Example sentences of "[pron] be set on [art] " in BNC.

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1 My own feeling is that there is a great similarity and that there is a a base salary normally which is set on a competitive level with a target as in this case perhaps at the mid-point , perhaps at the sixty percent level or whatever it would be and that a significant uplift in compensation can be obtained by a bonus scheme , if the performance of the company as measured in earnings per share , return on capital , return on equity or any m other measure if those objectives are met .
2 I went outside and stood in front of the police station , which was set on a hill .
3 ‘ Because you 're set on a course of self-destruction , that 's why , Lizzy . ’
4 You were set on a different road : you could even become — who knows ? — a schoolteacher .
5 At low capacity , prices will frequently be high since they are set on the vertical part of the short-run marginal cost curves .
6 It is set on a platform reached by seventy-four basalt steps , and its tall twin white towers , set each side of the main doorway , make it a landmark from Funchal way below .
7 Boasting easy access to the hinterland for those who wish to explore , about ten minutes walk from the centre of the city itself and around 50 yards from the sea and sand of the beach , it is set on a corner location .
8 This is called the fill light , and it is set on the other side of the camera to reduce the depth of the shadows and to soften the modelling of the subject .
9 The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard .
10 It was set on the Potomac near Washington D C which , like Malmesbury in our civil war , changed hands several times during the American one .
11 She had a leather suitcase which bore the remains of labels from pre-war Oriental hotels , a hatbox and an immense carpet bag which sighed out little puffs of dust every time it was set on the ground .
12 Whatever his standing with Catholics ( and for a short time it was high ) , he was set on a collision course with the representatives of traditional unionism and with no representative more so than Ian R. K. Paisley .
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