Example sentences of "set [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 31 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 32 | Animal traps dangerous to you are set in this area . |
| 33 | In Couperin 's Magnificat for two voices , it is ‘ Et misericordia ’ that is set in this notation , and a slow tempo would be well in accord with the usual Baroque Affekt for this passage . |
| 34 | Both are written by young American women writers and are set in this century . |
| 35 | This tale of smugglers , murder and romance was set on this piece of coast and many of the places and people from the book have been commemorated in the names of streets and new houses built in the area . |
| 36 | By adopting this methodical approach you should avoid the pitfalls and successfully answer any questions set on this subject . |
| 37 | The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal . |
| 38 | A cliff path walk affords views of Burgh Island , to which Agatha Christie escaped to write in a cliff top gazebo — Evil Under the Sun was set on this 26 acre private island . |
| 39 | ( a ) Aldeburgh Birthplace of the 18th-century poet George Crabbe and the home of Benjamin Britten , whose opera Peter Grimes , set on this coast , was based on a character in Crabbe 's poem The Borough . |
| 40 | Additionally , DCs which are generated as a result of using option 1.1.1 or option 1.1.3 are initially set to this state . |
| 41 | It was known from collocation studies ( see Chapter 4 ) that the information from co-occurrence relations is optimised at a distance of four words , so the window size was provisionally set at this distance . |
| 42 | The next most significant bit ( bit 1 ) is also set at this stage and these two bits of the accumulator are then written to the PIA lines used as the direction and clock start/stop signals . |
| 43 | er yes , so we 've got the European er currency units and all agricultural prices are set by this unit and in fact the green pound er is used to translate this er E C U into pound sterling . |
| 44 | She may be difficult to cover and may be an unthrifty mare , hard to keep in good condition — it is often severe weight loss , past or present , that sets off this kind of conformation . |
| 45 | An analysis by Reddaway ( 1977 ) of the period 1961–71 showed that this view was wide of the mark ; only 3 per cent of the purchase of motor cars and television sets in this period was attributable to population increase . |
| 46 | Down in dumps A GROUP of young people from Northern Ireland are setting off this week on a trip to one of the world 's poorest regions . |