Example sentences of "be set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that the boundary between mastery and non-mastery might be set differently for different educational purposes , but it is much more likely that different purposes will prescribe whether a boundary needs to be set at all . |
| 2 | Binding guarantees will be set locally for in-patient waiting times , starting with the operations where waiting causes most distress . |
| 3 | To capture the ways in which the play points forward , it obviously needs to be set firmly in its period . |
| 4 | However , we have also stressed that any decline in reading standards in the inner city must be set firmly within the context of the political and economic circumstances which lead to poverty and social dislocation . |
| 5 | Second , the way heads responded to PNP , and with varying degrees of success exploited its opportunities and resources for the children 's benefit , must be set firmly against this background . |
| 6 | She spun the tape on and a polite Scottish voice informed her that her services were required by an independent television company about to start work on a drama based on the oil business , to be set largely around Aberdeen . |
| 7 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 8 | Political leaders , where they can be set apart from the party , may help to shape a party 's image . |
| 9 | Although the poem contains such pessimistic overtones and pathetic acceptance of fate there is hope to be found in the last two lines which seem to be set apart from the rest . |
| 10 | Just as with word processing type can be set flush with the left-hand margin , centred or justified . |
| 11 | Most books will soon be set completely by computer , and thus the publisher will have a machine-readable version available for analysis . |
| 12 | The Threshold level must be set carefully for the unit to be fully effective , and beware , because getting this absolutely right takes a little time . |
| 13 | A windfall for the hard-pressed Scots whisky industry may come in the form of lower excise duty rises which for most other products could be set well above inflation . |
| 14 | Such an edge should be set just below the level of the turf so that a machine can run smoothly over the top — simply neaten up once a year with a half moon iron or spade and save that chore of hand edging . |
| 15 | Limits may be set also by deficiencies of nitrogen and other key minerals in the soils . |
| 16 | This appears not to have happened in the case of Samuel Pepys 's uncle ; writing in his diary for 6 July 1661 , he related the incident of ‘ My uncle 's corpse in a coffin standing upon joint stools in the chimney in the hall ; but it began to smell so I caused it to be set forth in the yard all night , and watched by my aunt . ’ |
| 17 | Any provision made against the minority debit balance should be set directly against the minority interest amount in the p&l account and in the balance sheet . |
| 18 | To avoid having to remember the current state of the display , the attributes may be set explicitly by prefixing the control byte by a parameter count of 50 ( the character " 2 " ) and 43 ( " + " ) for " on " a 45 ( " - " ) for " off " . |
| 19 | Second is a single rate poundage which will be set nationally by the government rather than local councils . |
| 20 | The NFFO will be set annually by the Department of Energy ; it aims to guarantee that new electricity distribution companies in England and Wales use a certain amount of renewable souces to generate power . |
| 21 | The introduction of new fields into the system is problematic as offer ratios and the grades normally required have to be set initially without the guidance of direct previous experience . |
| 22 | The Minister of Constitutional Development , Gerrit van N. Viljoen , in the budget debate in Parliament on May 9-11 , 1990 , outlined a plan for a future constitutional dispensation which , according to the state-owned media , showed that " the government is striving to cater for minorities " [ usually understood in a South African context to mean principally white people , but also Asians and " coloureds " ] and " assures people that the values and aspirations of minorities will not be set aside through majority rule " . |
| 23 | Seventy-five per cent of the receipts from council-house sales , and half of the receipts from other sales , must be set aside as provision to meet credit liabilities ( Local Government and Housing Act 1989 : Clause 59 ) , and only the remainder is available for further capital expenditure . |
| 24 | Subsequently he disobeys God disastrously , and has to be set aside as king in favour of David . |
| 25 | Capricorn applied for the service of the writ to be set aside on the ground that the London address did not consitute a place of business in Great Britain or that if service was good , Capricorn sought a stay on the ground of lis alibi pendens in Ohio . |
| 26 | When the appellant received notice of the order , he applied for the order to be set aside on the grounds that he had no notice of the proceedings and had nothing to do with it . |
| 27 | The defendants successfully applied to the English court for this service to be set aside on the grounds that personal service by the agent of a foreign litigant without the approval of the Swiss authorities was a criminal offence under the Swiss Penal Code and could not be regarded as valid service , as no English court could authorise service which was contrary to the internal law of the country in which service was to be effected . |
| 28 | The board applied for that order to be set aside on the ground that there was no jurisdiction to make it . |
| 29 | In this case the court was concerned with the question whether the transactions between the bank and the wife should be set aside on the ground of undue influence exerted over the wife by the husband . |
| 30 | The debtor obtained an order from the county court that the statutory demand and bankruptcy petition be set aside on the ground that the service of the statutory demand had contravened the provision in section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 that ‘ no action shall be brought ’ to recover any costs due to a solicitor within one month of the bill having been delivered . |