Example sentences of "[been] set [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving .
32 The first visible sign of his drive for progress has already been set in the nuclear field .
33 This call follows the LIFESPAN DC access rules which restricts access to a DC ( unless the optional switch has been set in the configuration file ) to the associated DC user or an interested user ( i.e. the manager of any modules on the DC or the manager of packages containing one or more of these modules ) or , if applicable , the nominated approver of the package via which the DC has been activated .
34 A new world record has been set in the Central South region .
35 Precedents have been set by the Trans-Pennine Movement ( with an all-party MPs ' group in support ) , by the powerful counter-action in the North East when Scottish devolution was in the air ; the developmental spirit of the regional economic planning councils abolished by government in 1979 is abroad again , though unconnected , in all three regions .
36 The TSBs have told us that their lending , started only in 1977 , is increasing rapidly ( within a quota which has been set by the Treasury ) .
37 Standards that have been set by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders .
38 The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence .
39 The opening price for " Node Check " had already been set by the dealing manager , who had arrived a little earlier .
40 At this time the fastest anyone had yet covered the English mile distance had been set by the professional runner , William Richards , at 4 minutes 17¼ seconds in Manchester on 19 August 1865 .
41 The deadline of Dec. 15 had been set by the UN after Cristiani had tried to delay a purge of senior military figures [ see p. 39137 ] .
42 Inside it looked a bit old-fashioned , as if the style had been set by the Festival of Britain and never changed .
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