Example sentences of "already set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tables , covered in the finest white linen and already set with bone china and heirloom silver , provided a delightful contrast . |
| 2 | That is , when a cell divides , the daughter cells may be dissimilar and already set along different developmental pathways , and so no cell-to-cell interactions need be involved . |
| 3 | More conclusive evidence comes from experiments in which the nucleus is removed from a fertilized egg , and is replaced by the nucleus of a cell which is already set on the road to becoming , for example , a gut cell or a skin cell . |
| 4 | The disaster is already set to be the world 's worst for ground casualties inflicted by a crashing aircraft . |
| 5 | You will notice in the dialog box that appears that the Type is already set to Date and that the Date Unit box is not greyed out . |
| 6 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |
| 7 | The scene was already set for Charles to become a new Western Emperor . |
| 8 | In ‘ random mode ’ , the time controller will switch an appliance on and off at random intervals during the four ON periods already set for the programme mode . |
| 9 | The table was already set for high tea , with ham , bread and butter and a very yellow cake . |
| 10 | ( March 10 was the date already set for the dissolution of Parliament in advance of the general election . ) |
| 11 | Rot had already set into the damp wood and she was able to break chunks off the strut as though they were bits of soggy cardboard . |
| 12 | It would seem that the most likely explanation is that the Evangelists believed the purpose of the parables was to hide the truth from those whose hearts were already set against Christianity . |
| 13 | The race is also being used by Poland , Mexico , Norway and Denmark as their trials for the Olympic Games and though the field is not so strong at the front , it looks to be a proving ground for the visitors , in an effort to beat times already set by their countrymen to enable them to go to Barcelona . |
| 14 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 15 | If the early universe had been chaotic or irregular , or if the pressure of matter had been low , one would have expected it to produce many more primordial black holes than the limit already set by our observations of the gamma ray background . |
| 16 | Spending levels had been already set by democratically agreed initiatives ( such as Proposition 98 , which guaranteed that 40.3 per cent of state outlays be spent on schools ) , federal rules and court decisions . |
| 17 | Oracle and Sybase have already set in motion plans for parallel-enabled versions of their respective database engines , and other players are expected to follow suit . |
| 18 | The reforms already set in train were either dropped immediately or gradually diluted , and from 1883 a period of intense reaction set in . |
| 19 | Presumably he had already set in motion the machinery which next month would array a large army under his command , but when he approached Limoges he still had only a few men with him . |
| 20 | Of slighter build than his brother , at fifteen Joseph still had the unfinished face of a growing boy , but his features were already set in a more thoughtful , reflective cast than Chuck 's and there was a hint of his mother 's sensitivity in his smile . |
| 21 | Government privatization plans , already set in train in June with the flotation of one-third of the shares in the Ibusz travel agency and the reopening of the Budapest stock exchange [ see p. 37620 ] , were framed in legislation approved by the National Assembly on Sept. 18 . |
| 22 | In all of this , the Library recognises that it can only advance in the closest possible cooperation and consultation with those organisations , most notably university departments and university libraries , which have already set in place the academic and technological infrastructure to which we hope to make an increasingly useful contribution . |
| 23 | She spun round to face him , her mouth already setting into an angry line . |
| 24 | Unflushed toilets are already setting off censor-operated devices in the Environment Ministry building and some of Singapore 's open air sewage centres . |
| 25 | the results are impressive as the steam seals the meat and stops the protein oozing out as it is already setting in the joint . |