Example sentences of "to [be] set [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If purposeful , goal-directed activity is to take place , clear objectives need to be set for all the organisation 's activities .
2 You will need to ensure that system-wide logical names etc. , are properly set up on system reboot , and you will also require some symbols to be set for all your LIFESPAN users .
3 Due to the continuing grave security situation in Transcaucasia dates had still to be set for local soviet and republican Supreme Soviet elections in Azerbaijan .
4 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 .
5 Some limits have to be set to any project .
6 ‘ He might turn out to be set of sub-atomic particles bouncing around in a box in intelligent wave formations , ’ the Doctor fumed .
7 There were also some difficulties in the supply of raw materials and a new target had to be set of 35 machine sets .
8 The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal .
9 The detachable top ring needs to be set at such a pressure as to stay in for the cast but detach on the strike or more accurately the wind-down .
10 It is possible that the boundary between mastery and non-mastery might be set differently for different educational purposes , but it is much more likely that different purposes will prescribe whether a boundary needs to be set at all .
11 However the aperture will probably have to be set at 5.6 and the shutter speed at
12 New records are expected to be set at next year 's Olympics , where speed skiers will possibly exceed 150mph .
13 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 .
14 She was educated at Inverness Royal Academy and the Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington , Birmingham ( her thriller , Miss Pym Disposes , 1946 , was to be set in such a college ) .
15 Page makeup software may allow type to be set in 1 point increments and , perhaps , offer half-point line spacing .
16 The Hebrew scriptures imposed a law not to be binding on Gentiles , yet ( for all its moral imperfections ) not to be set in sharp antithesis to the new and more excellent way of love embodied in Jesus ' life and teaching .
17 Several were in groups of four , three standing slabs of stone over which a fourth lay as a roof , others lay tumbled in meaningless heaps , but still others seemed to be set in distinguishable lines and circles .
18 Standards for exposure to benzene are expected by the UK government to be set in 1993 : a level of 3 ppb is under consideration , although according to the World Health Organization there is " no known safe threshold dose " .
19 The area to be distributed was to be set by individual republics .
20 Both in Lambeth and Liverpool councillors were seeking to exploit a legal loophole — the absence of any statutory date for setting a rate-subsequently removed by the Local Government Act 1986 ( which requires a legal rate to be set by 1 April ) .
21 To be already known and understood gives an obvious head-start but since this is a particular sort of meeting , disciplined boundaries and clear objectives need to be set by both parties .
22 He emphasised the need for standards to be set by those at the top of organisations .
23 The intonation has been left unadjusted , though , and would need to be set before any serious playing could take place .
24 Some types require the ‘ static ’ tracking to be set before any running takes place .
25 The formal legal framework of central-local relations needs to be set against actual working relationships .
26 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 .
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