Example sentences of "be set [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price can be set below the competitors to attract foreign buyers who have to pay in hard currency . |
| 2 | As confidence grew , partly as a result of the student impression studies , so techniques were employed which permitted cross-institutional comparison , which enabled graduate employer samples to participate in evaluation , and which allowed the appraisal of course realities such as grading patterns and resources to be set alongside the studies of course perceptions . |
| 3 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 4 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 5 | To grasp their real magnitude these figures need to be set against the incomes of other social groups . |
| 6 | These benefits must be set against the costs , measured in both financial and medical terms , so that a judgment can be made on whether the benefits justify the cost . |
| 7 | They will have to learn how to present new lexis , structure and discourse forms appropriate to the tasks to be set in the assessments ; to construct cue cards for the practice of the language functions ; to manage the moves from class teacher to pair work organiser and to individual helper ; and to carry out the assessments in a rigorous manner . |