Example sentences of "[pron] be set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : If I be set upon a wrong thing you must not dispute with me but do it and expostulate afterwards . |
| 2 | The interior is lit partly by the 16 windows in each dome which are set above the springing line , but this has been less effective since the thirteenth century when the outer cupolas were constructed . |
| 3 | H. This stands for historic pricing and indicates that unless there has been an intervening revaluation investors may deal at the prices quoted in the newspaper on that day ( which were set at the closing levels of the previous day ) . |
| 4 | My own feeling is that there is a great similarity and that there is a a base salary normally which is set on a competitive level with a target as in this case perhaps at the mid-point , perhaps at the sixty percent level or whatever it would be and that a significant uplift in compensation can be obtained by a bonus scheme , if the performance of the company as measured in earnings per share , return on capital , return on equity or any m other measure if those objectives are met . |
| 5 | Vargas Llosa 's The Time of the Hero , which is set in a Peruvian military academy where the cadets assume an ostentatious machismo as a survival strategy , oscillates between third-person narration and monologue ( interior and spoken ) to bring out the gulf between the boys ' public personae and their sensitive and vulnerable inner self , and to highlight how social intercourse distorts their personality by conditioning them to suppress their softer feelings . |
| 6 | We were staying overnight at Blackburn bothy , which is set in a small wood with a stream wending through it . |
| 7 | Initially the reasoning behind this law seemed sensible for a region like Champagne , which is set in a viticultural twilight zone where the size of harvest fluctuates from year to year . |
| 8 | The lotus design , however is nearly identical to the flower which is set in the central square of a geometrical device in the St. Nicholas Street pavement ( pI . |
| 9 | In comparison to this , ‘ The Disappearance ’ which is set in the 1970's is altogether a different type of community . |
| 10 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is set in the first decade of the twentieth century , in rural Georgia and most of the characters are black Americans as are those in ‘ The Friends ’ which is set in the seventies , in Harlem , New York . |
| 11 | It consists of two alternating narratives , one of which is set in the eighteenth century and the other in the present , with the earlier delivered in the first person . |
| 12 | The amusing story spread like wild-fire through the district and tradition maintains that it impressed the fertile imagination of the young Robert Burns , who was nine years old at the time , and that he recalled the incident many years later when he was creating his masterpiece , the poem Tam O' Shanter , which is set in the ruined kirk . |
| 13 | Similarly , in La neige etait sale ( The Stain on the Snow ) which is set in an occupied country , has as its hero Frank Friedmaier — a thug who kills for fun and arranges the rape of a young woman who loves him . |
| 14 | History in the primary school therefore presents the paradox of some fine work , which is set in an uncertain curricular pattern , and is too rarely part of a firm curriculum plan . |
| 15 | A pot of ch'ban , a beverage which Alexei thought was quite similar to earth stock coffee , bubbled quietly on a burner which was set in a shallow bowl of sand on the table at her side . |
| 16 | Imhotep , however , created for his king a six-stepped pyramid tomb , which rose to a height of 204 feet ( 62.2m ) and which was set within a rectangular walled enclosure containing various ritual buildings , the whole funerary complex being constructed with stone . |
| 17 | With a monochrome viewfinder. use ‘ auto ’ or remember to check that you are set to the correct preset . |
| 18 | You were set on a different road : you could even become — who knows ? — a schoolteacher . |
| 19 | Now she 's set for a quiet life |
| 20 | Halifax have made some great buys and we are set for a successful season . ’ |
| 21 | In other words , we were set for a few laughs . |
| 22 | A quick trip to stock the fridge , the larder and the wine rack and everything is set for a fantastic holiday , with the freedom to come and go when you choose , eat the very best available in the shops , try out the local wines and generally ‘ go native ! ’ |
| 23 | The controversial Mildmay fences posed no problems they could not solve and , eight months in advance , everything is set for an enthralling Boxing Day confrontation in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 24 | just as there is a tension between the evolutionary ups and downs of the hairy epileptic on the bed who ‘ Jacknifes upward ’ , and the shaving ‘ Sweeney Erect ’ , so there is set against the prostrate unreason indicated by ‘ The epileptic on the bed [ who ] / Curves backward , clutching at her sides , another woman who later walks upright : |
| 25 | At low capacity , prices will frequently be high since they are set on the vertical part of the short-run marginal cost curves . |
| 26 | They are set in a peaceful location only one kilometre from some of the most fantastic sand dunes in the Canaries and a short bus ride from the heart of the nightlife of Playa Del Ingles . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's set in a small valley in a remote region somewhere in the world . |
| 28 | It 's set in a large bay , about two miles deep and one mile wide , on the north west corner of the Bodrum Peninsula . |
| 29 | It 's set in a quiet location just one minute walk from the centre of the village . |
| 30 | It 's set in an instrumental ambient world a few parallel light years away from The Orb , with titles like ‘ Xtai ’ , ‘ Ptolemy ’ , ‘ Heliosphan ’ and ‘ Hedphelyn ’ that demonstrate the art of Chill-out techno and loads of bits that sound like your phone ringing . |