Example sentences of "[pers pn] be set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | BELVILLE : If I be set upon a wrong thing you must not dispute with me but do it and expostulate afterwards . |
2 | With a monochrome viewfinder. use ‘ auto ’ or remember to check that you are set to the correct preset . |
3 | You were set on a different road : you could even become — who knows ? — a schoolteacher . |
4 | Now she 's set for a quiet life |
5 | Halifax have made some great buys and we are set for a successful season . ’ |
6 | In other words , we were set for a few laughs . |
7 | At low capacity , prices will frequently be high since they are set on the vertical part of the short-run marginal cost curves . |
8 | They are set in a peaceful location only one kilometre from some of the most fantastic sand dunes in the Canaries and a short bus ride from the heart of the nightlife of Playa Del Ingles . |
9 | ‘ It 's set in a small valley in a remote region somewhere in the world . |
10 | It 's set in a large bay , about two miles deep and one mile wide , on the north west corner of the Bodrum Peninsula . |
11 | It 's set in a quiet location just one minute walk from the centre of the village . |
12 | It 's set in an instrumental ambient world a few parallel light years away from The Orb , with titles like ‘ Xtai ’ , ‘ Ptolemy ’ , ‘ Heliosphan ’ and ‘ Hedphelyn ’ that demonstrate the art of Chill-out techno and loads of bits that sound like your phone ringing . |
13 | This is called the fill light , and it is set on the other side of the camera to reduce the depth of the shadows and to soften the modelling of the subject . |
14 | Unusually for a city hotel , it is set around a lovely , lush private garden where sun-loungers are set out around the wonderfully secluded swimming pool . |
15 | It is set in a medieval castle in a historic town in Eastern Europe . |
16 | And then there is the international novel , which is particularly easy to translate because it is set in a generalised Nowhere and has no idiosyncratic language to disturb its translators . |
17 | It is set in a quiet and sunny spot just 12 minutes walk from the village . |
18 | It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog . |
19 | It was set beside an ornamental lake which was decorated by tumbling rocks , an island grotto and a waterfall , all lit by gas lamps . |
20 | It was set with a full English breakfast — well , she had told Michele she was always hungry — and while she poured herself some coffee and began on the bacon and eggs she recalled their first meeting . |
21 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
22 | It was set in a trim garden girdled by white painted paling ; if not God 's cottage , certainly not his manor . |
23 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
24 | It was set around a complete quadrangle , and built of rusticated stone . |