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Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed …
2	A speaker had been set in one of the trees , like some modernistic bird's-nest , and Sara noticed the long snaky trail of the cable connecting it with the hi-fi in the house .
3	In the tables which follow , and which illustrate the distribution of dated items first by century , and then by decade within the twentieth century , the findings of the 1969–70 and 1970–71 surveys are set alongside those of the present Call-slip analysis exercise .
4	These traditional villages are set in some of the most beautiful Austrian scenery we know .
5	The cottages are set in some of the most beautiful spots , including Snowdonia National Park , the Lake District , Brownsea Island , Dorset , and the the Fal Estuary , Cornwall .
6	Some of the keynames ( like Beep ) can only be set to one of two values , so Beep=yes means that Windows will beep every time there 's an error .
7	A word is a group of electronic components , each of which can be set into either of two states .
8	The work of internationally known directors such as Malle , Godard , and Tavernier through Besson , Annaud and Akeman will be set alongside that of a new generation like Eric Rochant , Leon Carax and Diane Kurys .
9	The picture about paid work must be set alongside that of the unpaid domestic work where the ratio of woman to man hours is reversed .
10	He emphasised the need for standards to be set by those at the top of organisations .
11	Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war .
12	Limits were set in short by both sides on what they sought to do and how they sought to do it and these limits erm were n't self-evident at the time I can tell you because the American military , the Chiefs of Staff on the Executive Committee that discussed this an and took the decisions , were all in favour of making s air strikes on these bases and possibly er an er an armed intervention and so the military advice here er was er was rather similar to that of McArthur 's , that is turn the , the crisis into er a different kind of crisis , turn it in fact into a war .
13	In one variant , manufacturing plants of each seller are designated as bases , and a ‘ base price ’ is set at each of them .
14	A Tea Garden , serving home made cakes , is set in one of the walled gardens .
15	Belle Epoque is set in 1931 at a turning point as the monarchy gave way to the republic .
16	The main headband consists of a lightweight moulded arc and a broad artificial leather strap is set within this on sliding brackets for adjusting to make the most comfortable support .
17	The age of criminal responsibility was set at ten in England and Wales by the 1963 Children and Young Persons Act .
18	when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list .
19	This ‘ school ’ was set against that of Jovellanos whose laissez-faire individualism held property to be a natural right with the market as the regulator of the economic relationships between men .