Example sentences of "[adj] [be] set [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the verses were in fact small poems , and some were set to music . |
| 2 | This is set in Ulster and sets out to depict ordinary people getting on with their lives . |
| 3 | I understand that an essential site survey has not yet been undertaken , and would ask that this be set in hand immediately . |
| 4 | WHAT Saturn glues together , Pluto and Uranus may attempt to sunder — in other words , as much as one situation refuses to budge another is set for blast off . |
| 5 | After discussion this was set at £2 a head for the weekend . |
| 6 | An influx of bright youngtalent was set to work under a dashing editor , Falklands hero Max Hastings , who occasionally took an independent , anti-government line . |
| 7 | The first was largely devoted to a wedding , the second was set in Vietnam , and the third mostly back in America . |
| 8 | The house of Neill & Co. had patented their own , and since this was one of the offices that most whole-heartedly recruited women , a number of the women compositors at Neill 's in the 1870s were set to work the machines . |
| 9 | These were set in motion once fighting began and were kept in effect despite falls in prices . |
| 10 | When the spreading cotton manufacture extended similar opportunities , Arthur Young wrote of Manchester : " large families in this place are no incumbrance ; all are set to work " . |
| 11 | Eventually all is set for Culkin , now holed up in his uncle 's deserted townhouse , to wire the rooms , set traps on the stairs , gather inflammable materials and treat Pesci and Stern to a far more violent onslaught than was executed in Home Alone 1 . |
| 12 | Tuition for 1990/91 is set as NOK 50,000 ( approx . |
| 13 | XWorld ‘ 93 is set for March 8–11 at the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York City . |
| 14 | NetWorld ‘ 93 is set for January 12–14 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston , followed by NetWorld ‘ 93 Europe May 25–27 at the Frankfurt Messe in Germany . |
| 15 | All was set for Innocent 's arbitration . |
| 16 | In agricultural districts school attendance registers showed poor attendance at harvest time when girls of ten or eleven were set to work picking up stones in the fields . |
| 17 | Manzoni was born , in 1785 , near Lake Como and The Betrothed is set near Lecco on the eastern arm of that lake . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough 's original poll tax for 1992–93 was set at £353 and Langbaurgh 's was £376 . |
| 19 | Autodesk Inc , Sausalito , California has decided that IBM Corp 's Cadam Inc computer-aided design software base is ripe for plundering , and is developing two Cadam-emulation products , Aemulus and Aemulus(mf) , which are now in alpha test : the products , which offer a Cadam-like user interface and bi-directional compatibility with Cadam files , are also compatible with AutoCAD Release 12 ; Aemulus is an AutoCAD Development System application with a Cadam-like graphics interface and command set and enables customers to edit existing Cadam models or create new Cadam-compatible models on the desktop ; Aemulus(mf) is a mainframe-resident program that enables customers to quickly and completely convert Cadam two-dimensional Interactive Drawing files to DXF files or vice versa ; both are set for shipment in May 1993 but pricing has not yet been decided ; the company also says that it is expanding its product line beyond the drafting portion of the design spectrum it has traditionally occupied to cover the entire spectrum from conceptualisation to manufacturing , and that as a first step its three top-selling drafting and design packages , AutoCAD , Generic CADD and AutoSketch , have been brought together under one organisational umbrella , and are being precisely defined and clarified in terms of their relationship to each other ; development is under way to enable the three products to work together and share files across networks . |
| 20 | It was revealed that bilateral trade had increased by 3 per cent in 1989 over the previous year , and the aggregate target figure for bilateral trade in 1990 was set at $6,200 million . |
| 21 | In response to higher than expected government revenue in 1989 , as a result of an increase in the value of exports , especially oil , projected revenue for 1990 was set at naira 47,657million ( US$1.00=N 7.6627 as at Jan. 8 , 1990 ) , of which N 38,628 million was expected to come from crude oil export ( based on a estimated price of US$16 per barrel ) and N 9,029 million from non-oil sources . |