Example sentences of "[am/are] set in " in BNC.
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| 31 | Figure 8 Human skull from a Pre-pottery Neolithic level at Jericho , seventh millennium B.C. The face is plastered and cowrie shells are set in the eye sockets . |
| 32 | Holly Johnson 's and Paul Rutherford 's games with masculinity and male pleasure are set in remarkably old-fashioned contexts , in sixties-style ‘ liberated ’ party settings , women as available , threatening receptacles of desire . |
| 33 | Both Egyptian and Assyrian painting and relief often show a kind of bird's-eye view against which figures are set in profile at different levels . |
| 34 | Traditionally , and with good reason , large amounts of text are set in a serifed face ( that 's one with the little tick marks at the ends of the letters ) and headings are set in a typeface that does n't have them ; a sans serif face . |
| 35 | Traditionally , and with good reason , large amounts of text are set in a serifed face ( that 's one with the little tick marks at the ends of the letters ) and headings are set in a typeface that does n't have them ; a sans serif face . |
| 36 | However , if your company requires that all its slides are set in Univers or Franklin Gothic you 'll be hard pushed to find a film recorder that will oblige . |
| 37 | His eyes are a little protuberant , and his lips are set in a faint smile , so that as he leans forward against the wheel , gazing straight ahead through the windscreen , he seems to be waiting for the green light with eagerness . |
| 38 | ‘ Sir , ’ they say , ‘ thank God there is someone … restored my faith in human nature … performed a signal service … struck a blow for common sense and ordinary human decency … exposed the hypocrisy of those who for our sins are set in authority over us … expressed what the vast majority of people fed … spoken up for the minority whose views are never taken into account … ’ |
| 39 | Since cash limits are set in advance of wage agreements and since wages and salaries are the largest element in social service costs , it is not easy to achieve ‘ realism ’ in the cash limits without some long-term understanding with the fairly cowed public sector unions about the scale of pay awards . |
| 40 | Seeds are set in good seasons , but few are viable , germination is low , and seedlings are vulnerable to predation . |
| 41 | Prices are set in local currencies . |
| 42 | He is right to warn of such dangers , but they are more likely where leading indicators are set in some general , non-rigorous way without carefully developing a model of what is needed , and by when , to improve or maintain each SBU 's competitive strengths . |
| 43 | The new books feature the same detective , Sarah Keane , and are set in a newspaper office ‘ not a million miles away from the Mirror ’ , according to Gordon . |
| 44 | We shall also assume that wages rather than prices are set in advance , so that our formal model is one of ‘ wage stickiness ’ rather than ‘ price stickiness ’ . |
| 45 | Extracts from the report are set in italic type : salient comments follow , verbatim . |
| 46 | Animal traps dangerous to you are set in this area . |
| 47 | The procedures which are set in place when the contract is signed will create an atmosphere for the remainder of the project . |
| 48 | As a result of intense competition , bonds are often sold at a discount to attract investors ( the " reallowance " ) or else banks would sell their bonds in the grey market ( a market for bonds on which the issue price or syndicate allocations has not yet been determined , where quotes are set in relation to the unknown final price ) , which may oblige the lead manager to buy the bonds back in order to support the price . |
| 49 | The er , Business Grants Panel share has , has , has now met on a number of occasions , and the three results of its decisions are set in the report . |
| 50 | In Notus in Judaea , when ‘ the earth trembled and was still ’ ( ‘ Terra tremuit et quievit ’ ) , it is the last two words which are set in 3/2 , and marked Très lent . |
| 51 | The arias of his serenata La nemica d'amorefatta amante ( 1693 ) are set in nine different keys which occur in apparently random succession ; an aria in B minor precedes a duet in B♭ major . |
| 52 | With the partial exception of Didon and Les femmes , which dwell on the protagonist 's unstable emotions in the manner of a theatrical soliloquy , it is dramatic episodes rather than specific movements that are set in relief through well timed key changes , as in Campra 's stage action scenes . |
| 53 | Two papers are set in each option so the options constitute one half of the final examination papers . |
| 54 | In the rectangular panels , adjacent to the octagon , ivy leaves are set in a kind of " italic circle " supported by four triangles . |
| 55 | Among many-celled animals , various types of worm and some shellfish have a similar arrangement , but the pigment-backed light-sensitive cells are set in a little cup . |
| 56 | Both are written by young American women writers and are set in this century . |
| 57 | But er you can , I mean we 've got , of course I 'm not too young myself but er we are set in our ways . |
| 58 | Like its predecessors , it is structured around a simple thesis — in this case , that information and knowledge are setting in motion a profound shift in the nature and location of power . |
| 59 | I understand that an essential site survey has not yet been undertaken , and would ask that this be set in hand immediately . |