Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] set for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Shetland Islands , the most northerly part of the United Kingdom at sixty degrees north , lie well south the true Arctic , but still far enough north that in midsummer the sun only sets for an hour or two . |
| 2 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 3 | It was the sort of pit once set for tigers , with stakes on the floor on which you got impaled if ever you fell in . |
| 4 | ( March 10 was the date already set for the dissolution of Parliament in advance of the general election . ) |
| 5 | In an address to the country on Nov. 10 , President José Eduardo Dos Santos announced that a general election would take place on a date provisionally set for the second half of September 1992 and that consultations would continue with political parties and organizations on a firm date . |
| 6 | When Rose saw the table already set for morning , she said , ‘ If you were around for too long I 'd be spoiled rotten . |