Example sentences of "are set [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large stone blocks are set as stepping stones for pedestrians to cross without becoming muddied . |
| 2 | Targets and standards are set for development actions . |
| 3 | Parliamentary elections currently are set for March 1995 and presidential voting for June 1996 . |
| 4 | Standards are set for ventilation , heating , lighting , hygiene , safety features of tools and equipment , fire precautions , first aid facilities and provision is made for occupational health services . |
| 5 | Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , California has decided that IBM Corp 's Cadam Inc computer-aided design software base is ripe for plundering , and is developing two Cadam-emulation products , Aemulus and Aemulus(mf) , which are now in alpha test : the products , which offer a Cadam-like user interface and bi-directional compatibility with Cadam files , are also compatible with AutoCAD Release 12 ; Aemulus is an AutoCAD Development System application with a Cadam-like graphics interface and command set and enables customers to edit existing Cadam models or create new Cadam-compatible models on the desktop ; Aemulus(mf) is a mainframe-resident program that enables customers to quickly and completely convert Cadam two-dimensional Interactive Drawing files to DXF files or vice versa ; both are set for shipment in May 1993 but pricing has not yet been decided ; the company also says that it is expanding its product line beyond the drafting portion of the design spectrum it has traditionally occupied to cover the entire spectrum from conceptualisation to manufacturing , and that as a first step its three top-selling drafting and design packages , AutoCAD , Generic CADD and AutoSketch , have been brought together under one organisational umbrella , and are being precisely defined and clarified in terms of their relationship to each other ; development is under way to enable the three products to work together and share files across networks . |
| 6 | ‘ I can see tremendous benefits but hope that realistic targets are set for industry to comply . ’ |
| 7 | They will have to assimilate from the syllabus guidelines and from class teachers what objectives are set for children in each of the assessment modes-talking , reading and writing . |
| 8 | If the regression coefficients for estimating the population ‘ at risk ’ of requiring Personal Social Services are set at plus or minus two standard errors , this estimated expenditure need might range from £167 to £3 56 per child aged 5–17 . |
| 9 | Budget outlays are set at $174.4 billion , a 5% cut in real terms from 1993 — the seventh consecutive real reduction . |
| 10 | type which has vertical stems as distinct from italics or oblique which are set at angles . |
| 11 | Security and cell directory royalties will be $400 to OSF and $80 to USL and global directory are set at $250 and $50 respectively . |
| 12 | As may be seen in Fig. 3.1 the coordinates of the wire element are x' , y' , z' , whereas the coordinates of the point where we wish to determine the magnetic field are set of coordinates . |
| 13 | We sit on wooden boxes round the heavy tables with their curling iron legs , and because the lollies are set on sticks splintered from firewood you sometimes get a skelf in your mouth as you suck , intent on the Lone Ranger . |
| 14 | What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel : ‘ The fathers eat sour grapes , and the children 's teeth are set on edge ’ ? |
| 15 | The visiting of the iniquity of their fathers on to succeeding generations in the Third Commandment , the banning of ‘ he that hath a flat nose ’ , and the writing ‘ the fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children 's teeth are set on edge ’ are suggestive of the stigmata of congenital syphilis . |
| 16 | ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’ |
| 17 | When the spreading cotton manufacture extended similar opportunities , Arthur Young wrote of Manchester : " large families in this place are no incumbrance ; all are set to work " . |
| 18 | If both printer and application are set to CR only , this would cause your problem . |
| 19 | In psychology , the process where limits are set to generalisations , or summing up . |
| 20 | When there is time , the robot 's joints are switched on again , and for each entry ( I' , J' ) in R2 , the robot 's arm angles are set to J' . |
| 21 | Static welfare losses that arise from departures from competition in output markets are set against longer-run , dynamic gains which may arise from an increase in the supply of innovations that come about in less than perfectly competitive markets . |
| 22 | Colour for summer ‘ 93 is defined by the trend towards naturals — skin tones , neutrals and pale legwear are set against outerwear 's neutral classics . |
| 23 | Fathers are set against children and children against parents . |
| 24 | But it can also be a foreign world to us , and to those whose faces are set against God it is a closed world . |
| 25 | Either keep an astute cat , or make sure traps are set inside drainpipes where pets and birds ca n't get at them . |
| 26 | In the centre of all this activity are our tents and caravans which are set among shrubs and trees and provide accommodation for 2–4 persons . |
| 27 | Says Kieslowski : ‘ The stories are set in Warsaw , the pictures made in Poland , but the situations described are universal . |
| 28 | With the partial exception of Didon and Les femmes , which dwell on the protagonist 's unstable emotions in the manner of a theatrical soliloquy , it is dramatic episodes rather than specific movements that are set in relief through well timed key changes , as in Campra 's stage action scenes . |
| 29 | ‘ But his speech showed clearly the trap , and on the whole when traps are set in sight of the victim they do n't usually catch it . ’ |
| 30 | This is the reason that most drugs movies — especially those like Postcards From The Edge and Wired , which are set in Hollywood — denounce their source material so hysterically . |