Example sentences of "would [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd be set for life if something like that happened . |
| 2 | Given that the land had been distributed to the peasants , Bukharin suggested that without the intervention of the state , that is , the proletarian state , the scene would be set for a ‘ new American-style cycle ’ , by which he meant the development of capitalist commodity production in agriculture with a process of centralisation taking place and the development of agri-factories . |
| 3 | A particular timescale would be set for the implementation of the appropriate strategies . |
| 4 | Time limits would be set for appeals , with a right to representation and eligibility for legal aid to get advise in bringing a case . |
| 5 | Frankie would be set to work at the big sink , and before he washed each plate and roasting-pan he would scrape it clean with his fingers and eat every last scrap of chicken , sage and onion stuffing , corned beef , sliced Spam and cheese . |
| 6 | Some master , equally lonely , would be set to giving him extra essays and physical training to keep him occupied . |
| 7 | The Paris auction market received a welcome fillip in the first week of April with the announcement that buyer 's premium would be set at a flat rate of 9% . |
| 8 | In April of the same year it was clear from the interim report of the committee that recommendations would be proposed whereby building development would be controlled throughout the country and that compensation for the public acquisition of land would be set at the standard of 31 March 1939 . |
| 9 | For example , an offer for law ( BCC ) and planning ( DDD ) would be set at CCD . |
| 10 | By the end of the year , Mrs Thatcher was in the chair of a new cabinet committee , Misc. 141 , which had been given the task of preparing for the fast-approaching day when limits would be set on greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 11 | I want to take you in my arms and kiss you and — ’ He looked to the side to where two people were approaching ; then dropping her hands , he said on a laugh , ‘ I 've only to be seen doing that in public , even holding your hands , and the place would be set on fire . |
| 12 | it was agreed that thirty one January would be set as a deadline for recruiting national account execs , pending a salary review |
| 13 | As the boundaries of the relevant area are straight lines it can be evaluated quite simply : and so the average torque can be found from : To allow for slight changes in the load torque , due to wear of the components during the system 's working life , the constant frequency clock would be set between 90 and 100 steps . |
| 14 | It was often tedious ; and for every senator disposed to find it fun , there was another whose face would be set in grim outrage . |
| 15 | The comic , left , said : ‘ If we did it , it would be set in World War Two . |
| 16 | He hoped that the tightly packed deuterium atoms would be set in motion , their nuclei bumping into one another and fusing . |
| 17 | The script file described how the movie would show the impact of a coercive group on ‘ an ordinary man ’ and would be set in what was interestingly referred to as ‘ a lower middle-class suburban neighbourhood of an industrial town ’ . |
| 18 | And that obviously creates the uplift in land values which finances the social structure that would be set in terms of the operational criteria for the new settlement . |
| 19 | The financial framework and policy objectives would be set by a Labour government . |
| 20 | To ensure that estates are motivated to take part , culling targets would be set by local deer management trusts ( LDMTs ) , developed from existing voluntary deer management groups and based around discrete deer populations . |
| 21 | With the help of his mother and sister , he agreed to continue this work at home which would be set by the school and assessment centre jointly . |
| 22 | Its tone would be set by those who were most distrustful of his leadership . |
| 23 | One of the more alarming aspects of these Bank Holiday disturbances was that they highlighted fierce traditions of resistance to the police in working-class neighbourhoods , so that not uncommonly policemen attempting to make street arrests would be set upon by large crowds — sometimes numbering two or three hundred people — shouting ‘ Rescue ! |
| 24 | Fisheries Minister Jan Henry Olsen said a quota would be set after the meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) in Kyoto in May but that he expected it to be in the range of a " few hundred " minke whales a year . |