Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To keep within this ceiling it was agreed that the rate of growth of agricultural expenditure should be set at 74 per cent of the rate of growth of Community GNP . |
| 2 | The minimum length of such a re-entry programme should be set at 144 hours throughout the UK . |
| 3 | To sum up , prices should be set at short-run marginal cost . |
| 4 | The trimpot used to set the first stage gain , should be set at maximum resistance and the multi-turn zero offset trimpot to the centre of its range before this check . |
| 5 | Having first made sure that the master volume is well back , Decimax recommend that the ‘ acoustic correction ’ equaliser should be set for flat response while the desired sounds are assembled . |
| 6 | This premise is in direct opposition to the view , currently fashionable , that defined and prescribed academic targets should be set for each stage of a child 's progress through school . |
| 7 | In any learning task , the proportion of cells in each chip which should be set to 1 is likely to be independent of the number of cells in the chip ; so the number of learning cycles will be roughly proportional to the size of a chip . |
| 8 | If a rudder rate switch is available , this should be set to high rate to encourage the model to turn as rapidly as possible . |
| 9 | The keyboard setting should be set to British if you want to use the pound ( ) sign . |
| 10 | Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’ |
| 11 | What ‘ unfudgeability ’ means is that accounting standards should be set in such a way that accounts can not be fudged ; Mr Damant claims that this is ‘ a new accounting principle ’ . |
| 12 | The target date should be set against these events and progress monitored at each stage . |
| 13 | Therefore in eqn ( 6.11 ) must be set to zero : . |
| 14 | The minimum working age must be set at 16 years , and those over this age shall receive fair remuneration , and for a period of two years shall be entitled to vocational training in working hours . |
| 15 | Blanket speed limits applied to all vehicles must be set at such a low figure as to ensure reasonable safety with the most badly designed vehicle when it is in the worst acceptable state of maintenance . |
| 16 | The picture about paid work must be set alongside that of the unpaid domestic work where the ratio of woman to man hours is reversed . |
| 17 | Inside the manholes the open channels must be set in fine mortar or concrete ‘ benching ’ , with steep falls and smooth finishes . |
| 18 | To catch effectively , long-nets must be set in clear , open ground . |
| 19 | Further — and this was where Kant moved decidedly beyond Hume and everyone else before him — even the most fundamental categories which we use to supply the framework of our knowledge of the world , those of space and time , must be set in this light . |
| 20 | Inevitably , however , pain will sometimes need to be inflicted , and in the absence of anaesthetic , which must be set against this point . |
| 21 | The search for an appropriate response to the problems of conflicts abuse in financial conglomerates , central to which is the increased need to protect investors , must be set within this context . |
| 22 | Thus , all weights on its inputs might be set to -2 , and its threshold t may be -1 . |
| 23 | ‘ If I score points and do well , then I 'll be set against Dusty . |
| 24 | An indication of the importance of the two financial measures ( RSX and JXC ) is provided by the decisive rejection of a joint test of whether both their coefficients could be set to zero . |
| 25 | In theory , new commercial catch quotas could be set at next year 's meeting in Tokyo under a " revised management procedure " ( RMP ) , although any such decision might be so hedged around with qualifications as to make it impossible to fulfil . |
| 26 | So ninety one ninety two a married woman was entitled to a basic personal allowance of three four four five which could be set against any income erm or investment . |
| 27 | On the amount of damages , Mr Lightman said the Court of Appeal had a special responsibility to bear in mind the ‘ dangerous precedent ’ which could be set by such awards , and added that in this case the award was out of all proportion to the alleged libel . |
| 28 | Targets may be set for any parameter that can be measured as the project proceeds , such as cost , time and performance . |
| 29 | Alternatively , limits may be set to particular functions and alarms triggered whenever these are exceeded . |
| 30 | As the boundaries of the relevant area are straight lines it can be evaluated quite simply : and so the average torque can be found from : To allow for slight changes in the load torque , due to wear of the components during the system 's working life , the constant frequency clock would be set between 90 and 100 steps . |