Example sentences of "be set [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the decisive end of an imagination whose bounds had been set wider and wider , the doom of the crystal palaces of the rails , the ferrovitreous stables of the champing iron horses . |
| 2 | Under the scheme , each branch has been set two targets in the current quarter . |
| 3 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 4 | A government spokesman said 59 post offices , 53 other buildings , 75 vehicles and a rubber factory had been set ablaze since security forces stopped searches , ambushes and raids against the People 's Liberation Front ( JVP ) last Wednesday . |
| 5 | All of Kuwait 's 950 producing oil wells were reported to have been set ablaze or damaged . |
| 6 | For the sake of clarity the ascending-node longitudes have all been set equal to each other , though within each group they are in any case much the same . |
| 7 | ‘ Mister Morris , you 've been set free then ? ’ |
| 8 | Once Edward Morris had been set free , he had recommended her to some of his friends and so trade was looking up . |
| 9 | Nine hostages had been set free since John was taken . |
| 10 | Three soccer fans accused of using forged banknotes have been set free by a judge in Turkey , and inflation 's dropped to its lowest level in thirty years . |
| 11 | ‘ I was brought up here by your soldiers and now we have been set free . |
| 12 | Beatriz Villamizar , one of the journalists , was reported to have been set free by the cartel in the capital Bogotá on Feb. 5 . |
| 13 | Elinor twisted and swayed and twirled , her blue eyes blazing , the wick having been set afire by Aunt Bedelia . |
| 14 | By then Glamorgan were in a mess at 16–3 having been set 427 to win . |
| 15 | The action was alleged to have been initiated around Jan. 22 , at about the same time as other Kuwaiti oil wells and storage tanks had been set alight in an apparent attempt to disrupt the allied air campaign . |
| 16 | The building had been set alight by the killer . |
| 17 | But it 's the first time a cell has been set alight since the brand new modern jail was opened . |
| 18 | John Seer , who 's Fire Protection Officer at Oxfordshire 's Fire Brigade , says had the dump been set alight it could have endangered life . |
| 19 | flag indicating whether automatic DC assessment has been set TRUE or FALSE for the module ( packages only ) |
| 20 | The total supply of labour is shown by the distance on the horizontal axis ; if initially there is an efficient allocation of resources , then O r L o labour is in locality R and O s L o is in locality S. At this point the marginal products of labour are identical at point 1 in the two localities ( assuming that wages are set equal to marginal value product ) . |
| 21 | In this sense prices in period t are sticky : they are set one period in advance and are then unresponsive to the level of demand which actually occurs in period t . |
| 22 | Note that the relative signs of the spatial components with respect to the time component are set negative , so that in the limit of zero mass eqn ( 4.10 ) reduces to the Minkowski metric equation of SR : . |
| 23 | On the four main axes are set four large octagonal chapels , each with towers , while at the angles between these are four smaller polygonal chapels . |
| 24 | It follows that applicants wishing to combine two popular fields are set stiffer conditions ( e.g. psychology with English BCC ) , while lower grades are asked of those choosing a popular and a less popular one ( e.g. psychology with chemistry DDD ) . |
| 25 | The vineyards of Bisseuil are set some distance back from the village and grow at a height of about 160 metres on the south-east-facing slopes of Mont Aigu , which forms the eastern side of the Val d'Or in which Avenay is located . |
| 26 | and nature of Man — of convincing one 's nerves that the world is full of Misery and Heartbreak , Pain , Sickness and oppression — whereby this Chamber of Maiden-Thought becomes gradually darkened and at the same time on all sides of it many doors are set open — but all dark — all leading to dark passages . |
| 27 | These are set three years ahead . |
| 28 | Those who have learnt to accept their difficulties without the glimmer of hope are set free . |
| 29 | Of the latest case , she said : ‘ It is bad enough when justice is made a mockery of with light sentences , or when abusers are set free . |
| 30 | There are all sorts of people involved and the various underground factions , that maybe that one has , er as , probably as an afterthought er considered that , that maybe money in the release of any Western hostages , that may be where the story has come from , but certainly from the informed sources , and the , the , er certainly on the evidence of past hostages releases , er we would n't really have expected that er ransom would be demanded , obviously we have to wait and see when er , when the hostages are set free . |