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

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1 The numbering limits on this were set at 32767 which might , at first glance seem an impressive number .
2 This is set on one side to start again after emptying out your reward , the valuable compost .
3 This was set at 1.2 per cent of the GNP of the EC by 1992 , with intermediate ceilings prior to 1992 .
4 when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list .
5 The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people .
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