Example sentences of "be set [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 2 | It was envisaged that teachers ' centres would be set up based on the three colleges and that these would combine in-service course work with active experimentation on new approaches . |
| 3 | " Are you saying I am not to be set up to dine with the Prince at Carlton House ? |
| 4 | At the same time Sir David Maxwell Fyfe persistently refused the requests of Sir Robert Boothby in Parliament that a Royal Commission should be set up to enquire into the nature and treatment of homosexuality . |
| 5 | Word processors are obviously going to incorporate many of the features found in page makeup or document assembly programs ; text will simply be passed to a parameter file called , say , REPORT and the document will automatically be set out according to the house style . |