Example sentences of "set [prep] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no target date set for completion of the new project . |
| 2 | Manzoni was born , in 1785 , near Lake Como and The Betrothed is set near Lecco on the eastern arm of that lake . |
| 3 | Therefore , the relative prices of index futures appear to be set in accordance with the no-arbitrage condition , adjusted for transaction costs . |
| 4 | It is set in Germany during the middle ages , and although not abandoning a ‘ fantasy ’ setting , its stance is rather more along the ‘ if what they believed about magic and legends were actually true ’ . |
| 5 | s This sudden explosion of the public into the private domain after 1914 , the inevitable result of profound structural changes in French society set in motion in the late nineteenth century , not only exploded the myth of an unchanging , clearly delineated set of social actors operating in a stable social environment , but also undermined the credibility of any attempt to separate the social from the psychological in the portrayal of individual characters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And that obviously creates the uplift in land values which finances the social structure that would be set in terms of the operational criteria for the new settlement . |
| 8 | For the Westernizers the process was set in train by the young Boris Chicherin , who completed " The Eastern Question from the Russian Point of View " in the month of Nicholas 's death . |
| 9 | Early the next morning , meters set on top of the 400-foot chimney , which stretched high above the reactor , recorded a dramatic rise in the level of radioactivity . |
| 10 | He had visited the billiard room that morning and his nerves had been set on edge by the distressing scenes he had witnessed . |
| 11 | Two passenger cars were set on fire outside the Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 12 | Frankie would be set to work at the big sink , and before he washed each plate and roasting-pan he would scrape it clean with his fingers and eat every last scrap of chicken , sage and onion stuffing , corned beef , sliced Spam and cheese . |
| 13 | The fees were set at £6 for the Junior Department and £10 for the Senior ; and there was to be no age differentiation in future . |
| 14 | These figures are well within the range of possibilities set by observations of the solar constant from the Earth : as Gilliland says in this picture ‘ low temperatures of the last two decades result primarily from a minimum of the solar 76-year cycle ’ . |