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

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1 Our conclusions for what they are worth are set out and we come to a figure of about forty five thousand .
2 Grazing groups receive aid based on the number of livestock managed in common and paid over the first 3 years after being set up ; amounts range from 144FF to 370FF per livestock unit ( c. £12.50-£32. 17 ) , the higher rates payable to the groups with least livestock units .
3 But in a week in which a 16-year-old girl died after being set alight , a 14-year-old was raped and a widow of 99 beaten to death , I do n't think Joanna deserves too much compassion .
4 In the North , Huddersfield car salesman Mohammed Sadiq is seriously ill after being set on fire in abrutal attack .
5 Rovers maintained their pressure , but Jason Wilcox fluffed a near-post flick after being set up by Shearer , and then Newell hit the bar after turning cleverly and shooting past Hooper .
6 After being set , hair was dressed into barrel curls
7 Midfielder Stephen Small got the goal with a splendid chip from the 18 yard line after being set up by Billy Totten .
8 Les Armstrong gave Gretna the lead with a shot from the edge of the box midway through the first half , but Shildon levelled fifteen minutes from time through Micky Taylor after being set up by Colin Blackburn .
9 Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music .
10 ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said .
11 Half the class refused to go to the lessons , frightened of being set on fire or being thrown through a window , but Endill liked the suspense of waiting to see what each mixture did next .
12 The first trend is the movement within the philosophy of religion away from the Cartesian view that if God existed some proof of His existence must be capable of being set out , in the way that Descartes himself attempted to set it out .
13 A dramatic experience of a submarine under attack in the North Atlantic , coupled to the terrible effects of being set adrift in a raft in mid-Atlantic .
14 A tradition is not a matter of being set in your ways .
15 By the time he died there were no animals left in the yard , nor land to call his own , for it had been sold to the building men , who were throwing up The Courts in order to house the rabble from starving Ireland and those flooding in from all the villages from miles around , all in the hope of being set on and blankets and shawls , everything that would go to cover a human being .
16 ‘ Like the sonata , the concerto also has the same seriousness of purpose and it is very definitely large-scale in its emotional and musical content , in spite of being set in just one single movement . ’
17 However , a number of small watches have been set up or are in the process of being set up and by the summer about 80% of the village will be covered .
18 However , a number of small watches have been set up or are in the process of being set up and by the summer about 80% of the village will be covered .
19 You know our first victory was w sort of within forty eight hours of being set up .
20 She was hazily aware of being set down in a chair , then her head was pushed none too gently between her knees .
21 When work is not in progress on a module but the module must be accessed by a package , the module must be locked against being set to hard copy only and against modification .
22 It is important to obtain specific legal advice in all circumstances to protect the firm 's position and to minimise any likelihood of the arrangements entered into being set aside by any ‘ disgruntled ’ investor after the event .
23 The rules of the game , then , far from being set by society so as to ensure fair play for all , seemed to be set by the local authorities .
24 This sort of work frequently benefits from being set up to create a triangle , so that each group has some relationship with the other two , each group needs and services the other two .
25 The BG-BASE system promises great potential , but has been very slow in being set up .
26 MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — Armed insurgents were reported yesterday to be setting up camps in the hilly terrain of Nagorny Karabakh as tensions between the Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan threatened to erupt into full-scale confrontation .
27 Was this was ‘ a good example to be setting to the Chinese Government ’ ?
28 Endeavours to explain to a child the reasons for the restraints put upon him , may appear to be setting too much store on his intelligence , but this will not necessarily be so , for there is much evidence that adult training of children is very often obstructive rather than progressive .
29 The prospect of a play attempting to deal realistically with the phenomenon of drug and club culture would seem to be setting itself up as a target for scorn and ridicule from people involved in the scene and as a scapegoat for moral guardians who bitterly oppose it .
30 He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison .
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