Example sentences of "[be] set [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses .
2 This particular perversion , I notice , like every other , has been set up on a professional basis in go-getting New York .
3 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 .
4 I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns .
5 Most of the books that had been set out on the last delivery had gone , and now more volumes were being added .
6 Details of the amounts due to be billed and the properties concerned are set out on the attached sheet for your information .
7 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 .
8 It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows .
9 The main finishing dais will be set up on the cobbled William Brown Street .
10 He was aware that they could be setting out on a wild-goose chase , but he had to believe that they were n't .
11 For , all in the instant of his book and glass being set down on a nearby table ‘ You 're afraid of me , Fabia ? ’ he demanded to know in a straightforward , no nonsense manner .
12 But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return .
13 hello there … today we 've come east to the far east for our Central South sport … we 're in Nepal with some local pioneers who are setting off on the first ever Kathmandu marathon … before we run we have join our football parade …
14 For an artist to travel is to set out on a visual adventure which may or may not end in fulfilment .
15 The Holiday Inn is set right on the white sandy beach of Batu Ferringhi , about 20 minutes drive from Georgetown .
16 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 .
17 The consolidated p&l account is set out on the alternative format , with separate columns for continuing and discontinued operations .
18 I keep sending memos urging them to make a decision now regarding the next one in four year 's time and asking that BBC2 be set aside on the appointed dates for Ryder Cup coverage .
19 This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks …
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