Example sentences of "be [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all poems are sufficiently lyrical , and they may be overburdened with wordy information : This kind poetry is far too prolix to be successfully set to music . |
| 2 | A 100-yard net can be properly set in less than five minutes — I could do that single-handed out of experience , but there is nothing in the technique that any novice need regard as prohibitive . |
| 3 | As Wright Mills observed in his critique , ‘ The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologists ’ : ‘ If the members of an academic profession are recruited from similar social contexts and if their backgrounds and careers are relatively similar , there is a tendency for them to be uniformly set for some common perspective ’ . |
| 4 | Calm down , Bina , it 'll be OK — magic , I 'll have shot through the lot — straight As , I 'll be all set for anything : research physicist , brain surgeon , professor of semiotic philology … |
| 5 | If London and the North both win , as expected , then the stage will be nicely set for a north-south shoot-out in their final game at Otley next Saturday . |
| 6 | The status of the SPR will be automatically set to Accepted . |
| 7 | The underlying values by which organizations are to be run have to be strongly set through a variety of management processes — in particular , through reinforcement by top management and the reward system . |
| 8 | The Victorian novelist had accumulated a simple but coherent view of society but also the genius to tell stories that needed to be firmly set in a fully created social setting . |
| 9 | Hydro-Protein Fluid Foundation glides effortlessly over the skin and can be lightly set with a brush of Hydro-Proteine Loose Powder . |
| 10 | ( 8 ) Where the prospective parliamentary candidate has been selected and subsequently intimates his or her intention not to stand for parliament in the constituency as the Labour Party candidate at the next election , the procedure set out in section ( 3 ) of this clause shall ( subject to section ( 4 ) of this clause ) be forthwith set in motion again . |