Example sentences of "[be] set on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hair has been set on rollers to achieve loose curls . |
| 3 | He had visited the billiard room that morning and his nerves had been set on edge by the distressing scenes he had witnessed . |
| 4 | Firemen needed police support as they tackled a car in the driveway which had been set on fire . |
| 5 | But they arrived to discover the house had been set on fire by attempts to burn large quantities of ‘ literature ’ . |
| 6 | I think we 've walked past the one that 's been set on fire . |
| 7 | have been set on fire people think they 'd be better off dead . |
| 8 | Trax has been set on forestry commision land near Cinderford . |
| 9 | We sit on wooden boxes round the heavy tables with their curling iron legs , and because the lollies are set on sticks splintered from firewood you sometimes get a skelf in your mouth as you suck , intent on the Lone Ranger . |
| 10 | What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel : ‘ The fathers eat sour grapes , and the children 's teeth are set on edge ’ ? |
| 11 | The visiting of the iniquity of their fathers on to succeeding generations in the Third Commandment , the banning of ‘ he that hath a flat nose ’ , and the writing ‘ the fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children 's teeth are set on edge ’ are suggestive of the stigmata of congenital syphilis . |
| 12 | ‘ An ’ the bastard even went on to confirm that the bombs are set on time fuses , just sufficient to allow him an' his staff to escape , but not enough to allow them to be de-activated , or to evacuate the ordinary members from the building … an' most of them are just kids . ’ |
| 13 | The price of shares in the company , which is the largest ports operation in Scotland , will be set on March 12 . |
| 14 | ‘ The fathers have eaten sour grapes , and the children 's teeth shall be set on edge . ’ |
| 15 | The Government propose to Brussels that the same upper limits be set on dosages of dietary supplements for ordinary consumers buying off the shelves as for professional practitioners of alternative medicine , even though such practitioners may have good reasons for recommending higher doses to their patients . |
| 16 | No ceiling was to be set on prices , except for essentials such as milk , bread , transport , communications and fuel , whose rise in price would be controlled by the government . |
| 17 | The number of shares and offer price will be set on June 8 to raise £10m , according to the pathfinder prospectus issued today . |
| 18 | By the end of the year , Mrs Thatcher was in the chair of a new cabinet committee , Misc. 141 , which had been given the task of preparing for the fast-approaching day when limits would be set on greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 19 | Any flimsy homesteads of clay and brushwood outside the defensive walls ( or even inside if those walls were breached ) were liable to be set on fire regularly , but their hardened inhabitants could usually manage a replacement within a few days ‘ provided we have five or six poles and boughs to cover them ’ . |
| 20 | Bathing , for instance , had to be forbidden along the fashionable coastline ; some ecologists even suggested that Estonian drinking water was so polluted it could be set on fire ! |
| 21 | I want to take you in my arms and kiss you and — ’ He looked to the side to where two people were approaching ; then dropping her hands , he said on a laugh , ‘ I 've only to be seen doing that in public , even holding your hands , and the place would be set on fire . |
| 22 | Her sights were set on Africa and the wider horizons she hoped would be possible after her tropical studies . |
| 23 | Astonishingly ornate decorations which were set on top of the yokes of working oxen , for example , in the form of painted wooden ‘ towers ’ anything up to two feet high , partly hollowed out and fitted with small bells . |
| 24 | The exchange rates with the US dollar were set on May 10 at US$1.00=12 rials=0.461 dinars . |
| 25 | Two passenger cars were set on fire outside the Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 26 | In other instances we read that museum collections were set on fire . |
| 27 | Teachers ' houses and school buildings were set on fire or bombed in an attempt to intimidate ANDES members ; in the right-wing press , ANDES was accused of fomenting subversion and Communism : |
| 28 | In September of that year " many Army and church buildings were set on fire . |
| 29 | Forests were set on fire … |
| 30 | Police clashed with steel workers in Guayana City , where two people were wounded , and with students in San Félix , where seven people were wounded , 50 were arrested and buses were set on fire . |