Example sentences of "[noun pl] be set [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And I say that because as Mr touched on in his introduction , the West Yorkshire districts are set a methodology for the definition of their housing requirement , buy R P G two .
2 Victoria 's genius in the Tenbrae Responses is to set the text to music of simple strength , built on memorable melodic lines in which the text often receives one note per syllable .
3 if , if Freud 's theory of the group is correct , that it 's centred on the leader playing the super role then the presumably the leader could exhort members of the group to act better than they normally would , because after all one of the super leader 's functions is to set the goals for the ego and to give the the goal , the ego something to aspire to so er and as Joy mentioned in her papers and I 'm trying to remind you of , y you , you said that quoting Freud if you recall that , that , that Freud says and I think he , he , he repeats this from the also made the same observation that in a group or a crowd people can act a lot worse than they normally would , they can be more destructive , primitive erm and er more governed by their erm base emotions as it were , but equally in a crowd people can act better than they normally would .
4 An hour before games were due to begin , the club was plunged into darkness by a major fault at the local sub-station , just as officials were setting the stage for the event .
5 Some federal government agencies are setting an example : the Energy Department and the General Services Administration are scheduled to take delivery next year of 50 Chrysler minivans which will run on compressed natural gas .
6 Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents .
7 Teams representing a cross-section of housing interests were set the task of building a sandy estate incorporating a housing mix of family and old folks ' homes .
8 In front of the hut , several mothers were setting a trestle table with crockery and unwrapping polite little sandwiches .
9 The Americans were setting the pace .
10 Environmental issues are setting the agenda for the future of the household cleaning and care product market in Europe , but , according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan , some manufacturers and retailers have failed to exploit this in their marketing initiatives .
11 Between the archers were set the formations of pikemen and swordsmen .
12 Following a presentation given by Group environmental manager Jon Lawrence the children were set a questionnaire and asked to design a poster and come up with a project to help safeguard the environment .
13 Much of the Unit 's current work is involved in setting , checking , distributing and marking the examination papers : almost 1100 different papers are set every year .
14 ON MONDAY , the second day of the Marui Pipeline Masters , the waves were glassy and tubular and the local hotshots were setting the pace .
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