Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the sort of pit once set for tigers , with stakes on the floor on which you got impaled if ever you fell in . |
| 2 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 3 | His delegates in France immediately set to work to nominate these regional administrators . |
| 4 | In ‘ random mode ’ , the time controller will switch an appliance on and off at random intervals during the four ON periods already set for the programme mode . |
| 5 | Reference can be made to standards usually set by the agency ‘ in cases of this kind ’ , or attention drawn to practice in past cases . |