Example sentences of "[indef pn] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone set off a rocket over the green , and red and blue sparks hung for a moment against the thunderclouds then vanished into thin air . |
| 2 | Someone set a bomb at the house of the US Attorney General . |
| 3 | In 1326 somebody set fire to the peat moor in the Brue valley , with the idea of burning Glastonbury Abbey . |
| 4 | Everyone is short of cash , and nobody set on the goal of having a station could argue with the idea of combining the efforts . |
| 5 | This is one of those channels where it 's hard to find a bad sound ; everything set on 5 is about right , full-bodied but still jangly , exactly how it should be . |
| 6 | This is a big sound with everything set rather far back in a reverberant hall in the orchestra 's hone city . |
| 7 | And see if we get something set up , probably I think May would be favourite would n't it ? |
| 8 | Michael , the second of three tennis playing brothers , took the 21 and under title with a powerful 6–3 6–3 victory over Graham Hobbs ( Dorset ) : whilst younger brother Craig , fought back from one set down against James Lake ( Lincs ) to win the 12 and under title 4–6 6–2 6–1 . |
| 9 | So one set out with a policy of having good human relations and my friendship with Marcus Sieff ( now president of Marks $ Spencer ) dating back to 1953 has also had an influence . |
| 10 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 11 | While all this good fortune unfolded , Seth said he was hard at work on his next novel , Mambo Mephiste , this one set in New Orleans . |
| 12 | The fuel system had three different sized pipes all leaking and one set to self destruct on the hot manifold as were two of the water pipes to the rear heater . |
| 13 | He dreams of a mass consumer market , with one set per person rather than today 's one per home . |
| 14 | It also has two sets of wheels , one set to guide it on rails and a set of rubber tyres for roads . |
| 15 | If I had to choose one set it would either be Rogé or this EMI issue . |
| 16 | So you nip down to the shop , hand over six quid or so with bad grace , choose — somehow — one set from the enormous and multicoloured collection on offer , zoom home and spend a happy ten minutes snipping , cranking and generally trying to avoid poking your eye out . |
| 17 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 18 | The 13-year-old West Bridgford LTC player managed to grapple his way from one set behind in this epic encounter , eventually wearing down a smaller-framed Neathey to take the match by two sets to one . |
| 19 | Protocol was strict in a less democratic age ; members of the Engineer 's staff were not permitted to speak to students unless spoken to , and all maintenance staff were issued with two sets of overalls and instructed to keep one set spotlessly clean . |
| 20 | Mr Stephens was careful to read the short poems and finished up with one set not far from the place at which John was hired . |
| 21 | this one set of social relations , of production , accounts for the relations in other spheres of social life within each locality or region , that politics and ideology are essentially explicable in terms of economic change and restructuring . |
| 22 | Jesus , the one set apart by the Spirit as the Son of God , dares to call God by this name . |
| 23 | Barthes describes how the make-up has the ‘ snow thickness of a mask ; it is not a painted face , but one set in plaster , protected by the surface of the colour not by its lineaments ’ ( Barthes , 1973 ) ; ‘ and the eyes simply black in the strange soft flesh but not in the least expressive ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're in that early-evening soap opera , are n't you — the one set in a hospital ? ’ |
| 25 | The coaching stock was one set German ( DB ) and one set BR Mark I. In the yard we could see their ‘ Kriegslok ’ 2-10-0 on display . |
| 26 | ‘ We had to remove one set which was already up for a production by the church 's own drama group . |
| 27 | Suppose that one set the pendulum in motion , waited long enough for transients to die away , and then attempted to predict ( on the basis of previous experience ) what one would observe if one looked at the pendulum . |
| 28 | So the dual role of any human being as a producer and consumer is torn apart , with one set against the other . |
| 29 | You 've given him one set already have you ? |
| 30 | ‘ It would be difficult to invent a more complicated system for taxing the self-employed even if one set out with that very objective , ’ Mr Lamont said . |