Example sentences of "[noun pl] set into " in BNC.

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1 She climbed the rickety steps set into the hillside and got up to the porch of the Katz house .
2 There were to be listening posts with recorded messages , sturdy steps set into inclines , handrails at strategic points and gates adapted for guide dogs .
3 Then she turned and eased herself over the lip , clambered down the old wooden steps set into the clay wall , and ran across towards the jetty .
4 They had strengthened structurally weak areas around doors and windows with layers of fired bricks set into the mud walls .
5 Wallmounted lights ( including lighting bricks set into the wall ) are a good choice for steps , while post-mounted lights , bollard-type lights or low-level lanterns are good for paths .
6 Blanche 's lips set into a pout of annoyance .
7 The dashed curves trace the results of a full access frequency load to 100 per cent packing , while the unbroken curves show the effect of adding records of average activity from the packing densities set into each curve .
8 Two rounds after the door is opened , the floor between the doors to 76 and 78 retracts and the passage becomes a pit , 4 yards deep , with jagged iron spikes set into the bottom .
9 Elsewhere , buildings were entirely of timber-framed construction , either with their sills set into prepared trenches ( E ) or resting upon the ground surface ( F ) or based upon timber posts set into individual pits ( G ) or in linear trenches ( H ) .
10 The gate seemed strong and solid , with four big hinges set into the stone .
11 By 1700 it had an outer polygonal timber palisade one sazhen high ( a sazhen is 2.13 metres ) and 1,500 sazhens in length , with five towers set into it .
12 Ventilators set into the wall , or grilles in the floor ( leading to the underfloor space ) are the best ways .
13 Playing the SW213EB through a guitar amp ( which is probably how electros in this price bracket will be used ) with the amp 's mid control backed off helped improve the clarity , but as the pickup is the passive type , with six individual polepieces set into the fingerboard , it 's never going to have the bite of an active , bridge-mounted transducer .
14 The cutting form is a board with steel blades set into it in the desired shape .
15 Before him on the desk is an ornate bronze lamp which glows with a very , very feeble purple radiance due to the coloured quartz lenses set into it .
16 Garrard 's choice is a fine Regency shop-front while Bulgari 's is , as always , a model of sleek modernity , the jewels shown in cases set into the walls like pictures in an art gallery .
17 There are three pairs of pads set into the surface of the tube ; one pair set on the top control the forward and backward motion , the second pair mounted on the side at the top control the up and down motion .
18 He was in one of a bank of four public booths set into the rear wall of Dunstable post office ; he was still north of London .
19 Plans and drawings or maps can be stored in neat rolls in large baskets or drums or laid flat in thin drawers set into a wall of storage ; these can look interesting in themselves with their severe and narrow horizontal lines .
20 They usually comprise a circle of stake-holes set into shallow trenches with stouter posts located at the doorways , suggesting a wickerwork construction with mud or clay daub walls and a thatched roof .
21 Elsewhere , buildings were entirely of timber-framed construction , either with their sills set into prepared trenches ( E ) or resting upon the ground surface ( F ) or based upon timber posts set into individual pits ( G ) or in linear trenches ( H ) .
22 The side-dots are odd in that black dots alternate with white dots set into big black squares , and I think that from the player 's viewpoint this almost spoils the whole line of the guitar .
23 In its place are three buttons set into the right hand cab pillar .
24 There are numbers of Latin inscriptions here , from two of which , on stones set into the wall to the left of the doorway , the completion of the porch and the dedication of the church can be dated to 1200 and 1240 respectively .
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