Example sentences of "be set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central section of the courtyard of the Alte post had been set with a three-sided arrangement of trestle tables for a party of thirty and now they began to arrive . |
| 2 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 3 | She stooped down to drink where a stone had been set for a firm landing beside a foot-wide pool . |
| 4 | Either an early access or a general availability announcement has been set for the third quarter of 1993 , three to six months before OSF . |
| 5 | On this occasion , Anthony d'Offay made one bid of $100,000 but the reserve had been set at a higher level . |
| 6 | When it had been examined and test-flown by the manufacturer 's pilot prior to the revalidation of the microlight 's Permit to Fly both wingtip adjusters had been set at the neutral position with no apparent need for any change . |
| 7 | A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign . |
| 8 | The tone had been set from the earliest days of the BBC . |
| 9 | The argument for a more comprehensive approach to work organization has been set in a new context by developments in product markets , trading conditions and manufacturing technology in the 1980s . |
| 10 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 11 | The play had been set in a military hospital in England in 1944 . |
| 12 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 13 | A new world record has been set in the Central South region . |
| 14 | The first visible sign of his drive for progress has already been set in the nuclear field . |
| 15 | Number twos tend therefore to be passed over ( except for the top job in America , for which agreeably relaxed standards of industry have been set by a recent incumbent ) . |
| 16 | At this time the fastest anyone had yet covered the English mile distance had been set by the professional runner , William Richards , at 4 minutes 17¼ seconds in Manchester on 19 August 1865 . |
| 17 | The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence . |
| 18 | When this pin is held high , the output pins are set into a high impedance state , behaving as though they are , in effect , switched off . |
| 19 | The head of La Paysanne which conveys the same monolithic , blocklike quality as her body , has features , like those of so many of her immediate predecessors in Picasso 's work , that are set into a concave or volumetrically negative facial plane , often set under convex foreheads . |
| 20 | The item below that is the shortfall in planning application fees , this is application fees for er mineral extraction applications which are , these are set as a statutory charge erm we 've picked up in the budget monitoring reports which have been to previous committees that the from this source has been falling off , as a few words explain that in this paragraph . |
| 21 | A COUPLE who suffered a catalogue of tragedies are set for a second honeymoon in the Austrian mountains . |
| 22 | THE BEATLES and other former pop stars are set for a new royalties bonanza under an artistes ' rights deal agreed by the EC yesterday . |
| 23 | Halifax have made some great buys and we are set for a successful season . ’ |
| 24 | TWO of Ireland 's best known Catholic priests are set for a bitter and unprecedented court war , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 25 | On every release , targets are set for the whole sales force by the sales manager or director , in consultation with the marketing division . |
| 26 | Individual limits on emissions of pollutants are set for the 29 coal and oil-fired power stations , and operating conditions and standards are laid out . |
| 27 | It is essential , for instance , that environmental standards for industry are set at a European level so that companies do not compete by seeking out those locations with inadequate environmental protection . |
| 28 | Expectations are set at an early stage : that the therapist can only offer education and advice , and the client is responsible for assimilating and applying this information . |
| 29 | the top layer of blocks/copes are set on a suitable mortar bed such as Marshall 's M-fix as suggested by the manufacturer , |
| 30 | When the fuselage surfaces , the wings will still be under water — you know how low wings are set on a modern jet . |