Example sentences of "[noun pl] be set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In more remote areas reserves were set aside for the igi indigenous hab , inhabitants .
2 New mathematical ideas are set firmly in a known context .
3 A certain number of days are set aside throughout the session for non-governmental business .
4 The rails were set flush with the concrete and he negotiated them carefully .
5 ‘ The paintings are set directly into the ceiling of an octagonal staircase , ’ Rab explains .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
8 A MAFF spokesman said that the survey was unnecessary : " Pollution controls are set locally to the nuclear sites .
9 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 .
10 The relationship is unusual in that Scrope 's men were set directly under the duke .
11 The relationship is unusual in that Scrope 's men were set directly under the duke .
12 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 .
13 Certain lands were set aside for the upkeep of religious and charitable foundations — the vakifs .
14 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 .
15 Furthermore , the whole list of injuries is set aside as a sort of sub-section , marked by three asterisks at the top and three at the bottom , so that the change of topic or scene is explicitly signalled to the reader .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The second series of the Advocates was set partly in the University itself .
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