Example sentences of "[prep] be set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Endeavours to explain to a child the reasons for the restraints put upon him , may appear to be setting too much store on his intelligence , but this will not necessarily be so , for there is much evidence that adult training of children is very often obstructive rather than progressive . |
| 8 | She spun the tape on and a polite Scottish voice informed her that her services were required by an independent television company about to start work on a drama based on the oil business , to be set largely around Aberdeen . |
| 9 | Ears are to be set well apart , hanging forward with the inner edge lying tightly against the head and terminating at approximately mid-cheek . |
| 10 | Henry III 's political miscalculation had to be set right , and it was imperative that the status of the Gascon lands be redefined . |
| 11 | Thus , through the effect of public opinion , do his team 's standards have to be set higher and higher . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 14 | Although the poem contains such pessimistic overtones and pathetic acceptance of fate there is hope to be found in the last two lines which seem to be set apart from the rest . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Conservative Conference : Food safety directorate to be set up |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The chassis seems to be set up more for stability than agility . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The development of housing for sale with the use of private funding can not be carried out by a registered housing association — Northern Counties Provident Housing Association — had to be set up . |
| 25 | The new body — to be set up by the 12 countries of the European Community and the six countries of the European Free Trade Association — would be open to east European states who opt for democracy . |
| 26 | A full-time pressure group is likely to be set up in the new year . |
| 27 | A development bank is to be set up , Poland will get more than $500,000,000 from the EC , and Hungary too is getting assistance . |
| 28 | The Joint Co-ordinating Committee to be set up to maintain standards countrywide is now to have an independent chairman . |
| 29 | They have to be set up , in full , locally , with a minimum of imported parts and remote decisions . |
| 30 | Last year the Russian parliament named Kaliningrad one of six potential free-trade zones to be set up within the Federation . |