Example sentences of "this [be] set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The numbering limits on this were set at 32767 which might , at first glance seem an impressive number .
2 This is set at a uniform tax rate throughout the country , pooled and reallocated — so much per adult , with an adjustment for poorer areas .
3 This is set on one side to start again after emptying out your reward , the valuable compost .
4 This is set on a sliding scale , depending on whether the school is primary or secondary , day or boarding .
5 There is a major concern with the specifics of ministerial formation , but this is set within the department 's broader interests and is treated in a soundly academic fashion as in the other forms of professional preparation offered in the University .
6 If using QFE , make certain that this is set before starting the final turn .
7 And the disingenuous becomes invidious when this is set against an attempt to locate blame for economic dislocation on its victims , cast inner city residents as ‘ a poor social mix ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p19 ) , and offer instead a radical recasting of multi-national capital as the means of saving the inner cities .
8 This is set in the hillside below the actual Dentelles — a line of rock blades which run like a dragon 's spine along the top of the hill above the wine village of Gigondas , near Carpentras .
9 All this is set in the context of conflict .
10 This is set in the context of the changing international structure of the industries .
11 This is set in Ulster and sets out to depict ordinary people getting on with their lives .
12 I understand that an essential site survey has not yet been undertaken , and would ask that this be set in hand immediately .
13 After discussion this was set at £2 a head for the weekend .
14 This was set at 1.2 per cent of the GNP of the EC by 1992 , with intermediate ceilings prior to 1992 .
15 when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list .
16 Middlesbrough Bears 41 Slangerup 47 THIS was set to be one of the most exciting challenges for the opening of a new season at Middlesbrough 's Cleveland Park last night , but wet and miserable conditions turned it into something of a farce .
17 This was set as the minimum for contributions to the first loan , in 1522 , men of less substance being let on until , perhaps , the yield had proved disappointing .
18 All this was set in just about one acre .
19 This was set against the teaching and learning which the Inspectorate had observed in their school sample .
20 This was set against a background of rocks , sand , barbed wire and empty ammunition boxes , with large amounts of fake snow sprayed over everything .
21 The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people .
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