Example sentences of "be set on the " in BNC.

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1 Mr. Pegg believes that his tariff may have been set on the basis that the attack was premeditated , and thus that the tariff period should be reduced .
2 No formal time limit appeared to have been set on the US military presence , although Bush was reported on Dec. 4 as saying that he wanted the troops out by Jan. 20 , 1993 , when he was due to leave office .
3 This indicates whether automatic DC assessment has been set on the module or not .
4 This indicates whether automatic DC assessment has been set on the module or not .
5 When the experience itself arrives , the hazards will be attenuated because they have been made familiar by being anticipated , and the individuals will already have been set on the path of healthy coping responses .
6 Such plans will henceforth be subject to approval from CCMLR ; , A limit of 1.5 million tonnes has been set on the amount of krill that can be caught .
7 I hate to see ‘ Guernica ’ in a museum whose sights are set on the future , having left once and for all its mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen , to prove to the world what it is : an extraordinary composition suffocated by an excess of sentimentality , distorted by the deranged howls of the media .
8 At low capacity , prices will frequently be high since they are set on the vertical part of the short-run marginal cost curves .
9 His sights are set on the British Supercup and British Championship in 1993 , riding an ex-Niall Mackenzie 250 Yamaha , which has been purchased by Charlie Smiley of Carrickfergus .
10 It was the custom when a foreign invader stepped on French soil for the relics of Denis and his companions to be set on the altar , from which they personally conducted the defence of the realm .
11 Although the numbers will not apparently be limited at the briefings , a notional limit may be set on the number of climbers admitted to the range on any one occasion .
12 While the local residents might tolerate the noise and disruption from an occasional late night party , some limitation needs to be set on the number of such functions that can take place .
13 Hartlepool then comprised 6,000 people , no longer a simple fishing village since dock facilities had recently brought it into the coal-export and timber-import trades ; but Jackson 's sights were set on the adjacent hamlet of Stranton , with a population of 350 .
14 For the first time limits are being set on the number of hours which may be worked continuously .
15 Inadequate limits being set on the child 's behaviour , possible reinforcement of the aggression and modelling of aggression , and poor control of emotional reactions were all part of the learning history of these abusing children .
16 St Gilgen is set on the north west shore of the Wolfgangsee .
17 San Babila is set on the ruins of a fourth-century church , and that itself was built on the foundations of a pagan temple to the sun .
18 The cottage is set on the highest ridge of the Chiltern Hills and is surrounded by the most glorious countryside .
19 This is called the fill light , and it is set on the other side of the camera to reduce the depth of the shadows and to soften the modelling of the subject .
20 Because the front bed is now the main bed , the main tension is set on the front carriage .
21 Instead of coding the instruction length into the operation code , the word mark bit is set on the left-hand character of each instruction ( which contains the operation code ) .
22 Although the holding of outside appointments such as consultancies must be approved by faculty boards , no limit as such is set on the amount of money individuals may receive in this way .
23 It was set on the Potomac near Washington D C which , like Malmesbury in our civil war , changed hands several times during the American one .
24 The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’
25 A pail of cold water for washing was set on the floor so that performers had to bend over to use it .
26 Great store was set on the word ‘ training ’ .
27 The Villa Faalifu was set on the edge of Tala-Tala , and the sight of its opulent exterior almost left me gasping .
28 She had a leather suitcase which bore the remains of labels from pre-war Oriental hotels , a hatbox and an immense carpet bag which sighed out little puffs of dust every time it was set on the ground .
29 Haya de la Torre rejected the Comintern premise that Latin America was set on the same course of development as the European industrial nations .
30 No limit was set on the number or size of political parties , although each was prohibited from receiving more than 20 per cent of its budget in the form of grants or donations from abroad , and each was required to pay a registration fee of 1,000,000 francs CFA ( approximately US$3,900 ) .
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