Example sentences of "[noun pl] be set [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Volkswagen has seized an investment opportunity by buying Skoda , and other Western car manufacturers are setting up Western-style dealerships .
2 Already , 156 hospitals have left the NHS since trusts were set up two years ago .
3 Even more radically , a number of trail-blazing organisations are setting up self-managed work groups , some of them leaderless .
4 The technique in the experiments is to set up two photo-detectors on either side of the calcium or mercury source , preceded immediately by polarisers that allow through only those photons polarised in one direction ( Figure 1a ) .
5 During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London .
6 With increasing age , strength , and experience , most of them probably inherit a vacated range , take one over , or succeed in establishing a new community where younger females are setting up new ranges .
7 POLICE are setting up special no-go areas to carnival revellers in a bid to protect frightened shopkeepers and residents — many o f them Asian — at a carnival next weekend .
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