Example sentences of "[be] [verb] set [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dark , scorched areas suggested that an unsuccessful attempt had been made to set fire to it . |
| 2 | Third , there is a possibility that the APU will be used to set attainment targets to raise standards with the result that teachers will teach to them , and inevitably the curriculum will be narrowed . |
| 3 | Pilots entering an airfield MATZ will be asked to set airfield QNH . |
| 4 | One faintly ludicrous example is a 1993 case where the Court of Appeal said that a sentence passed on a Mr Fairman would ‘ indicate to other people who might be minded to set fire to armchairs in the middle of a domestic row that if they do , they were likely to go to prison for as long as two years ’ . |
| 5 | A rather less ebullient Peregrine hurried round complaining of not being allowed to set foot in London since his recent Channel crossing . |
| 6 | JOHN Major , of course , is known to set store by the ‘ feelgood factor ’ occasioned by English sporting successes . |
| 7 | ‘ He clearly knew he was going to set fire to the flat . |
| 8 | The obvious interpretation was that Eric was going to set fire to some dogs , but I was too wise in the ways of the Factory to treat that as definite ; I suspected there was more |
| 9 | I , I think it 's things like I was trying to do Setup last night , I was trying to set page length , you know paper size , and |