Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] to set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been no time to set about her hair , or her blue-white face , only enough time to make a delicious picnic and pack its basket into the boot of the car . |
| 2 | If that was unacceptable in Britain , how much more so would be a proposal to set up a porno cinema at Heathrow or Gatwick ? |
| 3 | For example there may be a decision to set up an expensive data-processing facility in order to cut the costs of data-processing . |
| 4 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 5 | The Schema DDL is the language to set up the global data description . |
| 6 | It 's a doddle to set up and use — all you have to do is fit the various bits of the printer together and plug it in . |
| 7 | It is a pretence to set up a model of mother , father and children as the only acceptable form . ’ |
| 8 | That 's no way to set about being saved , so an entirely solemn reader would be bound to think . |
| 9 | However , there is an attempt to set up a message desk , where if your phone , at the moment , switchboard will put calls through to you , if you do n't answer by a certain number of rings , it will either divert to another number or come back to the switchboard . |
| 10 | A few years later there was a proposal to set up a council , composed exclusively of professional diplomats who had served abroad for at least seven years , to advise the king on foreign affairs . |
| 11 | Elsewhere there was no need to set up special bodies , but it is clear that much local administration had in practice to be devolved into the hands of local men . |
| 12 | After the Second World War the coverage of the needs of the disabled became fairly comprehensive in scope , although there was no attempt to set up a single department or authority to be responsible for their needs . |