefire agreement signed in Zaïre in March 1991 [ see p. 38134 ] should be revived , although no firm date was set for its implementation . |
| 19 | And she was set on her mission of kindness . |
| 20 | The seal was set on his career in 1771 when he was elected president of the newly established Society of Civil Engineers , an exclusive ‘ club ’ admitting by invitation only the most eminent members of the profession . |
| 21 | A star was set upon my forehead . |
| 22 | This particular political failure of the post-war welfare policies , to provide equality and not just the opportunity for individual achievement , was set in its turn against the dislocation that my mother 's 1950s represent : welfarism in one country did not embody the desire people felt for the world that had shaped them . |
| 23 | Perhaps Mr Browning was entirely above reproach , though there were those who saw him constantly at Isa Blagden 's and thought that friendship promised more ; perhaps he was able to subdue the desires of a healthy man in his prime , but Ferdinando would not be able to if temptation was set in his way . |
| 24 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |