Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The focal symbol of sovereignty is the crown set on a sovereign 's head , the seat of perception and decision , during the rite of coronation . |
| 2 | June 6 is the date set for the final closure of St Mary 's hospital , Colchester , when the outpatient department will be transferred to Colchester District General and Severalls hospitals , two years after St Mary 's in-patients were transferred to Severalls Hospital . |
| 3 | 31st December 1992 is the date set for the achievement of an ambitious programme . |
| 4 | If you put such a statement firmly into the mouth of your detective or state it flatly yourself , the reader will realise , even without consciously doing so , that this is the limit set for the game , the frame of the crossword puzzle , and will plunge on happily . |
| 5 | The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament . |
| 6 | ( Champagne 's a tradition set by the early pioneers for those who dare to cross the Timor Sea . ) |
| 7 | There is no date set for the retirement , and Mrs. Rooney is happy to stay on to help her successor learn the ropes . |
| 8 | Xorandor is a tale set in the near future of two twelve-year-old fraternal twins called Jip and Zab who find a talking stone at an old carn in their native Cornwall . |
| 9 | The happy faces of many , the vacant stare of astonishment of others , and the alarm depicted on the countenance of some , gave variety to the picture ’ , was the scene set by an onlooker . |
| 10 | This was the poser set for the department two years ago . |
| 11 | There was a door set into the wall behind the stone . |
| 12 | Imagining his Sara ‘ all oppressed with gloom ’ , Coleridge 's spontaneous reply was a poem set in the descriptive frame of an evening visit to Shurton Bars , the coastal area lying beyond a rich tract of open fields to the north of Shurton Court . |
| 13 | He said in addition that there was no date set for the completion of the study . |
| 14 | From Robert 's description of the place I presume that it had once been an attic , for it was small , the ceiling sloped , and there was no window set into the wall . |
| 15 | ‘ From Robert 's description of the place , ’ he read , ‘ I presume that it had once been an attic , for it was small , the ceiling sloped , and there was no window set into the wall . ’ |