Example sentences of "be set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 2 | When it had been examined and test-flown by the manufacturer 's pilot prior to the revalidation of the microlight 's Permit to Fly both wingtip adjusters had been set at the neutral position with no apparent need for any change . |
| 3 | A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign . |
| 4 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 5 | A new world record has been set in the Central South region . |
| 6 | The first visible sign of his drive for progress has already been set in the nuclear field . |
| 7 | At this time the fastest anyone had yet covered the English mile distance had been set by the professional runner , William Richards , at 4 minutes 17¼ seconds in Manchester on 19 August 1865 . |
| 8 | The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence . |
| 9 | On every release , targets are set for the whole sales force by the sales manager or director , in consultation with the marketing division . |
| 10 | At low capacity , prices will frequently be high since they are set on the vertical part of the short-run marginal cost curves . |
| 11 | His sights are set on the British Supercup and British Championship in 1993 , riding an ex-Niall Mackenzie 250 Yamaha , which has been purchased by Charlie Smiley of Carrickfergus . |
| 12 | The interior is lit partly by the 16 windows in each dome which are set above the springing line , but this has been less effective since the thirteenth century when the outer cupolas were constructed . |
| 13 | With a monochrome viewfinder. use ‘ auto ’ or remember to check that you are set to the correct preset . |
| 14 | If all outputs are set top the minimum pulse width of 0.75mS , the frame rate will be 14.2mS ( 8 × 0.75mS + 8.2mS ) whilst if all outputs are set to the maximum pulse width of 2.25mS the frame rate will be 26.2mS ( 8 × 2.25mS + 8.2mS ) . |
| 15 | The Inner Kingdoms are set within the twilit ring of the Annulii , shielded from contact with the outer world by the mountains and buffer states of the Outer Kingdoms . |
| 16 | The Council water charges are set by the Regional Council each year in order to cover the costs of providing a water service to domestic consumers , in this regard separate accounts must be maintained by the Council in respect of water costs and income from the Council water charges . |
| 17 | The wages of farm workers are set by the Agricultural Wages Board ( for England and Wales ) . |
| 18 | Pop culture thus works through an amalgam of attitude , inspiration , intuition and detail ( for nobody is as obsessive as the true pop fan , whose obsession is rarely given the respect it deserves ) ; crucially , it works best not in public , where the terms of discourse are set by the dominant culture , but in private space . |
| 19 | Conversely , Dawson and Parkinson ( chapter 3 ) argue that in Liverpool the unaccountable work of Merseyside Development Corporation has to be set beside the ineffectual work of the putatively democratic local state . |
| 20 | For instrument approaches airfield QNH is to be used until approaching the Final Approach Fix or Final Approach Point , as appropriate , when QFE is to be set at the Initial Point and all flying in the visual circuit is to be conducted on QFE . |
| 21 | The traditional essay-type question can be set for the whole class and pupils can respond at their own level . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The rotary input gain control can be set to the optimum level so that the overload light flashes momentarily on for the loudest peaks of signal . |
| 24 | From this information the design limits for any manufactured item can be set to the economic optimum . |
| 25 | From this information the design limits for any manufactured item can be set to the economic optimum . |
| 26 | On the YC-6 , the yarn brake and the colour changer arm must both be set to the double bed position . |
| 27 | In this way , legislative bounds can be set to the common law principle , as Mr. Glick insists that they should . |
| 28 | Financial behaviour data , such as that from Infolink 's consumer credit databases , may then be set alongside the geodemographic data to identify household financial profiles . |
| 29 | However objectors might have viewed the political reality , it seemed clear that the Inspector saw these bodies as a valuable source of ‘ independent ’ advice to be set alongside the potential ‘ bias ’ of the CEGB . |
| 30 | The argument that ‘ conversion ’ to tuberculin positivity by BCG may hinder diagnosis of tuberculosis should surely be set against the laborious surveillance by periodic tuberculin testing and treatment with ( not entirely innocuous ) drugs if positivity should develop . |