Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 2 | This should have satisfied the students , but it was too little , too late ; a course of action had been set into motion which was difficult to reverse . |
| 3 | The transfer tribunal that 'll decide the fee for Nigel 's transfer from Nottingham Forest to Liverpool , has been set for July the twentieth in Walsall . |
| 4 | The transfer tribunal that 'll decide the fee for Nigel 's transfer from Nottingham Forrest to Liverpool has been set for July the twentieth in Walsall . |
| 5 | The next round-table meeting has been set for December 18 . |
| 6 | The precedent has thus been set for countries to participate in certain areas of common European interest without accepting all EEC structures and policies in their entirety . |
| 7 | His hearing has been set for March 15 . |
| 8 | No safety limits have been set for sediment contamination , but the level of lead in the North Sea was found to be 50 times greater than the global average . |
| 9 | No date has yet been set for England to tour Pakistan — or for them to return here . |
| 10 | PEACE talks between the Angolan government and the rebel Unita movement have been set for Friday and the first priority will be a ceasefire in the renewed civil war , a UN official said yesterday . |
| 11 | In the sitting room-cum-bedroom of their Darlinghurst first floor flat , the table had already been set for dinner . |
| 12 | The big pine table in the middle of the floor had been set for dinner , and on it stood a bottle of cheap wine from the village store . |
| 13 | No date had been set for pesticides to meet the MACs in Severn Trent . |
| 14 | There 's tremendous concern within the area erm at the targets that have been set for house building and in particular for er industrial space erm I think office space is now coming back into more of an equilibrium situation , but erm I 'm very pleased to see that er with these proposals as they stand , we would have no difficulties in approving their , the plan . |
| 15 | Judge Vaughn Walker has dismissed three of the surviving claims in Apple Computer Inc 's suit against Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co : Apple had originally alleged infringement in 189 elements of Windows , claiming they duplicated the look and feel of the Macintosh ; the judge has now removed the remaining three Microsoft Windows features — overlapping windows , animation of windows and icon movements — from the suit and reaffirmed his earlier decision that the jury shall apply a virtual identity standard in comparing the works as a whole ; a pre-trial conference has been set for June 28 in the suit . |
| 16 | No prices have been set for client implementations . |
| 17 | An amnesty for convicts , including 2,000 political prisoners , has been set for Tuesday . |
| 18 | After exhausting the appeals process , the final execution date — the fifth to have been set for Harris — was arranged on March 14 . |
| 19 | Sam did not answer her prayers because he was not near enough to hear them , having been set to work on the floor above , sweeping up . |
| 20 | Sam was n't privileged to meet them either as he 'd been set to work whitewashing the Barracks , which they never got around to inspecting . |
| 21 | Cell B2 has been set to percentage format with two digits after the decimal place and B4 has been set to currency . |
| 22 | Cell B2 has been set to percentage format with two digits after the decimal place and B4 has been set to currency . |
| 23 | This was because a slogan — which he himself coined — had been set to music and became a hit tune of the period : ‘ I-Scream , you scream . |
| 24 | A few weeks ago I wrote to inform your Mother and Aunts of the Death of Mr. Green 's eldest unmarried Daughter , who was the main prop of the Family , and of a plan which had been set on foot for their relief by raising a Subscription , to which I received a most kind and satisfactory reply . |
| 25 | Hair has been set on rollers to achieve loose curls . |
| 26 | He had visited the billiard room that morning and his nerves had been set on edge by the distressing scenes he had witnessed . |
| 27 | Firemen needed police support as they tackled a car in the driveway which had been set on fire . |
| 28 | But they arrived to discover the house had been set on fire by attempts to burn large quantities of ‘ literature ’ . |
| 29 | I think we 've walked past the one that 's been set on fire . |
| 30 | have been set on fire people think they 'd be better off dead . |