Example sentences of "be set on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sights are set on international competition . |
| 2 | Stone funerary beds are set on each side of the main chamber . |
| 3 | The challenge will be set on 7 December and has to be carried out by 22 December . |
| 4 | Between the torque control and the trigger sits the forward/reverse switch , a smallish device that can be set on neutral to stop the machine being accidentally turned on . |
| 5 | If , as we believe to be the case , powers are being so exercised , then the issue of constitutional legitimacy which arises is quite simple : what is the value or use of a constitution based on and designed to ensure the maintenance of a system of limited government if it can , quite lawfully and even constitutionally , be set on one side ? |
| 6 | The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal . |
| 7 | Destination boxes were set on high stanchions above the ends of the upper deck and had glazed openings in the back , so no deck lights were required . |
| 8 | Entry then became based on financial rather than medical or social assessment , and in 1983 upper limits were set on supplementary benefit , resulting in a massive increase in the total national bill for supplementary benefits to people in private sector homes — from £105m in 1983 to £500m by 1986 . |
| 9 | As one participant has suggested , the first intellectual task is to set on one side an archaeology of knowledge which has served us well for at least three centuries . |
| 10 | If Mr Lightbown is set on young and weak Tory miscreants , they either crumble or he persists until they do . |
| 11 | Oh ! hear me witness that my heart is set on higher things ; it would sail into far seas unvisited of man , but always there is this anchor of the flesh chaining it to its native shore . ’ |
| 12 | His will is set on continuous war . ’ |
| 13 | This is set on one side to start again after emptying out your reward , the valuable compost . |
| 14 | Overall the study considers that a low price is set on unfair deprivation of a job and that unfair dismissal compensation has little deterrent value for most employers wishing to dispense with the services of employees . |
| 15 | The aircraft was set on automatic pilot , leaving Vologsky little more than a passenger for the time being . |
| 16 | It was set on various slopes . |
| 17 | This tale of smugglers , murder and romance was set on this piece of coast and many of the places and people from the book have been commemorated in the names of streets and new houses built in the area . |
| 18 | A cliff path walk affords views of Burgh Island , to which Agatha Christie escaped to write in a cliff top gazebo — Evil Under the Sun was set on this 26 acre private island . |
| 19 | For added body , volume and manageability , hair was set on large rollers . |