Example sentences of "be [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 2 | ’ This part of the Health Secretary 's speech would have been better set to some wailing violins . |
| 3 | " Very well , my dear Peter , if you are so set on it , your wish is granted . |
| 4 | Thus evidence of glacial and interglacial periods , such as the type of flora and fauna present , can sometimes be used to assign a sequence to events , but , as with any relative dating technique , events are only set in order . |
| 5 | These standards are normally set with several objectives in mind : |
| 6 | Bedwetting baselines are best set over a period of at least 2 weeks because of the often intermittent nature of the problem . |
| 7 | Unflushed toilets are already setting off censor-operated devices in the Environment Ministry building and some of Singapore 's open air sewage centres . |
| 8 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 9 | Her love was always for her people , and the quotations from her historic speeches ( which are not set to music ) represent her carefully-chosen communications to them . |
| 10 | Younger workers are not set in their ways , employers believed . |
| 11 | Spending levels had been already set by democratically agreed initiatives ( such as Proposition 98 , which guaranteed that 40.3 per cent of state outlays be spent on schools ) , federal rules and court decisions . |
| 12 | It would mean a reduced workload for you so I honestly ca n't see why you 're so set against the idea . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're so set against the idea . ’ |
| 14 | " You 're still set on starting the secretarial school ? " |
| 15 | No time-scales for introduction are set , but Amdahl does not plan an integrated application environment until its two lines of long-awaited Sparc machines are out — they 're now set for year-end and early next year respectively . |
| 16 | No time-scales for introduction are set , but Amdahl does not plan an integrated application environment until its two lines of long-awaited Sparc machines are out — they 're now set for year-end and early next year respectively , see below . |
| 17 | ‘ And so you 're really set on pulverizing our bunch then ? |
| 18 | If you 're really set on it , you can scan a printed document via your scanner and send that too , using the software as a traditional fax machine . |
| 19 | You 're well set for it with Apremont , our famous white wine , our cheeses which include Reblochon , Beaufort and Tomme de Savoie , as well as our delicious Gâteau de Savoie . |
| 20 | The films are always set against glamorous backgrounds , with Matthews offering herself for audience identification as the outsider trying to enter a world that seeks to exclude her . |
| 21 | He took her arm and led her to the dining room , where the gleaming long rectangular table had been impeccably set for two . |
| 22 | Nets , 0.6–1.5 km ( 0.5–1 mile ) long and 7–10 metres ( 23–33 feet ) deep , are usually set at dusk and retrieved in the morning . |
| 23 | Nursing homes are still registered by the health authorities , so their ability to meet , and setting of standards that they 're required to meet , are still set by the health authority , registered by the health authority , and monitored by the health authority . |
| 24 | The 10/41 has one CPU , 1Mb cache and comes in June ; the 10/402 with dual 40MHz chips and the 10/512 , with dual 50MHz processors and 1Mb cache are both set for the fourth quarter ; a four-processor 45MHz model is planned for first quarter 1994 . |
| 25 | The 10/41 has one CPU , 1Mb cache and comes in June ; the 10/402 with dual 40MHz chips and the 10/512 , with dual 50MHz processors and 1Mb cache are both set for the fourth quarter ; a four-processor 45MHz model is planned for first quarter 1994 . |
| 26 | These poems are probably set in Somerset , but as most of Wordsworth 's social observation is directed towards the inhabitants of the Lake District , it would be as well to consider the economic history of that area in some detail before proceeding with Wordsworth 's reactions to the poverty and despair around him . |
| 27 | With both Maazel and Karajan the point is readily made , but their eyes are clearly set on the internal music argument . |
| 28 | He and Lewis are also set to work together again this year in California , in which he plays a serial killer . |
| 29 | It could be forgotten that these limitations are also set by environmental factors . |
| 30 | Demolition charges had also been carefully set on machinery in the fish meal and other factories ; these small charges of gun cotton being placed so that they destroyed equipment without the risk of causing needless casualties . |