Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst there is no denying that from its early days the Castro government provided safe haven and some aid to the revolutionary groups which flocked to Havana from all over Latin America and the Caribbean — in 1959 Cuba was the launching base for unsuccessful attacks on Haiti , Panama and the Dominican Republic — these activities must be set in context . |
| 2 | Under s393A TA 1988 , Case I trading losses may be set against profits of whatever description ( including chargeable gains ) , in the accounting period in which the losses are sustained and against profits from accounting periods falling within the preceding three years . |
| 3 | Inside the manholes the open channels must be set in fine mortar or concrete ‘ benching ’ , with steep falls and smooth finishes . |
| 4 | Brought-forward trading losses can be set against balancing charges arising on the disposal of the target assets . |
| 5 | As regards the Niemecz mechanical organs bearing Haydn compositions : Neumann criticizes me for saying that the machines play ‘ within a narrow range , stating that the machines ’ air brakes can be set in such a way ‘ that the speed is either halved or doubled ’ , and that therefore ‘ the question of an absolute original tempo becomes pointless . ’ |
| 6 | The pentagonal base of a pyramid formed by five equilateral triangles can be set upon each face of a dodecahedron to form a polyhedron of 60 faces . |
| 7 | In this way , legislative bounds can be set to the common law principle , as Mr. Glick insists that they should . |
| 8 | Thus , all weights on its inputs might be set to -2 , and its threshold t may be -1 . |
| 9 | To catch effectively , long-nets must be set in clear , open ground . |
| 10 | If governors are to be helped to perform their duties under the 1981 Act effectively , these duties must be set into the context of the responsibilities imposed by the 1986 and 1988 Acts . |
| 11 | The object here is to make the model fly as smoothly as possible and , ideally , the control movements should be set to the absolute minimum , while the gyro gain should be as high as possible . |
| 12 | Such shortcomings must be set against the big truth — that today 's CAP is a supremely insidious way of extracting $85 billion from consumers within the EC , and queering the pitch for farmers everywhere else . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The revised tenancies and those they replaced differ from the regulated tenancies under the 1977 Rent Act in that there is a weakening of security of tenure and other rights , and most rents will be set at market level . |
| 15 | The organization of competitive pupil participation thus avoids excesses of boredom and inattention especially where false questioning trails can be set in the early stages and the ‘ answer ’ or ‘ point ’ of the lesson delayed so that pupils have to work hard to discover it . |
| 16 | The number of dots per inch in the horizontal and vertical directions can be set to 72 to ensure equal vertical and horizontal scales . |
| 17 | Targets may be set for any parameter that can be measured as the project proceeds , such as cost , time and performance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Preferably targets should be set for individuals where the bonus earned is directly related to personal effort . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To ensure that estates are motivated to take part , culling targets would be set by local deer management trusts ( LDMTs ) , developed from existing voluntary deer management groups and based around discrete deer populations . |
| 22 | He hoped that the tightly packed deuterium atoms would be set in motion , their nuclei bumping into one another and fusing . |
| 23 | The rent officer is also responsible for monitoring the rents which voluntary hostels can claim back in the form of housing benefits , and there are fears that the limits for hostels will be set at too low a level creating difficulties for both residents and the hostel management . |
| 24 | With such a framework of authority , which is clearly a top-down one , objectives and targets can be set for managers , and indeed all in the enterprise . |
| 25 | The number of pieces can be set between 12 and 120 , and an added complication can be added by rotating the pieces . |
| 26 | Here conditions may be set by the most senior officer present . |
| 27 | It is true that Robert Harley ( now Earl of Oxford ) and Viscount Bolingbroke seemed to flirt with Jacobitism in the period 1710 – 14 , but they were never sincere , and their actions must be set in the context of their attempts to rally disparate groups of Tories behind them in their own personal struggle for dominance within the party . |
| 28 | Notice that the curved arrow instruction comes first , that is , knit two rows with the main carriage , therefore there is no necessity to have a curved arrow on the third row , the third row of holes will be set by the two knit rows of the fourth row symbol . |
| 29 | The fact is that unless you have a reasonable understanding of what advertising can and can not achieve , you have absolutely no way of deciding what its role in a marketing programme is , what objectives should be set for it , and how to measure whether it has achieved those objectives . |
| 30 | ( The items might be set on a particular occasion as a test of the attainment of the criterion or they might arise in the context of more holistic tasks on separate occasions . ) |