Example sentences of "be set [adv prt] on [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Details of the amounts due to be billed and the properties concerned are set out on the attached sheet for your information . |
| 5 | I have founded my judgment upon the grounds which I have already expressed , but I do not wish to be understood as thereby negativing the proposition that a defence might be set up on the alternative basis mentioned by Willes J. In my opinion this appeal should be allowed . |
| 6 | It is rumoured that an oil rig is to be set up on the local water meadows . |
| 7 | The main finishing dais will be set up on the cobbled William Brown Street . |
| 8 | He was aware that they could be setting out on a wild-goose chase , but he had to believe that they were n't . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For an artist to travel is to set out on a visual adventure which may or may not end in fulfilment . |
| 12 | The consolidated p&l account is set out on the alternative format , with separate columns for continuing and discontinued operations . |