Example sentences of "[been] [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ This part of the Health Secretary 's speech would have been better set to some wailing violins . |
| 2 | Spending levels had been already set by democratically agreed initiatives ( such as Proposition 98 , which guaranteed that 40.3 per cent of state outlays be spent on schools ) , federal rules and court decisions . |
| 3 | He took her arm and led her to the dining room , where the gleaming long rectangular table had been impeccably set for two . |
| 4 | Demolition charges had also been carefully set on machinery in the fish meal and other factories ; these small charges of gun cotton being placed so that they destroyed equipment without the risk of causing needless casualties . |
| 5 | An inquest into Mr Wilkinson 's death has been provisionally set for September . |
| 6 | The implementation of the Syrian-backed strategy ( itself part of the wider Taif 1989 accord — see p. 36986 ) had been fully set in motion on Oct. 13 when Syrian and Lebanese Army troops finally removed Gen. Michel Aoun from his East Beirut stronghold [ see pp. 37792 ] . |
| 7 | ( 4 ) obtaining familiarity with the types of question which have been consistently set in the past , and making a tentative guess at the likely questions for your examination . |
| 8 | The racial mixture was soon to be sharpened , as the mid-century railway boom got under way , by new waves of immigrants from Ireland , the Forest of Dean , Herefordshire , and Somerset , but already the social , political , and religious pattern of the new South Wales and the eastern valleys of Monmouthshire had been firmly set for another century . |