Example sentences of "[be] not set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her love was always for her people , and the quotations from her historic speeches ( which are not set to music ) represent her carefully-chosen communications to them . |
| 2 | Younger workers are not set in their ways , employers believed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The production , created by Nuria Espert , is not set at the conventional house on the hill , but in a tenement block in Nagasaki , in the post-war period . |
| 5 | This month sees the Orbit promotion headed by a new Iain M Banks novel , Against a Dark Background ( £15.99 ) , and while this is not set in the world of the Culture , the novella which gives its name to Banks ' collection of stories The States of the Art ( £5.99 ) is . |
| 6 | As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has said , the Union is not set in concrete ; it has changed over time , but , broadly speaking , we favour the current constitutional arrangements . |
| 7 | He was not setting in motion the puppets of the past to destroy them . |