Example sentences of "[prep] [be] set [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Our conclusions for what they are worth are set out and we come to a figure of about forty five thousand .
2 Grazing groups receive aid based on the number of livestock managed in common and paid over the first 3 years after being set up ; amounts range from 144FF to 370FF per livestock unit ( c. £12.50-£32. 17 ) , the higher rates payable to the groups with least livestock units .
3 Rovers maintained their pressure , but Jason Wilcox fluffed a near-post flick after being set up by Shearer , and then Newell hit the bar after turning cleverly and shooting past Hooper .
4 Midfielder Stephen Small got the goal with a splendid chip from the 18 yard line after being set up by Billy Totten .
5 Les Armstrong gave Gretna the lead with a shot from the edge of the box midway through the first half , but Shildon levelled fifteen minutes from time through Micky Taylor after being set up by Colin Blackburn .
6 By the time he died there were no animals left in the yard , nor land to call his own , for it had been sold to the building men , who were throwing up The Courts in order to house the rabble from starving Ireland and those flooding in from all the villages from miles around , all in the hope of being set on and blankets and shawls , everything that would go to cover a human being .
7 However , a number of small watches have been set up or are in the process of being set up and by the summer about 80% of the village will be covered .
8 However , a number of small watches have been set up or are in the process of being set up and by the summer about 80% of the village will be covered .
9 You know our first victory was w sort of within forty eight hours of being set up .
10 She was hazily aware of being set down in a chair , then her head was pushed none too gently between her knees .
11 ‘ I have offered a prediction to several officials of the Soviet government that , on the present slow course , the reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a general collapse of confidence in the rouble — an inflationary disintegration , ’ Mr Angell said .
12 The first trend is the movement within the philosophy of religion away from the Cartesian view that if God existed some proof of His existence must be capable of being set out , in the way that Descartes himself attempted to set it out .
13 This sort of work frequently benefits from being set up to create a triangle , so that each group has some relationship with the other two , each group needs and services the other two .
14 The BG-BASE system promises great potential , but has been very slow in being set up .
15 MOSCOW ( Reuter ) — Armed insurgents were reported yesterday to be setting up camps in the hilly terrain of Nagorny Karabakh as tensions between the Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan threatened to erupt into full-scale confrontation .
16 He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison .
17 Er , let's , they are , seem to be setting up the s the administrative structures for regional government , without any democratic regional government taking part in the process .
18 It is , as my colleague in the Establishment Division remarked , shaking his head sagely , when I made application to him , ‘ a difficult time to be setting up home ’ .
19 No I asked her to start but that 's all , and I kept that in the meant to be setting up a place in the posh area but they got ta have
20 If it begins from the assumption of difference and then adduces literacy as the explanation , the argument is open to the same criticism that Goody himself levels at Lévi-Strauss ' dualism ; if , on the other hand , it begins from the assumption that literacy is the crucial source of difference and that the mental differences follow from this , then it is beginning from the very assumption that it claims to be setting out to prove .
21 As he spoke , the alarmed young woman — only quite attractive , Hope assessed , a little too thin in the face for his taste — glanced behind and then beyond and back again as if expecting to be set on by bandits .
22 The development of a Tennis Teachers Course offers help to the non-coach teacher , and the inauguration of County Schools Tennis Associations ( there are now 39 ) has enabled locally based courses to be set up .
23 A new company is to be set up by Sanken Electric of Japan , and the Gooding Group of the UK , to manufacture special types of power supplies for the electronic and computer industry .
24 The governments ' main complaint is that for the Commission 's plan to work , a special clearing house would have to be set up to reapportion VAT revenue levied in the country of export which would be owing to that of import - where the product would be consumed .
25 The Conservative Conference : Food safety directorate to be set up
26 A FOOD safety directorate is to be set up in the Ministry of Agriculture to co-ordinate research and monitoring and improve public awareness of food issues , Judy Jones writes .
27 As a small sop to regional differences , special networks were to be set up in the Ukraine , the Caucasus , and the other national minority areas .
28 With cemeteries to maintain all over the world it is nor surprising that a variety of arrangements , contracts and agreements have had to be set up to ensure proper care and maintenance .
29 The chassis seems to be set up more for stability than agility .
30 A NEW unit is to be set up by the Multiple Sclerosis Society which will devote its time to research into MS , a disease of the nervous system .
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