Example sentences of "[be] set [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom leaned forward , ignoring the piping hot servings of lobster meunière which had just been set reverently in front of them . |
| 2 | where a special area in one housing estate has been set aside for problem families , where they are given daily supervision combined with training and instruction designed to teach them the elements of home craft and mothercraft so that in due course , when they have proved they can manage their affairs , domestic , financial or otherwise , they can return to a better house in a more desirable neighbourhood . |
| 3 | In the meantime modest additional sums have been set aside for research and other support for the subject areas concerned , and some funds are available for further increased infrastructure support once additional accommodation can be made available . |
| 4 | The land had originally been set aside for housing . |
| 5 | A lot of that has been set aside in substance and certainly in the attitudes and language which come from the government . |
| 6 | A further 19 days are set aside for debate on matters selected by the opposition . |
| 7 | There 's a very interesting table which is now produced by the D of E , not by Labour Weekly or anybody else , which lays out the amounts of money that are set aside in order for the collection . |
| 8 | Binding guarantees will be set locally for in-patient waiting times , starting with the operations where waiting causes most distress . |
| 9 | Most books will soon be set completely by computer , and thus the publisher will have a machine-readable version available for analysis . |
| 10 | A windfall for the hard-pressed Scots whisky industry may come in the form of lower excise duty rises which for most other products could be set well above inflation . |
| 11 | The Minister of Constitutional Development , Gerrit van N. Viljoen , in the budget debate in Parliament on May 9-11 , 1990 , outlined a plan for a future constitutional dispensation which , according to the state-owned media , showed that " the government is striving to cater for minorities " [ usually understood in a South African context to mean principally white people , but also Asians and " coloureds " ] and " assures people that the values and aspirations of minorities will not be set aside through majority rule " . |
| 12 | Subsequently he disobeys God disastrously , and has to be set aside as king in favour of David . |
| 13 | Seventy-five per cent of the receipts from council-house sales , and half of the receipts from other sales , must be set aside as provision to meet credit liabilities ( Local Government and Housing Act 1989 : Clause 59 ) , and only the remainder is available for further capital expenditure . |
| 14 | Centrally planned production targets required that 2 million hectares be set aside for cotton production each year , with no provision for crop rotation to allow natural pest control ; the resulting heavy use of pesticides led to severe problems with soil-borne disease . |
| 15 | The document sets out various skills that should be mastered during the year and also states that time should be set aside for education , including protected time within the working week for private study . |
| 16 | Even so , as Lord Atkin pointed out in Bell v Lever Bros Ltd [ 1932 ] AC 161 ( at p218 ) , a contract may be set aside for mistake as to the quality of the goods if " it is the mistake of both parties , and is as to the existence of some quality which makes the thing without the quality essentially different from the thing as it is believed to be " . |
| 17 | The IMF agreed to Venezuela 's request that 25 per cent of purchases should be set aside for debt reduction , and announced its readiness to consider increasing the amount of the extended arrangement by up to 40 per cent above Venezuela 's IMF quota in the event of financing arrangements being concluded with commercial bank creditors for debt-service reduction . |
| 18 | In its first loan to Venezuela for 25 years , the World Bank on June 15 agreed a sum of $755,000,000 , 25 per cent of which would be set aside for debt reduction , the rest for structural programmes and in support of economic reforms . |
| 19 | Please note : reserved seating is only available at the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall — all other seats are unreserved although some may be set aside for festival patrons , Friends and sponsors . |
| 20 | If it does so , a day will be set aside for debate . |
| 21 | If judgment is so entered it may be set aside under Ord 37 , r 5 . |
| 22 | Are there any matters where auditors ' opinion is agreed to be set aside in favour of valuation agreed between the parties ? |
| 23 | ‘ Will be set once per week … |
| 24 | Four aides-de-camp were appointed and apartments in the Tuileries were set aside for bedroom , study and play room . |
| 25 | One case was reported whereby the intervention of the local inspectorate had resulted in one afternoon per week being set aside for INSET . |
| 26 | Timber production also increased , with a greater proportion being set aside for export . |
| 27 | A fixed price for the land is set marginally above market value . |
| 28 | This is a recess in the hall which is set apart for tea and music and is characterized by a certain daintiness of treatment which bears a feminine relation to the masculine ruggedness of the hall … at the opposite end is the ‘ refectory' ’ … . |
| 29 | A complete and comprehensive chapter is set aside on sample preparations . |
| 30 | The library opens at 8.15 am and from then until 9 pm and from 3.45 pm to 4.30 pm , time is set aside for computer games as long as the microcomputers are not required for more serious work . |