Example sentences of "be set [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simone 's Studios command fantastic views of the coastline of mainland Greece and Albania , as they 're set up on a small hill looking out over the bay of Benitses . |
| 2 | This particular perversion , I notice , like every other , has been set up on a professional basis in go-getting New York . |
| 3 | A British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) television programme , Panorama , broadcast on Nov. 18 , suggested that Waite had been set up as a front man in the arms for hostages deal and helped gather intelligence on the whereabouts of the captors . |
| 4 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
| 5 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 6 | The short-term objectives for instruction in online information retrieval , for end-user and intermediaries , are set out in a user-orientated manner in table 3 . |
| 7 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 8 | Hence it was decided that the pathway should be set up as a small demonstration project only and be fully evaluated before its concepts were more widely introduced into the school . |
| 9 | Under the merger terms , a French-based holding company known as RVC will be set up with a French-appointed chairman . |
| 10 | No links need be set up in a relational database between relations . |
| 11 | For technical reasons the house had to be set back under a steep bank , and so feels slightly cramped . |
| 12 | The literature review will be set in to a general policy context of recent developments in the UK vocational training field . |
| 13 | If she will take you , you will be set down in a bare heath , on a great stone , which is made of granite and is the gate to your adventure , though it will seem to have been fixed and unmoving since the making of the world . |
| 14 | Since the mere association of words will not unambiguously point to meaning , the words need to be set down in a particular arrangement . |
| 15 | The limits to spending would be set out with a long-term perspective . |
| 16 | If you have already made an application to the tribunal , perhaps to obviate the risk of missing a crucial time limit should negotiations collapse , the detailed terms might , if it is thought appropriate , be set out in a separate document while you withdraw your claim on form COT 4 . |
| 17 | The charter explicitly promised the privatisation of British Rail , detailed plans for which were supposed to be set out in a white paper . |
| 18 | This provides that the terms of a contract with a sole member/director must either be set out in a written memorandum or be made the subject of a report to the next available board meeting and recorded in the board minutes . |
| 19 | Here Alice and Philip exchanged , with their eyes , feelings about Jim ; exactly as people looked but did not speak , apprehensions over Faye — as if something there was too dangerous for words , or at least volatile , to be set off like a risky electronics device by an injudicious combination of sounds . |
| 20 | He was aware that they could be setting out on a wild-goose chase , but he had to believe that they were n't . |
| 21 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 22 | The scheme was carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration ( AAA ) and the committees were set up at a local level with farmer representatives from the various areas of production , such as wheat , cotton , dairy produce , rice and tobacco . |
| 23 | There were many stations which , whilst not being strictly private , were set up by a narrow section of the public and usually barred to casual travellers . |
| 24 | By statistical analysis of his surveys he showed that the megaliths were set out to a common unit of measurement , the megalithic yard of 0.83 m. , not in simple circles but in circular arcs centred on right-angled triangles . |
| 25 | His religious opinions were set out in A Short History of the Evangelical Movement ( 1915 ) , and his personal interpretation of Whig philosophy in Politics and Personalities ( 1917 ) . |
| 26 | The aims of the national curriculum and its related assessment procedures were set out in a consultative paper published in July 1987 in which it was anticipated that standards of educational provision and attainment would be raised by : |
| 27 | A COMPLAINTS system is being set up by a local authority to make it easier for residents to complain about the service that the council offers . |
| 28 | For , all in the instant of his book and glass being set down on a nearby table ‘ You 're afraid of me , Fabia ? ’ he demanded to know in a straightforward , no nonsense manner . |
| 29 | ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said . |
| 30 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |