Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all of them limits to possible action were set by economic , social , political or military necessities which were in the main the legacy of the past . |
| 2 | Each Club is set in spacious grounds with an adjacent sandy beach and all offer outstanding value for money proving a popular choice with our clients over a number of years . |
| 3 | Petals of blood is set in post-colonial Kenya . |
| 4 | In February 1990 the government adopted a budget with a projected deficit of 11,442 million francs CFA ; revenue was set at 98,143 million francs CFA , and expenditure at 109,585 million francs CFA . |
| 5 | Total budget revenue was set at 50,500,000 million rupiah , an increase of 18 per cent over the 1990-91 budget ( US$1.00=RPs1,897.44 as at Jan. 14 , 1991 ) . |
| 6 | In 1976 the figure was set at 20,000 , and it was expected in that year that the figure would not exceed 15,000 in the following and subsequent years . |
| 7 | Hours of work are set for certain occupations ( e.g. 40 hours a week ) and overtime may or may not be an option . |
| 8 | The prices of the operations from fillings to complicated bridge work were set by independent experts so dentists would receive a fixed income set by the Doctors ' and Dentists Review Body . |
| 9 | On the other hand if the strategies of parental involvement are n't thoroughly and frequently reviewed then the scene is set for all sorts of problems to arise . |
| 10 | The scene is set for further dissociative experiences . |
| 11 | In France such a ceiling is set at 40 LUs in the Zone de Montagne ( 267 sheep ) and 30 LUs ( 200 sheep ) in the Zone de Piedmont . |
| 12 | Life gets even more complicated when the type is set across different widths , or ‘ measures ’ ( look at p 140 of last week 's issue ) . |
| 13 | The Government-imposed safety limit for annual average exposure to Radon in a home is set at 200 becquerels per cubic metre of air . |
| 14 | The scene was set for Labour to lose ( more than for Thatcher to win ) the election of May 1979 . |
| 15 | By the late 1970s , therefore , the entire scene was set for radical reform : the main ingredients were technological backwardness , bureaucratic stagnation and the failure of all partial attempts to tinker with the system . |
| 16 | And with Quine apparently attracted to Miss Novak , the scene was set for some off-screen highlights . |
| 17 | At 2pm that day , in the Vauxhall district of Birmingham , the scene was set for this drama . |
| 18 | A cliff path walk affords views of Burgh Island , to which Agatha Christie escaped to write in a cliff top gazebo — Evil Under the Sun was set on this 26 acre private island . |
| 19 | The budget deficit ceiling was set at 950,100 million roubles ( US$1=0.5461 roubles at the official rate as at July 13 , 1992 ) , representing 12-14 per cent of the projected 1992 gross national product ( for projected deficit for the first quarter see p. 38923 ) . |
| 20 | Having come across no obvious Selina lookalike among the ladies , I found myself completing an editorial stress quiz , delete where inapplicable , in which your nicotine and alcohol consumption was set against various stress-donating hardships you might or might not be falling foul of . |
| 21 | Irenius is set upon convincing Eudoxus that harsh policies are necessary to subdue and civilise Ireland and that a more moderate approach , which might appear sensible from the vantage of civilised English life across the Irish sea , is inadequate to deal with the dangers posed by Ireland . |
| 22 | Microsoft Corp says it has now shipped the second and final pre-release version of the Windows NT operating system to 70,000 customers and software developers , and says it offers significant improvements in performance , application support , networking and hardware compatibility ; release of the product is set for next quarter . |
| 23 | Taxes are high but not crippling ( income tax in six ranges increases from 12 per cent to 50 per cent , and corporation tax is set at 40 per cent of the profits but mitigated by many concessions ) . |
| 24 | The 200 year old stone farmhouse is set in eight acres of unspoilt countryside near to the village of St. Ferme . |
| 25 | Here is a more down to earth example than the ones suggested above : the drama is set in contemporary Britain , in a small rural area by the coast . |
| 26 | Given that the minimum levels of pupil competence were set by each school district in cognisance of local circumstances , a question was raised concerning whether students who failed to reach the agreed standards could recover damages for their failure to learn , if they were able to demonstrate teacher negligence . |
| 27 | When the interrupt system is on , and any device flag register is set to 1 then the computer finishes the current instruction , switches the interrupt system off , stores the contents of the program counter in the left-most twelve bits of store location 0 , and continues to execute instructions starting at location 1 . |
| 28 | Overall the study considers that a low price is set on unfair deprivation of a job and that unfair dismissal compensation has little deterrent value for most employers wishing to dispense with the services of employees . |
| 29 | Based on current values , up to 1,000,000 forints ' worth of land and 200,000 forints ' worth of other property ( houses , hotels , factories , etc. ) would be compensated in full , with compensation above those limits being awarded against real values on a sliding scale ; the upper limit for awards per claimant was set at 5,000,000 forints ( US$1.00=76.6553 forints as at April 29 , 1991 ) . |
| 30 | Then the only jump instruction that is logically necessary ( though others may be provided for efficiency ) is one to jump if the condition code is set to a specified binary bit pattern ( or perhaps a specified group of patterns ) , and to drop through to the next instruction if the condition code is set to any other pattern . |