Example sentences of "[noun pl] are set [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A certain number of days are set aside throughout the session for non-governmental business .
2 ‘ The paintings are set directly into the ceiling of an octagonal staircase , ’ Rab explains .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 A MAFF spokesman said that the survey was unnecessary : " Pollution controls are set locally to the nuclear sites .
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