Example sentences of "be set [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Models enable complex relationships to be set up on the computer in numerical form rather than in the form of subjective statements . |
2 | It was hoped that a small part of those works could stay in operation , renovating locomotives and rolling stock and that eventually a heritage museum could be set up on the site . |
3 | In theory , a limited partnership could be set up on the retirement of a working partner , where the continuing partners experience difficulty in acquiring the outgoing partner 's share by an immediate cash payment . |
4 | Clearly , if a person has contracted to buy his own goods from someone else , the contract can be set aside on the basis of mistake and any money paid over will be recoverable because of total failure of consideration . |
5 | Capricorn applied for the service of the writ to be set aside on the ground that the London address did not consitute a place of business in Great Britain or that if service was good , Capricorn sought a stay on the ground of lis alibi pendens in Ohio . |
6 | The board applied for that order to be set aside on the ground that there was no jurisdiction to make it . |
7 | In this case the court was concerned with the question whether the transactions between the bank and the wife should be set aside on the ground of undue influence exerted over the wife by the husband . |
8 | The debtor obtained an order from the county court that the statutory demand and bankruptcy petition be set aside on the ground that the service of the statutory demand had contravened the provision in section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 that ‘ no action shall be brought ’ to recover any costs due to a solicitor within one month of the bill having been delivered . |