Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] set on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brains themselves only need the lightest poaching for a quarter of an hour before being lifted out of the court-bouillon and set on the beds of lettuce . |
| 2 | Worshippers arrived at the temple in Ealing , west London , to find the doors had been soaked in petrol and set on fire . |
| 3 | The meat is then replaced into the oven and set on combi-steaming for the rest of the cooking time . |
| 4 | EACH HAD BEEN IN A BOMBING , ROBBERY OR OTHER CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND SET ON FIRE TO REMOVE FINGERPRINTS . |
| 5 | Most social and political theories formulated in the period immediately after the Second World War tended to view the industrialised societies of the West as set on a path of continuous economic and social development . |
| 6 | Big osier ones , flat , that you could crook over your arm or set on the ground . |
| 7 | The objective of this special orientation , and similar arrangements in several other Mesoamerican cities , were the points on the horizon where the Sun rose and set on the day it passed directly overhead . |