Example sentences of "be setting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight they 're setting up a road check in the area where he was murdered . |
| 2 | So when you 're setting about setting up an evaluation project you consider it very important to get the co-operation of the teachers and staff involved . |
| 3 | What targets should we be setting for improvements ? |
| 4 | Machicolations , usually regarded as a sign of nobility , had their practical value in that they permitted vertical defence against those who might have reached the dead ground near a wall , and might be setting about digging or mining under it . |
| 5 | Was this was ‘ a good example to be setting to the Chinese Government ’ ? |
| 6 | If you do nothing about those feelings , the recipient will probably be totally unaware of them ; if you translate them into action , you may well be setting in motion a train of events which will cause harm and destruction , bringing as much grief to yourself as to the object of your ill-will . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps while the Trees were setting about Balor . |
| 8 | It was said that one of our very junior officers , with more enthusiasm than judgement , had been setting about a smuggler with the help of a dinghy oar when the " smuggler " yelled , " Stop it you silly b … , |
| 9 | Down in dumps A GROUP of young people from Northern Ireland are setting off this week on a trip to one of the world 's poorest regions . |
| 10 | We now are setting into motion a new system , whereby the PAs to the Head of Groups/Sectors keep copies of the Christian Aid self-certificate form and should ensure that as soon as a member of staff returns from their sick leave they fill it in . |
| 11 | Like its predecessors , it is structured around a simple thesis — in this case , that information and knowledge are setting in motion a profound shift in the nature and location of power . |
| 12 | Is this a realistic target he 's setting at five thousand ? |
| 13 | His interest in the British empire was stimulated by a schoolmaster 's setting for a Latin essay prize a subject involving imperial federation . |
| 14 | As I write , this duck is setting at my feet . |
| 15 | Castle is setting for play |
| 16 | The weather was wet and chilly and this run underlines the standard that White is setting in the club this year . |
| 17 | The mild paranoia which afflicts all prime ministers in time is setting in earlier than expected . |
| 18 | Orion is setting in the west ; Sirius is out of view , though Procyon and the Twins remain , and Aldebaran is still above the horizon . |
| 19 | Almost as if , having proclaimed himself paralytic in court , he was setting about proving it over and over again . |
| 20 | Behind the net curtain , the sun was setting on cushions of soft mauve , pearl and beige . |
| 21 | The sun was setting on the tops of the distant mountains . |
| 22 | The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard . |
| 23 | The hippies used to say : ‘ Wow man , you know we love Lyndon Johnson ’ , and people like Roland Muldoon — who was setting up the Cast street theatre group — were in a much more combative mood . |
| 24 | It was nearly seven in the evening and the sun was setting behind their backs before the two weary , footsore brothers were able to limp back to their barracks in Number Three Village with their joint quota fulfilled . |
| 25 | The sun was setting behind the black rocks , and the sea was a blaze of luminous colour . |
| 26 | On the day that Don Peters was on his feet at the EPC meeting , fighting for the survival of the British Vehicle Division and the jobs of the fifty thousand people it employed , Fred Clasper was setting in motion the third and final stage of his scheme to sabotage any possible chance of the company 's recovery . |
| 27 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 28 | The sun was setting in a red blaze as we drove into the centre of Mexico City , the long geometrically laid-out streets already darkening into canyons filled with the lights of cars . |
| 29 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |