Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because you 're set on a course of self-destruction , that 's why , Lizzy . ’ |
| 2 | They 're set into a set combination . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're set for the end of the century , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't look much further than that , can you ? ’ |
| 4 | Tonight they 're setting up a road check in the area where he was murdered . |
| 5 | The central section of the courtyard of the Alte post had been set with a three-sided arrangement of trestle tables for a party of thirty and now they began to arrive . |
| 6 | Her place had been set with a wreath of holly , adorned with a place card on which Richard had laboriously written ‘ Miss Abbitt ’ in scarlet ink with a liberal spattering of blots . |
| 7 | So we are well on the way to achieving the recruitment targets that have been set with a view to making the decision as effective as possible . |
| 8 | The historical precedent for the summit had been set with the UN Conference on Human Environment , held in Stockholm , Sweden , in June 1972 [ see pp. 25476-79 ] . |
| 9 | Origins of the summit The historical precedent for the summit had been set with the UN Conference on Human Environment , held in Stockholm , Sweden , in June 1972 . |
| 10 | GCC Interior Ministers met in Kuwait on Nov. 21 and 22 , and Finance Ministers met on Nov. 22 but apparently failed to make progress on proposals for a customs union — a step towards creation of a common market by the year 2000 which had been set as an objective earlier in the year [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 11 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 12 | The Council of Ministers announced on March 7 that June 12 had been set as the date for multiparty local and provincial elections ( to the assemblées populaires communales and the assemblées populaires de wilayas ) , postponed from December 1989 and then again from March 1990 [ see p. 37218 ] to allow more time for newly-created political parties to prepare their campaigns . |
| 13 | He is convinced the necessary seven member states whichever they may be can still meet the criteria for economic convergence which has been set as the minimum to permit a single currency in a majority of member states . |
| 14 | Pile the melon balls into the centre of the mousse if they have not been set into the mixture . |
| 15 | There was curling , ornate moulding around the tops of the windows and coats of arms had been set into the metal work of the huge wrought-iron gate . |
| 16 | Rule 4 A hard copy of the module version exists if the requirement for hard copying prior to module deletion has been set via the MINTEG keyword in the LIFESPAN configuration file . |
| 17 | She stooped down to drink where a stone had been set for a firm landing beside a foot-wide pool . |
| 18 | A date has now been set for a Circuit Court Hearing in June of 1993 , almost two years since the date of his dismissal . |
| 19 | It was understood that this concealed differences among EC partners , with France arguing for an EC-Iraq meeting irrespective of the position regarding US-Iraqi contacts , and Italy and Spain prepared to endorse a meeting with Tariq Aziz provided that an eventual date had been set for a Bush-Aziz meeting . |
| 20 | Both sides in the 15-year civil war , the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government and the United States-backed National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , blamed the other , and no date appeared to have been set for a resumption . |
| 21 | And no time limit has been set for the congress , simply because no one knows how long it will last and how it will end . |
| 22 | A £2,000,000 target had been set for the Battle of Britain Wings Appeal in the full knowledge that our sister charity , the RAF Benevolent Fund was launching its £20,000,000 ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal , and that the Association would be offering as much support as possible to that . |
| 23 | No firm date has yet been set for the launch of the Trust and it has yet to be decided exactly how it will operate . |
| 24 | A low price — in Japan — of $15,200 has been set for the desktop models , which have a 256-colour thin-film transistor screens , and have a 50% smaller footprint than previous models . |
| 25 | Either an early access or a general availability announcement has been set for the third quarter of 1993 , three to six months before OSF . |
| 26 | No date has been set for the launch of the agency , which will depend on the setting up of a continent-wide computer network . |
| 27 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 28 | A negative external financing limit of £66 million has been set for the Post Office for the year 1992-93 . |
| 29 | By the end of October , no date had been set for the election . |
| 30 | But before anyone starts packing their bags , no date has yet been set for the trips . |