Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] set [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Big House : tear-gas clouds blossoming over mess-hall riots , ‘ the break is set for midnight ’ notes , squealers ‘ accidentally ’ falling under trip-hammers in the workshop . |
| 2 | To record this guide-track , you set the tape to a start-mark and the tape recorder to record-pause ; the video tape is set on play-pause on the first frame of picture . |
| 3 | The scene is set for recovery and growth . ’ |
| 4 | Darlington Council 's next plan is to set to work improving the derelict land sites bordering the River Skerne . |
| 5 | Kidnap girl is set on fire |
| 6 | Finally , because the examination is set on knowledge and abilities required for secondary school entry , and because all children do aspire to such entry , it forces teachers to cover material with their pupils whether they are able to understand it or not ; the very antithesis of sound pedagogy . |
| 7 | But if I speak of a stone that turneth all to gold , or a treasure hidden in the menstruum of whores , then the imagination is set to work . |
| 8 | Deception is set against pretence , and the hypocrite , once exposed , is punished , exiled , or forgiven . |
| 9 | For example , if the transfer price is set below market price , then the selling division might feel penalised and the buying division would be ‘ feather-bedded ’ . |
| 10 | The river 's set with silver , laid with glass . |
| 11 | The distinction between senile and presenile dementia is set at age 65 years , but some patients with presenile onset may not be admitted until after 65 . |
| 12 | In discussion , they point back to the Spanish Inquisition or the St Bartholomew 's Day Massacre as evidence that the Roman Catholic Church is set on persecution of dissenters . |
| 13 | And once this kind of polarization is set in motion , it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in which everyone who is not with us is against us . |
| 14 | The pendentive construction so far described is illustrated in Fig. 175 ‘ D ’ while in ‘ E ’ the dome is set in position above its lower dome ( i.e. pendentives ) . |
| 15 | Even longer delays can occur when the printer is set to work . |
| 16 | Thus , Bukharin argued , if total unproductive consumption is greater than the total surplus product/value regression is set in motion . |
| 17 | Once the text is set in metal , corrections mean retyping a whole line . |
| 18 | Right : Pathway round a lawn is set into grass , low enough to allow a mower to pass over it |
| 19 | Marked A to E , A being the slowest ( recommended for hard metals ) , and E the highest ( for wood ) , the dial is set before cutting begins , so that speed will increase only up to that setting : range is 0 to 2400rpm . |
| 20 | NAS chief executive Laurie Caple said : ‘ This expenditure is set against money raised in the private sector from sponsorship and our various income generation activities . ’ |
| 21 | The basic concept is that a target for a work element is set in man hours and at the end of each week the difference between the target hours , and actual hours worked is paid as a bonus to the operative . |
| 22 | General availability of the completed ES/MP release is set for mid-1993 . |
| 23 | The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery , or under primitive conditions . |
| 24 | You will discover that it is much easier to find the exact point of focus when the zoom is set to telephoto , partly due to the enlargement of the image and partly to the fact that the focus depth of field is much shallower at this end of the zoom . |
| 25 | His face is set like flint against the threats and swipes of guards and the rabble . |
| 26 | a style of type that shows capital letters used in the normal way while the body copy is set in capital letters which are of a slightly smaller size . |
| 27 | The opposition has proposed something similar , so the stage is set for compromise . |
| 28 | When the school does n't take complaint gathering seriously and parents are ill at ease in approaching the school then the stage is set for crisis . |
| 29 | BRITAIN 'S second biggest housebuilder George Wimpey today threw its weight behind hopes that the UK housing market is set for recovery . |
| 30 | In fact , if you always bear in mind that once a table is set for dining , lights lowered , candles lit , that table becomes an oasis , complete in itself , you can make a dining room wherever the table is . |