Example sentences of "be [adv] set [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gatt simply replies : ‘ Just get on with it , I am not setting a field for bad balls . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm hardly setting a precedent . ’ |
| 3 | Scottish Nuclear 's ‘ Follow That Dog ’ sweatshirt are about to set a new trend in Scottish fashion — and we 're giving five away in our special Bulletin competition . |
| 4 | The appearance of Anna Seward , Anna Aikin Barbauld , Hannah More , Charlotte Smith , Helen Maria Williams and others , entailed that women were largely setting the poetic fashion from the late 1770s to the early 1790s . |
| 5 | Such demands were given urgency by the publication in 1915 of Maternity : letters from working women which described experiences of motherhood in harrowing terms ; they were also to set the agenda for the 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act and interwar policy . |
| 6 | Corvan 's achievement , then — with a narrow stock of materials and against a background of retrenchment , in which the bourgeoisie 's musical values , like its money , were increasingly setting the framework of socio-musical relationships — was to articulate those materials to the needs of his own particular audience . |
| 7 | Christie 's meanwhile set a new auction price record for a stamp in its New York dispersal of the Weill Brothers ' stock . |
| 8 | Once one of these grounds has been established , the party seeking the setting aside , which can be the adjudication officer or the claimant , must show that it is just to set the decision aside . |
| 9 | We could test it to see if we get an output , we do n't but we could do , there 's no need because all we have to do in effect is just set the weights of the decoders that are actually coming out . |
| 10 | ‘ She is also setting an example in these hard economic times and I think we should respect the Princess for this . ’ |
| 11 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 12 | Her manner said that this was a thing of great indifference to her , but that she was just setting the record straight . |
| 13 | On the opposite side of the room another fire burned brightly behind the high table , and a page was carefully setting the finger bowl in its place . |
| 14 | The effect was partly to set the poet amongst the roots of a wood or forest , until , as Mortimer Cropper had pointed out , one realised that the background was one of those compartmentalised Wardian cases , in which the Victorians grew plants in controlled environments , or created self-sustaining ponds , in order to study the physiology of plants and fishes . |
| 15 | And not just in Britain either , though it was now setting the pace - or at least contributing its own in all these fields . |