Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead I seemed to be set at the centre of a largish halo of believable ambience . |
| 2 | The rules of the game , then , far from being set by society so as to ensure fair play for all , seemed to be set by the local authorities . |
| 3 | Several were in groups of four , three standing slabs of stone over which a fourth lay as a roof , others lay tumbled in meaningless heaps , but still others seemed to be set in distinguishable lines and circles . |
| 4 | The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal . |
| 5 | Achilles tired and veered towards the stands , seeming to some spectators to carry Pretty Polly wide , but once past she appeared to be set for victory . |
| 6 | Some limits had to be set to such claims ; and the selection of such limits , being essentially a matter of policy , was one which the legislature alone is equipped to make . |
| 7 | Looking at the total expenditure and the economic projections , ministers decided broadly and in a preliminary way what limits had to be set for spending in the next financial year ( then about nine months away ) . |
| 8 | There were also some difficulties in the supply of raw materials and a new target had to be set of 35 machine sets . |
| 9 | The simple search for a solution to deaf children 's educational needs had to be set in the broader context of the internal representation which BSL obviously offered to deaf people . |
| 10 | Well in these days your your sponges had to be set in the afternoon for the men coming in in the morning . |
| 11 | They came with fiddly switches and jumpers which had to be set by hand , arcane rituals of interrupt conflict avoidance , instructions written in terse technobabble . |
| 12 | For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes . |