Example sentences of "[been] set [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her place had been set with a wreath of holly , adorned with a place card on which Richard had laboriously written ‘ Miss Abbitt ’ in scarlet ink with a liberal spattering of blots . |
| 2 | So we are well on the way to achieving the recruitment targets that have been set with a view to making the decision as effective as possible . |
| 3 | It was understood that this concealed differences among EC partners , with France arguing for an EC-Iraq meeting irrespective of the position regarding US-Iraqi contacts , and Italy and Spain prepared to endorse a meeting with Tariq Aziz provided that an eventual date had been set for a Bush-Aziz meeting . |
| 4 | A date has now been set for a Circuit Court Hearing in June of 1993 , almost two years since the date of his dismissal . |
| 5 | Both sides in the 15-year civil war , the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ) government and the United States-backed National Union for Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) , blamed the other , and no date appeared to have been set for a resumption . |
| 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 | Within the UK the threshold has been set at a level of £135,000 , above which any business supplying or acquiring goods will have to complete this form on a monthly basis . |
| 8 | Shareholders will benefit because the Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative has been set at a level which is 50 per cent higher than the recommended final cash dividend . |
| 9 | The stake had been set at a silver thruppence — a thruppence which ( Louisa remembered smiling now ) she had never seen , for the afternoon had ended in disaster . |
| 10 | Meanwhile figures for Oxfordshire 's council tax have also been set after a meeting which lasted into the early hours of this morning |
| 11 | A Bible passage that I sometimes imagine might have been set in a school playground ( or assembly hall ) is found in Matthew 9:37–38 . |
| 12 | A table for two had been set in a sort of bower beneath a canopy of spreading palms . |
| 13 | This barn owl 's broken wing had been set by a vet who kept it in a cat cage for a week or two so that it could rest . |
| 14 | 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 … , |