Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prices have been set at from $5,200 . |
| 2 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 3 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 4 | I would drive a few yards through the gate marked ‘ private ’ and instantly be set upon by men wielding knobbly aluminium clubs , or I would return from the walk to find my car had been smelted into a set of folding tubular garden furniture . |
| 5 | He half-expected to be set upon by demons — the God of the Razor , Tartu or Misquamacus — but his part in the developing story was ignored . |
| 6 | One of the more alarming aspects of these Bank Holiday disturbances was that they highlighted fierce traditions of resistance to the police in working-class neighbourhoods , so that not uncommonly policemen attempting to make street arrests would be set upon by large crowds — sometimes numbering two or three hundred people — shouting ‘ Rescue ! |
| 7 | All morning she had been watching low-slung , sharp-nosed cars complete several circuits , then draw into the pits to be set upon by swarms of mechanics and subjected to intensive fine-tuning . |
| 8 | She felt all alone ‘ Was there one who would come down to help a young girl , desperate with fear , ready to be set upon by a mob ? |
| 9 | If an error occurs within a procedure or function , the value of any PRIVATE variables will be the last value they were set to within the procedure or function which gave rise to the error . |
| 10 | Er that the fires were set at about the time that the erm er that the armoured began breaching the walls of the compound . |
| 11 | And doubtless when unarmed Republicans were set upon by the same force in Derry in 1968 you , Mr. Tully , were at home swotting up on some useless pop facts . |
| 12 | In April 1707 , when the Whig mayor and his officers attempted to levy a toll at the cornmarket after the Tories had already done so , they were set upon by an angry crowd egged on by the Tory mayor . |
| 13 | ‘ Father , we were set upon in woodland , south of Leicester . |
| 14 | Shops owned by Copts were attacked and wrecked and there were increasing instances of individual Copts being set upon in the streets . |
| 15 | A small button underneath the mouse can be pressed to reveal which channel it is set to by counting the number of times a neighbouring LED blinks . |
| 16 | The estimate ‘ on request ’ is set at about L1,000 million ( £468,000 ; $907,000 ) . |
| 17 | If the economically active population of Europe is set at about one third of the total ( very conservative ! ) , this means about 110 million people . |
| 18 | The implications of Festin in Palacio are realised in a particularly horrific version of Queen Mariana of 1963 , Perro devorando a la Reina Mariana ( Dog devouring Queen Mariana ) where she is set upon by hunting dogs who tear at her blood-red head gear ( Fig. 10 ) . |
| 19 | The dominance reduction programme was set for about a four week period , although many of the suggestion do have to be carried out longer term — or even permanently — for best results with pairs of fighting male dogs . |
| 20 | He was returning from a night out celebrating his first wage packet after nine months on the dole when he was set upon at Didcot Parkway Railway Station . |
| 21 | Mr George Daszczuk was pinned to the ground and mauled for 15 minutes as he was set upon by the two dogs , which had chewed their way through the wooden door of a garage they were guarding . |
| 22 | Walking home from his job one payday , he was set upon by two young men who hit him with a stick , pushed him to the ground and seized his meagre wages . |
| 23 | Jonas recalls : ‘ … just as the Maryland crossed the coast preparatory to landing at Luqa , it was set upon by six Messerschmitts . |
| 24 | There he was set upon by three hefty roughs . |
| 25 | Merton 's early Edinburgh appearances read as a catalogue of disasters : one year he was set upon by a gang of burly Scottish lads when seeking to compete in the poster wars engulfing the festival , and another year he was rushed to hospital after only one show , having broken a leg in an intercomedian football friendly . |
| 26 | Young women , for example , who were ‘ arm-in-arm right across the pavement , and kept pushing people off ’ , or another court report which described how ‘ a respectably-dressed young girl was set upon by four factory girls and unmercifully beaten ’ . |
| 27 | Stefan Kiszko , the man who was cleared of the murder of eleven-year-old Lesley Molseed has told how he was set upon by inmates when he first arrived in jail . |
| 28 | They decided to help after hearing how the woman , who does not want to be named , was set upon by two boys near the Red Hall estate in Darlington last week . |
| 29 | The three sprang into action after hearing how the woman , who does not want to be named , was set upon by the boys near the Red Hall estate in Darlington last week . |
| 30 | ‘ He was set upon by a police officer who simply wanted to speak to him but had no right in law and the appellant had the right to resist him , ’ said Mr Macdonald . |