Example sentences of "be [adj] [noun] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its place are three buttons set into the right hand cab pillar . |
| 2 | You go from er Hopeworths , Mason and Burnhams , John , Gill and Russells , Walker Brothers it was er a terribly industrial , well you could fi Road used to be all granite sets in the road , there was n't the , because there was so much traffic went up and down er it was all made of granite sets when I , when I was a kid , but my , shall I tell you what I used to do when I was a kid for my Saturday morning ? |
| 3 | Yet these are small gains to set against the many reverses the right has suffered since Mr de Klerk started to undo apartheid . |
| 4 | There were five television sets in the house now : one for the nursery , one for the nanny 's room , one for her and Brian 's bedroom , one for their sitting-room and one for the room off the kitchen . |
| 5 | However , this is small beer set against the £1.8bn Ford has earmarked for investment in the UK between 1988 and 1993 . |
| 6 | News that a consortium of oil companies and governments was nearing agreement on bringing Hibernia into production by the mid-1990s was distant comfort set against the threat to the fisheries . |