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

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1 To keep within this ceiling it was agreed that the rate of growth of agricultural expenditure should be set at 74 per cent of the rate of growth of Community GNP .
2 The minimum length of such a re-entry programme should be set at 144 hours throughout the UK .
3 To sum up , prices should be set at short-run marginal cost .
4 The trimpot used to set the first stage gain , should be set at maximum resistance and the multi-turn zero offset trimpot to the centre of its range before this check .
5 Having first made sure that the master volume is well back , Decimax recommend that the ‘ acoustic correction ’ equaliser should be set for flat response while the desired sounds are assembled .
6 This premise is in direct opposition to the view , currently fashionable , that defined and prescribed academic targets should be set for each stage of a child 's progress through school .
7 In any learning task , the proportion of cells in each chip which should be set to 1 is likely to be independent of the number of cells in the chip ; so the number of learning cycles will be roughly proportional to the size of a chip .
8 If a rudder rate switch is available , this should be set to high rate to encourage the model to turn as rapidly as possible .
9 The keyboard setting should be set to British if you want to use the pound ( ) sign .
10 Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’
11 What ‘ unfudgeability ’ means is that accounting standards should be set in such a way that accounts can not be fudged ; Mr Damant claims that this is ‘ a new accounting principle ’ .
12 The target date should be set against these events and progress monitored at each stage .
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