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

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1 Bonuses are determined by the Management Development and Remuneration Committee for the achievement of budgeted profit targets and personal objectives which are set at the beginning of the financial year .
2 This quotation gives a vivid insight into how someone who is basically sympathetic towards black people can come to adopt a racialist language in order to conform to the expectations of the group , which are set by a minority of active racists .
3 On other occasions , teachers commented that tasks without an obvious method of solution which were set to the intake year and also to other years were tackled better by the intake year in spite of the fact that they were younger .
4 After the A453 and its attendant petrol station it is again worth paddling to lock 11 which is set between a container terminal and a sportsground lined with poplar trees which shed their downy white seed onto the canal in profusion at this time of year .
5 KINGS of video action , Dolph Lundgren and Jean Claude Van Damme , team up in Universal Soldier which is set for a December 29 release on tape after a good run at cinemas .
6 The algorithm includes an extra variable called LR , for ’ Last Rule ’ , which is set to the rule which generated the current state N.
7 Their Artistic Director , Emelie Fitzgibbon , directs this specially-commissioned play which is set against the background of the Medieval Crusades .
8 It comes in Dorothy L. Sayers ' Five Red Herrings , which is set among a group of artists .
9 I think also , the people of Wiltshire will be glad that it us here setting the budget , and therefore the precept and their council tax next year , and something that people will be looking at is their council tax bills , and noting that they go up by six point three percent , or are proposed to , with the provisional assets aim which is set by the government .
10 I therefore thought I would write to let your readers know about Brantridge Park — a beautiful mansion house once owned by Queen Victoria 's grand-daughter , Princess Alice , which is set in the heart of the Sussex countryside .
11 She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver .
12 I went outside and stood in front of the police station , which was set on a hill .
13 the timetable which was set for the tasks of the project , and
14 In early mosques , the focal point for prayer was a sacred stone ( the qibla ) , which was set in a wall facing Mecca ; it later became customary to enclose this stone within an arch-shaped niche known as a mihrab , or prayer niche .
15 The fourth task was to get across a piece of rope which had been tied around three trees which was set in a triangle .
16 ‘ Because you 're set on a course of self-destruction , that 's why , Lizzy . ’
17 We 're set for the end of the century , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't look much further than that , can you ? ’
18 In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion .
19 By the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 , coming into force on the same day as the Act , that is to say 14 October 1991 , applications under the Act are to be found under rule 4.4 , and under paragraph ( 4 ) there is set out the way in which ex parte applications can be made under section 8 in respect of a prohibited steps order or a specific issue order , and then in respect of emergency protection orders and recovery orders .
20 When the facts or events I mentioned above are put together in sequence , and when they are set into the background of recent developments , then a different and far more worrying interpretation begins to appear .
21 They are set by the market and reflect international trading conditions .
22 Tonight they 're setting up a road check in the area where he was murdered .
23 They 're set into a set combination .
24 They were set for the garlic and the prawns , if they made it quick .
25 He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them .
26 Would it be set against a Schedule E liability in the year the guarantee was made , or against the Schedule E liability in the year the payment was made ?
27 River pollution nearly wiped out eel stocks in the Thames , but now the water 's cleaner it 's set for a revival .
28 It 's set in the Ammer valley some 85kms from Munich , surrounded by grass and flower covered foothills that steepen and rear into high mountains .
29 It is set on a platform reached by seventy-four basalt steps , and its tall twin white towers , set each side of the main doorway , make it a landmark from Funchal way below .
30 Boasting easy access to the hinterland for those who wish to explore , about ten minutes walk from the centre of the city itself and around 50 yards from the sea and sand of the beach , it is set on a corner location .
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