Example sentences of "[am/are] set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow .
2 We 're setting up in another hangar and hope to be back in business soon .
3 When you go and buy your ticket and you 're setting off on that day
4 Perhaps we will even copy the German Gruppe in which the decentralized units are set up as separate companies with their own top managements .
5 The laws often also mean that specific committees and specific departments are set up within local authorities to administer the services .
6 The actual ATs and PS are set out in separate documents ( for example Science and the National Curriculum ) which have recently been issued to schools ( and are also available for purchase through HMSO ) .
7 Guidance notes on fees for MAS work are set out in various sections of this MAS Practice Guide as follows :
8 The way in which the above activities are set out in this handbook is deliberately quite detailed in order to suit those who prefer to know how to do everything step by step .
9 The terms and conditions of their engagement ( and many organisations are careful not to use the word " employment " ) are set out in special handbooks , or in the contracts which casual workers are required to sign , and these seek to make the parties ' lack of mutual obligation clear .
10 The principles of corporate ownership are set out in multi-lingual editions of our detailed brochure available on request .
11 The circumstances in which Mrs. O'Brien was persuaded by her husband to sign the legal charge are set out in some detail in the judge 's judgment .
12 Thereafter , it is slightly intimidating when subjects are set down for each day 's debate , and we feel a little restricted in moving beyond the sphere of the Ministers on the Front Bench .
13 They have been promised permanent showing : they have been given carefully considered hanging , and in some cases have chosen the position themselves ; their works are set off with surprising poise by the predominantly green and white college buildings and gardens , a complex severe and playful at once , severe in its geometry and playful in its romanesque quotations .
14 Western PTTs are setting up in Eastern Europe , often initially to support their multinational clients ' operations there .
15 ‘ Now you are setting off on mad expeditions . ’
16 Do a dummy run if necessary , you will then be sure you are setting out in good time .
17 The Oakes Report , which appeared exactly one year after the setting-up of the committee , made a number of recommendations of which perhaps the most important was that an independent national body be set up with specific terms of reference to include the ‘ general oversight of the development of maintained higher education ’ and the responsibility to ‘ collect , analyse and present where appropriate in conjunction with the Department of Education and Science and the University Grants Committee information affecting the demand for and supply of higher education in the maintained sector ’ .
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