Example sentences of "[be] set [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For the sake of clarity the ascending-node longitudes have all been set equal to each other , though within each group they are in any case much the same .
2 The total supply of labour is shown by the distance on the horizontal axis ; if initially there is an efficient allocation of resources , then O r L o labour is in locality R and O s L o is in locality S. At this point the marginal products of labour are identical at point 1 in the two localities ( assuming that wages are set equal to marginal value product ) .
3 This is another way of stating the old rule that price should be set equal to marginal cost .
4 First , and optimally , price could be set equal to marginal costs .
5 Because altruism has disappeared , price will no longer be set equal to marginal cost ( however defined ) , as well as marginal cost being , possibly , inefficiently high .
6 Dwarf varieties should be set two to three inches deep .
7 Kennedy saw it in what he termed a policy of ‘ constructive repression ’ — which upon examination turns out to consist mainly in restoring the autonomy of the local official , who will be set free from bureaucratic control to go once again among the people , exercising ‘ sympathy ( in its true and not its debauched sense ) ’ , conducting his business in the vernacular , abandoning that ‘ cold aloofness ’ which is ‘ a vice in a ruler ’ , and seeing that the Crown 's Indian subjects are well-governed , harmless , and content .
8 By the fifth and sixth centuries they were set adjacent to larger churches , usually in the atrium facing the narthex .
9 Buildings on six farms were set ablaze during last night .
10 In the middle of the bed , across its width , two substantial bolsters were set next to each other .
11 But conditions were set fair for stable political and economic development .
12 Similarly , right hemisphere patients were inferior at reproducing by touch alone the angle at which two movable rods were set relative to each other ( De Renzi , Faglioni and Scotti 1971 ) .
13 By the Statute of 1861 the 22 million serfs owned by private landlords were set free from personal bondage .
14 In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life .
15 The canisters , which may be from an officially charted dump midway between the Isle of Man and the Kintyre peninsula , floated to shore after apparently being set loose by recent storms .
16 In this case , the terminal is set wide for interactive viewing , and the page size is adjusted to the screen depth automatically .
17 In each case , the beginning of the recession is set equal to 100 .
18 The index is set equal to 100 in 1980 .
19 Suppose that 1984 is chosen as the base year so that the price index is set equal to 100 in that year .
20 The social cost or dead-weight burden of imperfect competition and monopoly power arises because marginal cost is set equal to marginal revenue , which is less than price and marginal consumer benefit .
21 The resulting price and output combination for this period ( 1 ) is unc — price is set equal to short-run marginal cost SMC , and , it turns out in figure 4.1 , is less than long-run marginal cost .
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