Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never before had events within Scotland been so firmly set on the international stage . |
| 2 | However , union fees are almost invariably set as a constant amount of earnings rather than a proportion . |
| 3 | But then take a hospital series like Casualty which has been quite explicitly set in the context of a decaying health service . |
| 4 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 5 | With chestnut-brown hair and classical bone-structure but rather coarse skin , Sister Davenport could have been quite pretty if her face were n't permanently set in a narrow repertoire of sly looks and cruel smiles . |
| 6 | And for historically minded exploitation devotees , there is Terror Train ( MGM/UA ) , made in 1980 and one of umpteen contemporaneous movies patterned after Halloween , but with the novelty of being almost wholly set aboard a train . |
| 7 | But the institutions of the 1970s were too rigidly set within the competing duopoly ( BBC 1 + BBC2 = ITV ) to be able to meet fully the demands made upon them . |
| 8 | Poland 's next general election is not due until 1993 , but there are local ones on May 27th — and meanwhile the government is already well set on the capitalist road . |
| 9 | The King of Ireland would take over the ceremonial duties of the Irish President , who is now nominally set over the Irish Prime Minister . |
| 10 | Here Campra made a special feature of a formula Lully used on occasion : the magic/supernatural music is almost always set in the key of VI in relation to a preceding minor key . |
| 11 | The depiction of the Legion itself might not have been truly authentic but what gave Black Legion much of its initial impact was that the story with all its political message and melodrama was very firmly set in a very real community of American working men . |
| 12 | This was realism with a vengeance ; a true story had been used to depict a very real penal practice and the whole thing was very deliberately set by the studio in a specific historical context . |