Example sentences of "[Wh det] have [be] set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He is convinced the necessary seven member states whichever they may be can still meet the criteria for economic convergence which has been set as the minimum to permit a single currency in a majority of member states .
2 The TSBs have told us that their lending , started only in 1977 , is increasing rapidly ( within a quota which has been set by the Treasury ) .
3 On 19th May Edward moved into the Tower of London to await his Coronation , which had been set for 22nd June .
4 Firemen needed police support as they tackled a car in the driveway which had been set on fire .
5 A few weeks ago I wrote to inform your Mother and Aunts of the Death of Mr. Green 's eldest unmarried Daughter , who was the main prop of the Family , and of a plan which had been set on foot for their relief by raising a Subscription , to which I received a most kind and satisfactory reply .
6 On the top terrace was a line of cypress leylandii trees , quite small as yet , eight rhododendron bushes — obviously fairly recent plantings , and on ground level a grinding stone four feet across which had been set on a granite plinth and made into a table with slate seats supported on bricks at right angles to it .
7 GCC Interior Ministers met in Kuwait on Nov. 21 and 22 , and Finance Ministers met on Nov. 22 but apparently failed to make progress on proposals for a customs union — a step towards creation of a common market by the year 2000 which had been set as an objective earlier in the year [ see p. 38985 ] .
8 Any suggestion of Italianism is stamped out by the steady march of the voices : Incidentally , one of Kittel 's Arien is a setting of the last three strophes of Opitz 's ‘ Nachtklag ’ , the first six of which had been set by Schütz as a madrigal , ‘ Itzt blicken durch des Himmels Saal ’ for five voices , two violins , and continuo .
9 Nevertheless the evidence available , partial and fragmentary though it is , suggests that the structural incentives which have been set in place are starting to operate in the way they were intended and present opportunities to make services more responsive to consumers and more appropriate to local needs .
10 Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others …
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