Example sentences of "for set " in BNC.
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| 1 | The knob at the rear is for setting the pointer to any desired position for calibration . |
| 2 | A self-proclaimed poineer and the ‘ first man to go the whole hog ’ with his business , the Wild Boar Company , he was all for setting the strictest standards of breeds , offering a product aimed at the ‘ luxury end ’ of the market . |
| 3 | The documents appear to have been working papers that were used for setting price caps for the authorities . |
| 4 | There is a case for going in ; there is a case for staying out ; there is even a case for setting clear , robust conditions for when to go in . |
| 5 | I have the authority for setting up jobs , making initial contacts , specifying work to be done and negotiating contracts with individual clients . |
| 6 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 7 | ( Nowadays , the use of celestial bodies for setting clocks is not widespread — a measure of how ‘ unnatural ’ our life-style has become . ) |
| 8 | Lotus PC software , while Thapar is planning a tie-up with Hitachi of Japan for setting up software units with 100 per cent buy-back arrangements . |
| 9 | While accelerating moves towards faster internal integration , the Strasbourg summit also set an equally tight timetable for setting up a common ‘ European economic area ’ by the end of next year with the six countries of the European Free Trade Association . |
| 10 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 11 | The Lithuanian government has already leased one 10-year-old Boeing 737 from GPA , and many western airlines are exploring the opportunities for setting up joint ventures using Western aircraft . |
| 12 | We are grateful to Ken Byron for setting up a much needed journal in Drama and Dance Education . |
| 13 | Some suggestions were instantly taken up , as in 1925 , when five members asked for shorter carries and the committee agreed to reducing them to 120 yards , and also a later suggestion for setting aside some ground for lessons and practice . |
| 14 | It is as if Pynchon uses his earlier narrative as a pretext for setting up comic or futuristic episodes and then actually begins to deconstruct his text towards the end by separating out frozen images for comment . |
| 15 | I thank you for setting me right , my dear . ’ |
| 16 | This problem overlapped with that of the Public Schools generally , and he had already in the summer secured Cabinet approval for setting up a Public Schools Commission . |
| 17 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 18 | In this spirit , and doubtless moved by these very arguments , early in 1987 Kenneth Baker set up his committee under the chairmanship of G. R. Higginson , the Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University , to recommend principles that should govern A level syllabuses and their assessment ‘ in the light of the Government 's commitment to retain GCE Advanced level examinations as an essential means for setting standards of excellence , and with the aim of maintaining or improving the present character and rigorous standards of these examinations ’ . |
| 19 | If you are responsible for setting up a discussion : |
| 20 | Despite intense poetical activity by both men , money to finance Pantisocracy had simply not been found , and almost Southey 's first words on discovering Coleridge were to announce that he had abandoned immediate hopes of emigration in favour of a new scheme for setting up a trial community on a farm in Wales . |
| 21 | The most deleterious situations were those where general managers abdicated their responsibility for setting strategic direction to staff planners … . |
| 22 | FORMAT DIVISION MARGINS shows options for setting out a printed page |
| 23 | Conversely , where there is potential for electronic improvement to a particular process or activity , the analysis could provide the basis for identifying the relationships necessary for setting up a suitable system . |
| 24 | Since it was of relatively minor importance to whom the words for setting up a trust were addressed , it was possible to conceive of the trust as inhering in certain property in the estate , and therefore of the recipient of that property as automatically in the position of trustee for the intended beneficiary . |
| 25 | This area is seen as only one of a number of possible future points of development , for plans are being discussed for setting up a linked structure of subject panels from national down to district and location level to give all teachers the opportunity to comment on materials and raise suggestions for new approaches . |
| 26 | The case became the standard for setting the difference between libel and slander . |
| 27 | There were clear political reasons for setting up the LDDC and other Urban Development Corporations , and for deciding the way in which they conduct their affairs . |
| 28 | plans for a new business , including your reasons for setting it up , the relevant experience of those involved ; |
| 29 | The Drive channel is governed by the usual Gain and Volume pots , for selecting the amount of overdrive in the sound , and for setting the level between that and the Normal channel 's output . |
| 30 | The remaining six controls are for setting parameter values , effect variations or turning the effect on/off , depending on which mode the A2 is set to . |