Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : If I be set upon a wrong thing you must not dispute with me but do it and expostulate afterwards . |
| 3 | The titles you choose for essays you devise yourself can , if you want them to , be made closely to resemble the sorts of questions you are set as prescribed essays or in exams . |
| 4 | ‘ So you are set on it , then , ’ Guillamon said heavily . |
| 5 | With a monochrome viewfinder. use ‘ auto ’ or remember to check that you are set to the correct preset . |
| 6 | Animal traps dangerous to you are set in this area . |
| 7 | So when you 're setting about setting up an evaluation project you consider it very important to get the co-operation of the teachers and staff involved . |
| 8 | ‘ Because you 're set on a course of self-destruction , that 's why , Lizzy . ’ |
| 9 | If you 're set on it , we 'll go to Gamages . ’ |
| 10 | If you 're set on getting a cordless mouse Logitech 's contender must be seriously considered . |
| 11 | You were set on a different road : you could even become — who knows ? — a schoolteacher . |
| 12 | I thought the two of you were set to — ‘ Angalo began . |
| 13 | Now she 's set for a quiet life |
| 14 | ‘ She 's set against them you know … and all because they work to abolish the slave trade . |
| 15 | At 21 she is set for stardom , but she still finds time for people who have fallen on hard times . |
| 16 | The implications of Festin in Palacio are realised in a particularly horrific version of Queen Mariana of 1963 , Perro devorando a la Reina Mariana ( Dog devouring Queen Mariana ) where she is set upon by hunting dogs who tear at her blood-red head gear ( Fig. 10 ) . |
| 17 | And she was set on her mission of kindness . |
| 18 | But as more unwanted probings prodded , she was set to seriously wonder if indeed it was good enough to have called at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and left it at that . |
| 19 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 20 | Julie Jones was taking five-month-old Steffine to her grandmother 's house when she was set upon by a gang of four men . |
| 21 | Halifax have made some great buys and we are set for a successful season . ’ |
| 22 | But er you can , I mean we 've got , of course I 'm not too young myself but er we are set in our ways . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're set for the end of the century , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't look much further than that , can you ? ’ |
| 24 | What targets should we be setting for improvements ? |
| 25 | In other words , we were set for a few laughs . |
| 26 | As John Major when Chancellor told the British Chambers of Commerce at the end of 1989 , we were set for ‘ a difficult year but a promising decade ’ . |
| 27 | We were set against ( the Canadian Authors ' Association ) poetry and maple syrup ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Father , we were set upon in woodland , south of Leicester . |
| 29 | At low capacity , prices will frequently be high since they are set on the vertical part of the short-run marginal cost curves . |
| 30 | When the facts or events I mentioned above are put together in sequence , and when they are set into the background of recent developments , then a different and far more worrying interpretation begins to appear . |