Example sentences of "have [prep] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In any case , the importance of reciprocating has to be set beside other motivations which may underpin neighbourly acts as well as those in various forms of voluntary service . |
| 3 | Her deep involvement in the Falklands war and determination to retain British sovereignty over the islands has to be set against Britain 's negotiated return of Hong Kong to China with effect from 1997 and refusal to support or condemn the US invasion of Grenada ( part of the Commonwealth ) . |
| 4 | To return to Clash of the Titans on the problem of stop-motion for organic creatures , Harryhausen made what appears to be a considerable error of judgement , which has to be set against his success with Bubo the Owl . |
| 5 | Illicit drug use also has to be set against the context of prescribed drug-taking . |
| 6 | Yet , such criticism has to be set against a long-term investment programme — including direct job creation — worth four times the value of the federal payroll cuts . |
| 7 | This debate , however , has to be set in the context of our world , of nation-states and transnational corporations , technologies of power and social movements . |
| 8 | Prioritizing corporate crime has to be set in context . |
| 9 | However , all of this has to be set in the context that whilst still at school children were dependent for their own basic economic support upon the parental generation . |
| 10 | This commodity is always in short supply and it is hard fought for , especially after a general election when an order of priority has to be set in the legislative programme for fulfilling manifesto and other pledges . |
| 11 | However the aperture will probably have to be set at 5.6 and the shutter speed at |
| 12 | You will almost inevitably find , as you begin to think what sort of a story your police procedural might have , that if will have to be set in a city of some size . |
| 13 | Some limits had to be set to such claims ; and the selection of such limits , being essentially a matter of policy , was one which the legislature alone is equipped to make . |
| 14 | Looking at the total expenditure and the economic projections , ministers decided broadly and in a preliminary way what limits had to be set for spending in the next financial year ( then about nine months away ) . |
| 15 | There were also some difficulties in the supply of raw materials and a new target had to be set of 35 machine sets . |
| 16 | The simple search for a solution to deaf children 's educational needs had to be set in the broader context of the internal representation which BSL obviously offered to deaf people . |
| 17 | Well in these days your your sponges had to be set in the afternoon for the men coming in in the morning . |
| 18 | They came with fiddly switches and jumpers which had to be set by hand , arcane rituals of interrupt conflict avoidance , instructions written in terse technobabble . |
| 19 | For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes . |
| 20 | Some limits have to be set to any project . |
| 21 | For example , some programs will express that the Files and Buffers have to be set to a certain number for that particular program to operate correctly . |
| 22 | Moreover , these successes have to be set beside the less successful regeneration projects attempting to replicate the well known formula in cities such as Richmond ( Virginia ) , Toledo ( Ohio ) and Flint ( Michigan ) , all of which are faltering ( Guskind , 1989 ) . |
| 23 | Words and actions are full of subtle meanings which , to be fully explored and understood , have to be set in a much wider social context than that of their immediate occurrence . |
| 24 | And obviously some compromise must be struck as , for example , in the case of transport , where undoubtedly the need and desire for mobility and the distances involved in travel have to be set against the knowledge that roads pollute and fast cars kill . |
| 25 | The benefits in earnings terms from devaluation have to be set against the increase in these liabilities . |
| 26 | Even the railway system constructed under British rule can now be seen to have had an ambiguous role in relation to the Indian economy , for its benefits have to be set against its encouragement of export-based production and its role in opening up India to the inflow of manufactures , mainly from Britain ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 85-.6 ) . |
| 27 | But they have to be set against an overall decline in psychology degrees , including those taken by Afro-American and Hispanic students . |
| 28 | Moreover all of them have to be set against the background of the changing pressures on industry deriving from wider changes in the national and international economy . |
| 29 | The fact that future losses from punishment have to be set against current gains to defection implies that the rate at which a firm discounts the future will be important . |
| 30 | These casualty totals have to be set against the continuing growth in traffic which was reported in the first Plan . |