Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] set [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was struggling to set a mouse-trap . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , I 'm a bit cynical about great conferences , they 're important if you 're trying to set a tone , and they 're important if you want the press and the media involved , but actually it 's a smaller fora on the local basis , which actually produces much better results , in my opinion , but that 's the sort of thing I have in mind . |
| 3 | it on the basis that there 's a sort of uniformity and that we 're trying to set a |
| 4 | The others will chip in if they agree , but they will they are , they are wanting to set a missile to move , they 're wanting to send a bullet , they are wanting to s to evoke emotion or anger or rage or frustration or political bias or to change attitudes now for example the interesting thing about the Princess Diana erm the headline on one of those tabloids which talks about exile is I suspect that they want to evoke the constitutional crisis which there was at the time of |
| 5 | Once this has been done , it is hoped to set a second study in motion to consider the possibility of using expert systems to guide the personnel who do the actual licensing through the maze of rules and regulations that they have to consider . |
| 6 | Redmond , Washington-based Microsoft Corp does not want to see any part of the digital automation process that is not touched by Windows , and the company has developed a specification for computer integrated telephony for the MS-DOS personal computer , with which , needless to say , it is aiming to set the industry-standard . |
| 7 | ‘ Until he was called to set a bone in the back of the Queen of Denmark , ’ she said . |
| 8 | He was expected to set an example in knightly exercises , and to show a personal example of prowess in war , although he and his enemies were sufficiently prudent to value him more highly alive than dead , so that a crowned king was rarely killed in battle . |
| 9 | What he said at the Tory Party Conference last year was that he was going to set the agenda ; the environmental agenda for the nineties . |