Example sentences of "set [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave the rabbit to set for a few moments . |
| 2 | Turn off the heat and allow to set for a few minutes . |
| 3 | Yet these are small gains to set against the many reverses the right has suffered since Mr de Klerk started to undo apartheid . |
| 4 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |
| 5 | ( At the same time , the government reformed the rating system as it applied to companies by introducing a uniform business rate — set at the same rate throughout the country . ) |
| 6 | In other words , we were set for a few laughs . |
| 7 | ‘ Hopes And Fears ’ , an ocean of strings ( courtesy of The Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra ) , is set against the more pizzicato rhythms of ‘ Self ’ . |
| 8 | Haya de la Torre rejected the Comintern premise that Latin America was set on the same course of development as the European industrial nations . |