Example sentences of "[pers pn] be set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew that I was playing with fire ’ , he confessed ; ‘ I ran the risk , and if I were set free I would still do the same . ’ |
| 2 | In Israel if you got in debt you made yourself a voluntary slave for six years to the person you owed money to , a form of community service , and then you were set free after six years and your debts cancelled and you were given a new start in life . |
| 3 | But she was set free as a report was prepared for the Irish Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 4 | The only difference is that we are setting that fact out clearly in the rules so that people know . |
| 5 | ‘ Complaints from customers have actually gone up and we are setting specific quality objectives for the coming year , with technical programmes and systems to achieve them , ’ said operations manager . |
| 6 | Wigan chairman Stephen Gage said : ‘ Kenny is a very ambitious young man and I 'm confident we are set fair for a good recovery . ’ |
| 7 | We were set different tasks to do eg getting across an area of grass which had poison on it . |
| 8 | When we got to University of East Anglia we were set seven tasks . |
| 9 | In this sense prices in period t are sticky : they are set one period in advance and are then unresponsive to the level of demand which actually occurs in period t . |
| 10 | By the fifth and sixth centuries they were set adjacent to larger churches , usually in the atrium facing the narthex . |
| 11 | It was from this hippodrome that the four horses now on the façade of S. Mark 's Cathedral in Venice were originally taken ; they were set high above the track in Istanbul . |
| 12 | I mean it 's to set this up , it 's about maths |
| 13 | For a moment I wonder if he 's set all this up to sharpen our reactions and test us out , but I know it 's not that . |
| 14 | The city 's Friedrich-Wilhelm Universität was founded only after Baron von Stein 's reforms in 1810 , yet by 1870 it was setting international standards in history , classics , physics , chemistry , and medicine . |
| 15 | Its financing was switched from levies on member states to the Community 's own resources , and it was set two broad objectives : firstly , to facilitate the employment adjustment resulting from Community policies , and secondly , to help overcome the structural problems experienced by certain regions or target groups , i.e. migrant workers , young job-seekers , women and the handicapped . |
| 16 | When the procession , which had now picked up a large following , reached Grassgill End the effigy was placed on a small stone area at the roadside , its clothes were drenched with paraffin and it was set alight . |
| 17 | A HINDU temple became the latest target for religious violence yesterday when it was set alight in the early hours . |