Example sentences of "set [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt and this is the bit I like , I , I some I , I used to set this at one point in the examination question and ask people to guess which American president said it I 'll read , I 'll read it to you measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation just , I 'll just get the essence of that , measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful if indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation ninety percent put Richard Nixon er no one put Abraham Lincoln er cos he was one of the good guys right or wrong I assume this ground I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the if to save James Buchanan is essentially the Pontius Pilate of American politics he says yes these are very acute problems er and very difficult er and I 'd like to help but I 'm sorry I ca n't and I really do have to go off and wash my hands now erm and , you know , you carry on and when you 've resolved it tell me what you want me to do and I 'll , |
| 2 | In order to set this for optimum sensitivity , a one ohm resistor should be connected across the probes and the control is adjusted until the l.e.d. just becomes illuminated . |
| 3 | Set that on easy now . |
| 4 | set this to right , we must stop |
| 5 | At the end of what has not been the easiest of years for trading conditions , I am pleased to say that we are just about on target and set fair for 1993 . |
| 6 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 7 | The ambiguities and divisions were clear during the euphemistically termed ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign ( jingshen wuran yundong ) of 1983 , when the party elders attempted to keep out the ‘ flies ’ they had set free in Chinese society . |
| 8 | By the Statute of 1861 the 22 million serfs owned by private landlords were set free from personal bondage . |
| 9 | Kennedy saw it in what he termed a policy of ‘ constructive repression ’ — which upon examination turns out to consist mainly in restoring the autonomy of the local official , who will be set free from bureaucratic control to go once again among the people , exercising ‘ sympathy ( in its true and not its debauched sense ) ’ , conducting his business in the vernacular , abandoning that ‘ cold aloofness ’ which is ‘ a vice in a ruler ’ , and seeing that the Crown 's Indian subjects are well-governed , harmless , and content . |
| 10 | Buildings on six farms were set ablaze during last night . |
| 11 | In each case , the beginning of the recession is set equal to 100 . |
| 12 | The index is set equal to 100 in 1980 . |
| 13 | Suppose that 1984 is chosen as the base year so that the price index is set equal to 100 in that year . |
| 14 | For the sake of clarity the ascending-node longitudes have all been set equal to each other , though within each group they are in any case much the same . |
| 15 | This is another way of stating the old rule that price should be set equal to marginal cost . |
| 16 | First , and optimally , price could be set equal to marginal costs . |
| 17 | Because altruism has disappeared , price will no longer be set equal to marginal cost ( however defined ) , as well as marginal cost being , possibly , inefficiently high . |
| 18 | The social cost or dead-weight burden of imperfect competition and monopoly power arises because marginal cost is set equal to marginal revenue , which is less than price and marginal consumer benefit . |
| 19 | The total supply of labour is shown by the distance on the horizontal axis ; if initially there is an efficient allocation of resources , then O r L o labour is in locality R and O s L o is in locality S. At this point the marginal products of labour are identical at point 1 in the two localities ( assuming that wages are set equal to marginal value product ) . |
| 20 | The resulting price and output combination for this period ( 1 ) is unc — price is set equal to short-run marginal cost SMC , and , it turns out in figure 4.1 , is less than long-run marginal cost . |
| 21 | The canisters , which may be from an officially charted dump midway between the Isle of Man and the Kintyre peninsula , floated to shore after apparently being set loose by recent storms . |
| 22 | But conditions were set fair for stable political and economic development . |
| 23 | Dwarf varieties should be set two to three inches deep . |
| 24 | By the fifth and sixth centuries they were set adjacent to larger churches , usually in the atrium facing the narthex . |
| 25 | In this case , the terminal is set wide for interactive viewing , and the page size is adjusted to the screen depth automatically . |
| 26 | In the middle of the bed , across its width , two substantial bolsters were set next to each other . |
| 27 | Similarly , right hemisphere patients were inferior at reproducing by touch alone the angle at which two movable rods were set relative to each other ( De Renzi , Faglioni and Scotti 1971 ) . |
| 28 | Moving from left to right this establishes the proportion of each student registered on a field which is likely to contribute to each subject area 's FTE in each stage ( b , c ) , sets this against current FTEs ( agreed in the 1 November census — after some major ‘ servicing ’ arrangements are allowed for ; for example a high proportion of Stage I accounting is taught by staff from the catering fields ) ( a ) , and adds the likely effect of recruitment targets and combinations for September 1988 ( ij ) , to produce an FTE prediction for the next year ( m ) . |
| 29 | We have , however , been somewhat haphazard in our plans in that we have not progressed all of the key issues in parallel and we are in the process of preparing detailed quarry plans for each location progressing estate issues , planning requirements , confirming geological and hydro geological aspects and setting all of this against market requirements . |
| 30 | Shown here is the Garden Lamp Set complete with 100-hr lamps , shades , extension rods and support stakes so they can be placed anywhere around the garden . |