Example sentences of "be set the [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Round the floor of the valley are set the entrances to the tombs . |
| 2 | Against these objections must be set the advantages of the rating system : payment is difficult to avoid , income is predictable , and collection is cheap and easy . |
| 3 | Overall , the effect of the suspension of indexation will raise an additional £730 million in 1993/4 , although against this must be set the cost of the extension of the 20p band which will cost £370 million , leaving the Treasury £360 million better off in the coming year . |
| 4 | The Iraqis argued that if the USA were to set the date for the Bush-Aziz meeting , Iraq should have been allowed to choose the date of the Baker-Saddam meeting . |
| 5 | It was the Summer of Love and the young were setting the controls for the heart of the sun . |
| 6 | An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event . |
| 7 | In the finale , as the whole orchestra was pronouncing the triple supplication ‘ Do-na-no-bis-pa-cem ’ , all at once a wonderful gesture escaped you : you plunged your left fist deep down as if you were setting the torch to the side of a funeral pyre . |
| 8 | However , Dunlop who has been setting the pace in the championship for most of the season and was successful at Tandragee , is the man they all have to beat . |
| 9 | Environmental issues are setting the agenda for the future of the household cleaning and care product market in Europe , but , according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan , some manufacturers and retailers have failed to exploit this in their marketing initiatives . |
| 10 | What we have succeeded in doing so far is to set the scene for the quantum mechanical play . |
| 11 | if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would . |
| 12 | And he 's setting the scene for the Resurrection he 's setting the setting the scene for his triumph out of despair . |
| 13 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 14 | My reference in the next ensuing paragraph to the general principles of responsibility of the principal for the acts of the agent was to set the context of the consideration that in that particular case the solicitors for the creditors were equally deceived by the dishonest conduct of the son as were his own parents . |
| 15 | But , as things transpired , it was Nation 's eventual storyline , initially titled ‘ The Mutants ’ that was to set the seal on the way the science fiction stories would be handled within Doctor Who 's structure . |
| 16 | This feature is illustrated in figure 5.2 , in which it can be seen that in period 3 ( odd ) w t was set the end of the period 2 ( even ) but was actually set two periods earlier in period 1 ( odd ) . |
| 17 | Doug felt that , as his head of department , Mary was setting the agenda of the meetings , even though she had not seen the videos he made while teaching : ‘ There may be conflict there . |