Example sentences of "[adj] to [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE new poll tax for Darlington is likely to be set at a special meeting on Thursday . |
| 2 | Discuss the range of objectives likely to be set in using such activities . |
| 3 | And all to be set to her account , for she had driven him away ! |
| 4 | These targets are due to be set during negotiations for a " sulphur protocol " to be added to the UN Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution . |
| 5 | Earlier in the year Jordan had called for the homeless to be set to work on a state-run farm . |
| 6 | He half-expected to be set upon by demons — the God of the Razor , Tartu or Misquamacus — but his part in the developing story was ignored . |
| 7 | She felt all alone ‘ Was there one who would come down to help a young girl , desperate with fear , ready to be set upon by a mob ? |
| 8 | After cutting it is ready to be set in mortar to make the paved walkways ( ‘ calçadas à portuguesa ’ ) . |
| 9 | Any flimsy homesteads of clay and brushwood outside the defensive walls ( or even inside if those walls were breached ) were liable to be set on fire regularly , but their hardened inhabitants could usually manage a replacement within a few days ‘ provided we have five or six poles and boughs to cover them ’ . |
| 10 | At that time Ulthuan was rent asunder with confusion and treachery , and any messenger or scout was liable to be set upon and slain by the many factions roaming the land . |