Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] set out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when the regulations came to be made , the government maintained that the policy which had been set out during the passage of the Bill through the House was unworkable . |
| 2 | Most of the books that had been set out on the last delivery had gone , and now more volumes were being added . |
| 3 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
| 4 | In the sunken garden , orange snapdragons and pink asters , raised in the sheltered nursery beds , had been set out in lurid masses . |
| 5 | Once the topics had been set out in an order which would make sense to the recipients ( in this case of a postal questionnaire ) then the questions could be worked out . |
| 6 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 7 | The second task was to stand on some planks of wood which had been set out in a hexagon . |
| 8 | The recommendations had been set out in the Commission 's interim report published in May . |