Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never before had events within Scotland been so firmly set on the international stage . |
| 2 | But then take a hospital series like Casualty which has been quite explicitly set in the context of a decaying health service . |
| 3 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 4 | But the institutions of the 1970s were too rigidly set within the competing duopoly ( BBC 1 + BBC2 = ITV ) to be able to meet fully the demands made upon them . |
| 5 | Poland 's next general election is not due until 1993 , but there are local ones on May 27th — and meanwhile the government is already well set on the capitalist road . |
| 6 | The King of Ireland would take over the ceremonial duties of the Irish President , who is now nominally set over the Irish Prime Minister . |
| 7 | Here Campra made a special feature of a formula Lully used on occasion : the magic/supernatural music is almost always set in the key of VI in relation to a preceding minor key . |
| 8 | This was realism with a vengeance ; a true story had been used to depict a very real penal practice and the whole thing was very deliberately set by the studio in a specific historical context . |