Example sentences of "be set [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All groups have said we will review it in September and there is a general feeling that the charge should not have been set as high as it has been . ’ |
| 2 | The action on this example has been set quite low and when combined with the almost flat radius of the fingerboard and the slim neck , feels very rock'n'roll indeed . |
| 3 | ( Experience has shown that the number of such permitted pixels has been set too low , so that the test is probably too sensitive . ) |
| 4 | Similarly , if the float has been set too high , or it has been damaged , and no longer floats on the surface , water will also reach the overflow . |
| 5 | However , the quota limits , determined largely by commercial considerations , are now believed to have been set too high . |
| 6 | Too soon to write them off but the benchmark has been set very high already . |
| 7 | He found that 600 cartons had been set aside ready for him . |
| 8 | The lower value limit of goods which can be accepted for sale has been set fairly high — it is rumoured to be £10,000 for the Jewellery Department . |
| 9 | This species may also be under-represented in trap assemblages if the traps are set even short distances from thick vegetation , for it so rarely ventures into the open . |
| 10 | His position develops into scepticism proper ( i.e. the view that knowledge is impossible rather than merely rarer than one thinks ) when the standards are set so high that they can not be fulfilled . |
| 11 | The next step will be to set up collaborative research projects , under the Science and Engineering Research Council . |
| 12 | Otherwise , it should be set slightly off-centre so that there is a little more space to the edge of the frame in the direction in which the subject is looking ; this is called looking room . |
| 13 | It is important that a long-net should be set completely clear of sticks and brambles for if these become entangled within the net it can not function properly . |
| 14 | If these are to be set up prior to the implementation of LMS . |
| 15 | Creating new export possibilities by establishing an EPZ in which exporting-only enterprises can be set up free of most local laws has appealed to many developing countries from the 1970s onwards . |
| 16 | The output level usually needs to be set fairly high to drive distortion pedals etc. , so as to achieve the best signal-to-noise ratio . |
| 17 | But in such a variation on the theme , the influence of carbon dioxide has to be set very small , only one tenth of the strength most climate modellers currently accept , otherwise it would have overwhelmed the volcanic influence and caused the Earth to continue warming through the 1940s , 1950s and 1960s . |
| 18 | Against these negative memories may be set more frequent instances of closeness and admiration . |
| 19 | It was feared that the push-bike was a health hazard , for example causing ‘ bicycle face ’ , ‘ bicycle hand ’ and ‘ bicycle foot ’ , as well as the dreaded kyphosis bicyclistratum , or ‘ cyclist hump ’ , which resulted if the handle-bars were set too low . |
| 20 | In addition to the work being carried out in the UNEP HQ at Nairobi and in the GEMS/GRID site in Geneva , a series of GRID regional nodes are now being set up world-wide , each equipped with the same hardware and software and local subsets of the data . |
| 21 | If you can hear a humming noise in the pipework , the cause may be the pump speed being set too high . |
| 22 | Humming noises in pipework are often the result of the pump speed being set too high . |
| 23 | The means test is now being set so low that only people who are unemployed or have incomes near benefit levels will be able to obtain free legal help . |
| 24 | With increasing age , strength , and experience , most of them probably inherit a vacated range , take one over , or succeed in establishing a new community where younger females are setting up new ranges . |
| 25 | Even more radically , a number of trail-blazing organisations are setting up self-managed work groups , some of them leaderless . |
| 26 | Volkswagen has seized an investment opportunity by buying Skoda , and other Western car manufacturers are setting up Western-style dealerships . |
| 27 | POLICE are setting up special no-go areas to carnival revellers in a bid to protect frightened shopkeepers and residents — many o f them Asian — at a carnival next weekend . |
| 28 | Japanese producers of cars and many other products are in fact already behaving as if Fortress Europe is a reality — that is to say they are setting up full-scale manufacturing plants in Europe . |
| 29 | Even in Europe we are setting aside whole farms for conservation because we do n't need the food and it rationalises the subsidy system . |
| 30 | The DTI is to set up working groups to examine the scope for change in some of the most complex areas of company law . |