Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they can do is set trend targets and reward or penalize according to the degree to which they are met . |
| 2 | The worst thing you can do is set these things and then cock it up because secretaries is people that pride themselves on being administratively perfect |
| 3 | ‘ I have my goals and all I can do is set out to emulate his feats . ’ |
| 4 | I mean what we can do is set the oven . |
| 5 | The detailed information which the Letter of Request must contain is set out in Article 3 . |
| 6 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 7 | Scores of research projects and endowed chairs would have been set up . |
| 8 | Your machine may already have been set up for the size of paper you are using . |
| 9 | A line containing a stone circle and a pre-Reformation church , for example , has sites separated by perhaps three millennium — so how could the ley ever have been set out deliberately ? |
| 10 | A Bible passage that I sometimes imagine might have been set in a school playground ( or assembly hall ) is found in Matthew 9:37–38 . |
| 11 | ‘ It might have been set up to look like that . |
| 12 | Any doubt about his attitude should have been set aside by the speech with which he accepted the leadership : |
| 13 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 14 | Mr. Pegg believes that his tariff may have been set on the basis that the attack was premeditated , and thus that the tariff period should be reduced . |
| 15 | What we may see as the first classical statue of a draped woman , corresponding to the naked male of the Kritian boy , is likewise from the Acropolis and could likewise have been set there just before or just after the interruptions of 480/79 . |
| 16 | Consider the following reading tasks that you may have been set , either by yourself or your teacher : |
| 17 | A credit for interest owed would not normally have been set up so the interest would be debited to the nominal account shown , which will then merely be transferred into the revenue account : |
| 18 | But Friends of the Earth said more money should have been set aside . |
| 19 | The command verb , LIFESPAN_PMR , should have been set up previously by the System Manager . |
| 20 | The Charge Code must already have been set up by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 21 | The Charge Code must already have been set up by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 22 | When the experience itself arrives , the hazards will be attenuated because they have been made familiar by being anticipated , and the individuals will already have been set on the path of healthy coping responses . |
| 23 | Batts may have been set up or mis quoted something which I 'm sure the press would never intentionally do especially against a team like us who they all love . |
| 24 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |
| 25 | In certain cases , the accountants prepare the accounts of the company or business on predetermined bases or principles , which may be quite complex , and which will have been set out in the sale and purchase agreement . |
| 26 | ‘ All groups have said we will review it in September and there is a general feeling that the charge should not have been set as high as it has been . ’ |
| 27 | After all if it was n't for the Maxwell fraud , the Good Committee would never have been set up . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , many market prices are distorted by indirect taxes and subsidies : indirect taxes have the effect of raising the prices of goods above what would otherwise have been set , while subsidies lower such prices . |
| 29 | In just over 2 weeks bills for the charge will start dropping on doormats across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and the Tory Euro MP for the Wantage area , Dr Caroline Jackson , thinks more time could have been set aside by officials at the Department of the Environment to look at alternatives . |
| 30 | The details on how the transaction should proceed are set out in the text , and these deal with the situation from the moment new instructions are given : the ticking of the relevant boxes on the " fixtures , fittings and contents " form and " property information " form ; dealing with any additional enquiries ; signing the contract in readiness for exchange of contracts ; proceeding to sign the transfer in order to conclude the transaction , and redeeming any outstanding mortgage . |