Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] set [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In more remote areas reserves were set aside for the igi indigenous hab , inhabitants . |
| 2 | A certain number of days are set aside throughout the session for non-governmental business . |
| 3 | The rails were set flush with the concrete and he negotiated them carefully . |
| 4 | ‘ The paintings are set directly into the ceiling of an octagonal staircase , ’ Rab explains . |
| 5 | Ensure rocky structures are set firmly into the gravel ; more complicated structures can be siliconed together before placing in the tank ( and/or siliconed to the glass ) . |
| 6 | While it remains unclear to this reader exactly what moral or spiritual relations are set forth in the three stories which comprise the titular parables , Proofs , the main part of the present volume , concerns itself with how the collapse of communism threatens the whole Western intellectual tradition of idealism and asceticism . |
| 7 | A MAFF spokesman said that the survey was unnecessary : " Pollution controls are set locally to the nuclear sites . |
| 8 | A row of buses waited outside the station to take the racegoers away to a variety of outlying motels , and a long new coach with darkly tinted windows was set aside for the owners . |
| 9 | The relationship is unusual in that Scrope 's men were set directly under the duke . |
| 10 | The relationship is unusual in that Scrope 's men were set directly under the duke . |
| 11 | Cranston roared with laughter and led Athelstan over to the far corner where a table and stools were set apart from the rest of the customers . |
| 12 | Certain lands were set aside for the upkeep of religious and charitable foundations — the vakifs . |
| 13 | Newson and Newson ( 1.3 ) suggest that it is only in this century that questions about how to bring up children have been widely discussed ; hitherto the niceties of different child-rearing philosophies were set aside in the face of a more fundamental dilemma , whether children would survive at all beyond the first few years . |
| 14 | In May 1965 £100 from the Society Stewards ' accounts was set aside as the beginning of a Building Fund , the purpose of which was either to extend the existing halls or to build new ones . |
| 15 | Israel appears to have shared many of the techniques and conceptions of sacrifice of her neighbours , but her own observances were set firmly in the framework of God 's revelation at Sinai . |
| 16 | The second series of the Advocates was set partly in the University itself . |