Example sentences of "set [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If there are no distortions elsewhere in the economy , nationalized industries should set prices at social marginal cost . |
| 32 | The water industry , privatised in 1989 , faces a price review by watchdog Ofwat which will set charges from 1995 until the year 2000 . |
| 33 | Athelstan stared at the closed , set faces of both knights . |
| 34 | The main carriage is set to slip and the ribber to knit ( both set levers on 1 ) . |
| 35 | The ribbers on the SRP50 , the double knit and Chunky gauge are set to knit in both directions ( set levers on 1 , pick knob on — ) . |
| 36 | For those just coming out onto the scene , it 's an established fact that many can come to terms with , but for those who have set patterns of sexual behaviour or who 've put themselves at risk in the past , it 's a great problem . |
| 37 | " But for me I do n't reckon you 'd ever have set eyes on each other . " |
| 38 | Something had sparked into life when they had first set eyes on each other , though , and even Julius 's self-control had melted away as the spark had ignited a flame , and then a fire . |
| 39 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 40 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 41 | As such , it was able to produce ‘ a more wonderful miracle than the greatest achievement of science ’ , for ‘ it enables millions who have never set eyes on one another to act together in peaceful and mutual co-operation and makes them glad and proud to do so ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 42 | have set countries on any sort of breakthrough path . |
| 43 | The Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) Education and Enterprise Initiative has set targets for ten per cent of teachers each year to be seconded to industry and for all school leavers to spend at least two weeks on Work Experience . |
| 44 | The four groups have joined forces to form the Ulster Karate Council , and have set dates for unofficial provincial championships in October . |
| 45 | Statutory developments as well have set limits to permissible directorial inactivity . |
| 46 | The NCGA , supported by the Government Finance Officers ' Association , was concerned with state and local government ; the Council of State Governments was concerned with state government ; the General Accounting Office of the Federal Government has set standards for federal departments and agencies . |
| 47 | Election ‘ 92 : Ashdown sets sights on Tory Achilles ’ heel |
| 48 | But in the latter year he also published Neue teutsche [ sic ] Gesang nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten in which the weight of German words naturally affects the music ; when he sets translations of Italian texts he has also composed , the difference is startling : |
| 49 | Badger baiting is illegal ; yet despite tougher laws to protect badger sets scenes like this are not uncommon . |
| 50 | The General Accounting Office continues to cover the Federal Government ; the FASB sets standards for non-governmental , non-profit organizations ; and the GASB deals with state and local government and governmental non-profit organizations . |
| 51 | The authoritative parent affirms the child 's present qualities , but also sets standards for future conduct . |
| 52 | The Plan worked by setting targets for certain key sectors of the economy ( such as steel , electricity and cement ) rather than by close state direction , it tended to foster the return to industrial predominance of capitalist businessmen , and it relied on loans from abroad , particularly from America . |
| 53 | Or determining standards and then setting targets for all of your staff . |
| 54 | The latest draft of the European Commission 's plan for telecommunications seeks deregulation of cross-border services within the Community from January 1996 and of all services , domestic and international , by the start of 1998 , Reuter reports from Brussels , and phone companies expect it to press for deregulation of phone service despite the industry 's reservations — ‘ It 's far too ambitious — we 're not opposed to deregulation but this is too fast , ’ Charlotte Pins , a director of corporate communications at Belgium 's Belgacom said ; France Telecom said it backed ‘ setting sights on 1998 or 2000 ’ as a deadline for freeing the phone service , but Community-wide rules on access to national networks , costs , tariffs and public service duties would have to be agreed shortly . |
| 55 | Thulani Davis describes policemen setting dogs on black women and children campaigning for the right to buy a cup of coffee at the local Woolworths , and educated black men being asked to abandon French courses at university . |
| 56 | Just loading the committee with responsibility for everything inevitably means setting priorities with some subjects receiving less attention than others . |
| 57 | It is then only of use in setting problems for next time . |
| 58 | The foreshore at low tide was indeterminate territory , setting problems of similar complexity to those posed by property rights in the seashore below high water mark . |
| 59 | This , for Nelson , is the soul of Berlioz 's art , the musical equivalent of jeweller setting gemstones in precious metal , not merely to hold them in place , but to show them off to their greatest advantage . |
| 60 | Setting prices on average equal to marginal cost can be done in more than one way , and some will be socially superior to others . |