Example sentences of "set [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will be able to set off the tax credit against part of this liability . |
| 2 | To arrive at a salary that produces no income tax liability above the 25% rate , account has to be taken of the revised reliefs to set against the salary . |
| 3 | Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands . |
| 4 | The ½in plywood partition is cut to 33⅝ × 15½in to set into the box 2in from the manifold side and 8in from the piston side . |
| 5 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 6 | Joy Larkcom dallies with dill , passes on a trap tip , saves space by sowing salads and encourages runner beans to set in the kitchen garden this month |
| 7 | That was no small gain to set in the balance against the more obvious Erastianism of the new system . |
| 8 | Leave them to set in the fridge until ready for serving . |
| 9 | Leave to set in the fridge . |
| 10 | In Tessa Boffin 's five figure Knight 's Move in a cemetery there is a female , somewhat butch , knight-in-shining-armour to set alongside the Knave , the Angel ( very female ) Casanova and the Lady-in-Waiting . |
| 11 | Calendars , it seems , have almost become McGairy 's stock in trade for here as openers there are the original watercolours for Great Ayton and Saltburn Beach both selling at £160 to set alongside the sepia reproduction of Gunnerside and Staithes and Cowbar from the ICI Kennelix Oilfield Calendar , also of 1992 . |
| 12 | Why am I using his work to set alongside the interview extracts ? |
| 13 | For the best part of an hour Brazil produced a dainty dish to set before the Queen of the Netherlands , who may have felt that she had something better to do than sit out a sparring match in driving rain . |
| 14 | As he touched it Ramlal imagined the great gleaming motor-pump that they planned to set on the river bank to irrigate their fields . |
| 15 | The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’ |
| 16 | A grain of dust to set beside the mountain of several billion other deaths … |
| 17 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 18 | Optimization procedures would necessarily include an economic data model which would allow the cost to be projected into the full production situation , and compared to the various technical requirements set for the artefact . |
| 19 | There were many different sorts of trials set for the field-worker ( something noted in their field-work experience by Douglas 1972 and van Maanen 1982 ) , and the apologies other members of the section later gave her because of this policeman 's conduct is proof that these other trials , too , were successfully passed . |
| 20 | Therefore , standards set for the voice line will apply . |
| 21 | It is still using a line that provides voice telephony , so standards set for the voice line will apply . |
| 22 | Targets set for the compiler — including provision of a single parallel programming model for developing applications that can run on a variety of computers — were formulated by a coalition of industrial groups known as the High Performance Fortran Forum ( HPFF ) . |
| 23 | Basically speaking , the objectives set for the system have been achieved , but like all other systems the achievement of those objectives brought with it other problems . |
| 24 | ‘ All set for the get-in at the Variety tonight ? ’ |
| 25 | In part two : cutting edge … the powerboat racers set for the world championships . |
| 26 | The clinical teacher must be adaptable , as the objectives set for the student may need to be revised because of altered patient care . |
| 27 | At intervals of a few years , party congresses were held at which major changes of policy would be announced and new directions set for the future . |
| 28 | In all the exchanges of information during the design stage , frequent reference should be made to the objectives set for the project and the standards of the various components . |
| 29 | As yet , OmniPoint is still in its first release , with OmniPoint 2 set for the end of 1994 . |
| 30 | The company , it seems , has no stomach to fight religious wars any longer and has meetings scheduled with Unix System Labs this week , and the Open Software Foundation next , at which some kind of rapprochment is likely — though not an SVR4 kernel development — with product announcements set for the end of the month . |