Example sentences of "[be] [adv] set on " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Very well , my dear Peter , if you are so set on it , your wish is granted . |
| 2 | " You 're still set on starting the secretarial school ? " |
| 3 | ‘ And so you 're really set on pulverizing our bunch then ? |
| 4 | If you 're really set on it , you can scan a printed document via your scanner and send that too , using the software as a traditional fax machine . |
| 5 | With both Maazel and Karajan the point is readily made , but their eyes are clearly set on the internal music argument . |
| 6 | Demolition charges had also been carefully set on machinery in the fish meal and other factories ; these small charges of gun cotton being placed so that they destroyed equipment without the risk of causing needless casualties . |
| 7 | Although Paul is training to become an instrument designer , his sights are now set on an engineering post . |
| 8 | The best of these are now set on the interior of the west wall ( PLATE 41 ) . |
| 9 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 10 | If you were so set on helping me then why did n't you just come straight over and … ’ |
| 11 | The East Germans were not set on abolishing the distinction between town and country , just perhaps on smothering it in a pall of acidic smoke and rain . |
| 12 | The cut and blown glass ornaments were still set on their mirrored shelves in exactly the same positions as when he had unwrapped them . |
| 13 | She talks about the Labeque relationship , about how she and her sister trained separately at Paris Conservatoire , and how , in their teens , when they were both set on solo careers , they would never have dreamed of playing duets . |
| 14 | Lighting is by two Floraset mercury vapour lamps which were originally set on a timer to give 11 hours of light . |
| 15 | Looking back , it seems a marvel that the houses surrounding the Greencroft were never set on fire — the residents must have suffered very anxious hours , but for the rest of us the sight of so many fires all blazing away was one never forgotten . |
| 16 | McCreadie , now 35 , says he 's also been ‘ sounded out ’ about a possible return to team management by an Irish League club , but for the moment his sights are firmly set on a resumption of his playing career . |
| 17 | More conclusive evidence comes from experiments in which the nucleus is removed from a fertilized egg , and is replaced by the nucleus of a cell which is already set on the road to becoming , for example , a gut cell or a skin cell . |
| 18 | The Hotel Metropole is prettily set on the water 's edge of Lake Como and its dining-room and terrace are specifically designed to take full advantage of this position , and give enchanting views across the lake . |
| 19 | Sprat says that he ‘ had the true imagination of the whole extent of this enterprise , as it is now set on foot ’ . |
| 20 | IBM is now set on breaking into smaller sections to become more competitive . |
| 21 | But many people fear that the sun is about to set on Malvern 's tourist based prosperity . |
| 22 | For the moment , though , his mind is firmly set on India and proving the knockers wrong . |
| 23 | Dolly was obviously set on being sociable for the whole evening . |
| 24 | As for him , his heart was still set on finding the sea-king 's palace , with its throne of silver and trumpets of pearl and the coral candles burning beneath the waves . |
| 25 | She was quickly set on fire by the destroyer HMS Somali and the LCAs came alongside the quay . |
| 26 | Ray Gasson 's barn was also set on fire , but things could have been worse . |
| 27 | It 's , I mean he played very well DaSilva I think , but in a completely different mode to the first innings , he was purely set on trying to save the game , trying to battle with , I think he did n't bowl very well , had n't bowled very many short balls in the day and that was perhaps the first one he 's had to receive and er he was caught in two minds really . |
| 28 | The defeat of Labour was greeted with relief by health service managers , but critics said the NHS was now set on the road to privatisation and a two-tier service . |
| 29 | Her mother had stopped crocheting , so Jessie said , and was in the sitting-room going through a catalogue of curtain material for yet another change at the windows and had decided firmly against anything resembling Nottingham Lace ; her mind was now set on drapes with pelmets , so Jessie had whispered to her in the back shop a short while ago . |
| 30 | Hair was then set on rollers and dressed to achieve height on the crown and pieces were brought down for added softness . |