Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] set a " in BNC.

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1 Against this version of criticism of law is set a vision of another mechanism of dispute resolution which is cosy and friendly , in which there are no winners and losers .
2 Now organiser Belfast City Council is setting a target of 110,000 participants for the challenge against Rostock .
3 If , however , a group is set an ambiguous task with an uncertain outcome and with little previous experience to draw on it is unlikely to succeed unless it operates as a team at the skilful level .
4 Each authority is set a ‘ grant related expenditure assessment ’ ( GREA ) based on computation by the Department of the Environment of how much each authority needs to spend to achieve a common level of services with other authorities of the same type .
5 The second objective is to set an agenda for discussions ( in a seminar or workshop ) which will facilitate collaboration between existing bibliographic agencies and to suggest new means for the collection of data on African scholarship so that it might be more widely known .
6 There has also been criticism of members of my family for behaviour which was judged to be unseemly for people whose responsibility is to set a good example .
7 Win or lose , the important thing for Vicini is to set an example of calmness to his side , to remove some of the pressure of the nation 's extravagant expectations .
8 Win or lose , the important thing for Vicini is to set an example of calmness to his side , to remove some of the pressure of the nation 's extravagant expectations .
9 Here the solution is to set a long net around the thicket so that it is totally surrounded and enclosed , in the hope that the rabbits can be bolted out and entangled in the net .
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