Example sentences of "set [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To set against this trend , however , there was much evidence to support the view that the public continued to look to government for assistance . |
| 2 | The series of papers which form the basic data set for this research ( the Rolfe papers , and Will 1985 ) , contained lists of theses arranged in a classified order . |
| 3 | According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted . |
| 4 | Set against this picture and parallel to the theory that accompanies and supports it is the idea of the possibility of order as a creation of social instruments ordained for that very task , namely teachers , police , social workers , and perhaps , in the last resort , parents . |
| 5 | Set within this context , poverty is a daily struggle to meet health needs without jeopardising financial survival . |
| 6 | At 2pm that day , in the Vauxhall district of Birmingham , the scene was set for this drama . |
| 7 | This chapter will , therefore , examine the ways in which the early Christians were conscious of the Spirit 's presence in their community ; the next four chapters will glance at some of our contemporary problems concerning the Spirit in the Church , when set against this back ground . |
| 8 | Inevitably , however , pain will sometimes need to be inflicted , and in the absence of anaesthetic , which must be set against this point . |
| 9 | Within fifty yards of him , set along this line , stood his cottage , next door to The Two Pheasants . |
| 10 | Indeed , it could be argued that it is only problems which are set within this framework that are viewed by the legal community as being properly legal . |
| 11 | The search for an appropriate response to the problems of conflicts abuse in financial conglomerates , central to which is the increased need to protect investors , must be set within this context . |
| 12 | Both are written by young American women writers and are set in this century . |
| 13 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 14 | The design task set in this test has some non-mathematical features and it was used in an exercise with some groups of teachers to obtain their views on what should be marked . |
| 15 | In Couperin 's Magnificat for two voices , it is ‘ Et misericordia ’ that is set in this notation , and a slow tempo would be well in accord with the usual Baroque Affekt for this passage . |
| 16 | The statute of Carlisle is best set in this context . |
| 17 | Further — and this was where Kant moved decidedly beyond Hume and everyone else before him — even the most fundamental categories which we use to supply the framework of our knowledge of the world , those of space and time , must be set in this light . |
| 18 | Animal traps dangerous to you are set in this area . |
| 19 | The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal . |
| 20 | By adopting this methodical approach you should avoid the pitfalls and successfully answer any questions set on this subject . |
| 21 | ( a ) Aldeburgh Birthplace of the 18th-century poet George Crabbe and the home of Benjamin Britten , whose opera Peter Grimes , set on this coast , was based on a character in Crabbe 's poem The Borough . |
| 22 | This tale of smugglers , murder and romance was set on this piece of coast and many of the places and people from the book have been commemorated in the names of streets and new houses built in the area . |
| 23 | Additionally , DCs which are generated as a result of using option 1.1.1 or option 1.1.3 are initially set to this state . |
| 24 | It was known from collocation studies ( see Chapter 4 ) that the information from co-occurrence relations is optimised at a distance of four words , so the window size was provisionally set at this distance . |
| 25 | The next most significant bit ( bit 1 ) is also set at this stage and these two bits of the accumulator are then written to the PIA lines used as the direction and clock start/stop signals . |
| 26 | er yes , so we 've got the European er currency units and all agricultural prices are set by this unit and in fact the green pound er is used to translate this er E C U into pound sterling . |
| 27 | She may be difficult to cover and may be an unthrifty mare , hard to keep in good condition — it is often severe weight loss , past or present , that sets off this kind of conformation . |
| 28 | An analysis by Reddaway ( 1977 ) of the period 1961–71 showed that this view was wide of the mark ; only 3 per cent of the purchase of motor cars and television sets in this period was attributable to population increase . |
| 29 | Down in dumps A GROUP of young people from Northern Ireland are setting off this week on a trip to one of the world 's poorest regions . |