Example sentences of "[been] set [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central section of the courtyard of the Alte post had been set with a three-sided arrangement of trestle tables for a party of thirty and now they began to arrive . |
| 2 | Her place had been set with a wreath of holly , adorned with a place card on which Richard had laboriously written ‘ Miss Abbitt ’ in scarlet ink with a liberal spattering of blots . |
| 3 | So we are well on the way to achieving the recruitment targets that have been set with a view to making the decision as effective as possible . |
| 4 | GCC Interior Ministers met in Kuwait on Nov. 21 and 22 , and Finance Ministers met on Nov. 22 but apparently failed to make progress on proposals for a customs union — a step towards creation of a common market by the year 2000 which had been set as an objective earlier in the year [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 5 | She stooped down to drink where a stone had been set for a firm landing beside a foot-wide pool . |
| 6 | A date has now been set for a Circuit Court Hearing in June of 1993 , almost two years since the date of his dismissal . |
| 7 | It was understood that this concealed differences among EC partners , with France arguing for an EC-Iraq meeting irrespective of the position regarding US-Iraqi contacts , and Italy and Spain prepared to endorse a meeting with Tariq Aziz provided that an eventual date had been set for a Bush-Aziz meeting . |
| 8 | Both sides in the 15-year civil war , the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government and the United States-backed National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , blamed the other , and no date appeared to have been set for a resumption . |
| 9 | On the top terrace was a line of cypress leylandii trees , quite small as yet , eight rhododendron bushes — obviously fairly recent plantings , and on ground level a grinding stone four feet across which had been set on a granite plinth and made into a table with slate seats supported on bricks at right angles to it . |
| 10 | Within the UK the threshold has been set at a level of £135,000 , above which any business supplying or acquiring goods will have to complete this form on a monthly basis . |
| 11 | On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level . |
| 12 | The stake had been set at a silver thruppence — a thruppence which ( Louisa remembered smiling now ) she had never seen , for the afternoon had ended in disaster . |
| 13 | Shareholders will benefit because the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative has been set at a level which is 50 per cent higher than the recommended final cash dividend . |
| 14 | He said that capping levels had been set at a devastatingly harsh level and fairness was completely absent from the settlement . |
| 15 | For the same reason these last two chairs are not turned to face the rest of the group : they have been set at an angle , obliquely oriented towards the open-work balustrade and the hillside opposite . |
| 16 | Had the survey been set within an authority ( like Oxfordshire , the West Riding of Yorkshire or Berkshire ) where progressive methods had been longer practised , the findings might well have been radically different . |
| 17 | Meanwhile figures for Oxfordshire 's council tax have also been set after a meeting which lasted into the early hours of this morning |
| 18 | The play had been set in a military hospital in England in 1944 . |
| 19 | A Bible passage that I sometimes imagine might have been set in a school playground ( or assembly hall ) is found in Matthew 9:37–38 . |
| 20 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 21 | The argument for a more comprehensive approach to work organization has been set in a new context by developments in product markets , trading conditions and manufacturing technology in the 1980s . |
| 22 | A table for two had been set in a sort of bower beneath a canopy of spreading palms . |
| 23 | Number twos tend therefore to be passed over ( except for the top job in America , for which agreeably relaxed standards of industry have been set by a recent incumbent ) . |
| 24 | This barn owl 's broken wing had been set by a vet who kept it in a cat cage for a week or two so that it could rest . |
| 25 | It was said that one of our very junior officers , with more enthusiasm than judgement , had been setting about a smuggler with the help of a dinghy oar when the " smuggler " yelled , " Stop it you silly b … , |