Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] be set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If using QFE , make certain that this is set before starting the final turn . |
| 3 | I understand that an essential site survey has not yet been undertaken , and would ask that this be set in hand immediately . |
| 4 | Many of the verses were in fact small poems , and some were set to music . |
| 5 | If clarification requests are divided into just two categories , potential ( being those categories where the listener actively contributes to the negotiation by introducing new information ) , and simple ( the remaining categories ) , and these are set against the number of inadequate messages produced , a number of interesting findings emerges . |
| 6 | The old lady died and within weeks they 'd decided to get married ; they started furnishing the rooms over the shop and all was set for a wedding . ’ |
| 7 | There is a major concern with the specifics of ministerial formation , but this is set within the department 's broader interests and is treated in a soundly academic fashion as in the other forms of professional preparation offered in the University . |
| 8 | Keegan rested new signings Barry Venison , Paul Bracewell and John Beresford and striker David Kelly but all are set for a place in Saturday 's line-up . |
| 9 | And the disingenuous becomes invidious when this is set against an attempt to locate blame for economic dislocation on its victims , cast inner city residents as ‘ a poor social mix ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p19 ) , and offer instead a radical recasting of multi-national capital as the means of saving the inner cities . |
| 10 | Although the holding of outside appointments such as consultancies must be approved by faculty boards , no limit as such is set on the amount of money individuals may receive in this way . |