Example sentences of "be set [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | turnpikes or toll-bars have been set up on the several great roads of England , beginning at London , and proceeding thro' almost all those dirty deep roads , in the midland counties especially ; at which turnpikes all carriages , droves of cattle , and travellers on horseback are obliged to pay an easy toll … in no place is it thought a burthen … the benefit of a good road abundantly making amends . |
| 2 | Most of the books that had been set out on the last delivery had gone , and now more volumes were being added . |
| 3 | Details of the amounts due to be billed and the properties concerned are set out on the attached sheet for your information . |
| 4 | I have founded my judgment upon the grounds which I have already expressed , but I do not wish to be understood as thereby negativing the proposition that a defence might be set up on the alternative basis mentioned by Willes J. In my opinion this appeal should be allowed . |
| 5 | It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows . |
| 6 | The main finishing dais will be set up on the cobbled William Brown Street . |
| 7 | In one form — the earliest is usually attributed to the Boston Consulting Group , USA — a 3 × 3 matrix is set up on the two axes as in Figure 2.4 . |
| 8 | The consolidated p&l account is set out on the alternative format , with separate columns for continuing and discontinued operations . |