Example sentences of "set in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put it in the fridge to firm up for 2–3 hours and then remove and leave to set overnight : if you chill everything except the aspic in the freezer beforehand , the terrine will set in half an hour . |
| 2 | In the event each of the 57 first wave trusts found their borrowing limits — known as " external financing limits " — set in such a way that their ability to raise capital was tightly controlled . |
| 3 | It was the weekly delivery , the lifeline to this scattered old community of not more than five hundred souls all told , set in all these millions of hectares . |
| 4 | And the countryside church , set in all that beauty ( there is nothing beautiful about Poole ) must , it seems , suffer for its loveliness — everyone wants to retire there . |
| 5 | The sound will then be re-recorded in binaural stereo using a dummy human head with a microphone set in each ear . |
| 6 | The maximum compensation we will pay , within the levels set in each service , is the market value of the item lost or damaged in the post . |
| 7 | Two papers are set in each option so the options constitute one half of the final examination papers . |
| 8 | ‘ For sale ’ signs began to multiply as panic set in that the village would be blighted . |
| 9 | During his last years he lived in Switzerland , and his novel Hidden Hands was set in that country . |
| 10 | It 's got a lot of history , partly to do with its railway background and ’ When I was a girl ’ was set in that world ; red brick , terraced housing and it 's really unique in that sense I think for a town in the south of England . |
| 11 | What ‘ unfudgeability ’ means is that accounting standards should be set in such a way that accounts can not be fudged ; Mr Damant claims that this is ‘ a new accounting principle ’ . |
| 12 | She was educated at Inverness Royal Academy and the Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington , Birmingham ( her thriller , Miss Pym Disposes , 1946 , was to be set in such a college ) . |
| 13 | As regards the Niemecz mechanical organs bearing Haydn compositions : Neumann criticizes me for saying that the machines play ‘ within a narrow range , stating that the machines ’ air brakes can be set in such a way ‘ that the speed is either halved or doubled ’ , and that therefore ‘ the question of an absolute original tempo becomes pointless . ’ |
| 14 | The charter says quality standards must be explicit and measurable and ‘ not set in such a way as to make black voluntary organisations unable to tender for contracts ’ . |
| 15 | ALTHOUGH the new novel from Terry Pratchett , WITCHES ABROAD ( Corgi , £3.99 ) , is set in another land , Discworld , it is still brilliant satire . |
| 16 | Works by Rembrandt , Vermeer , Turner , Reynolds and Gainsborough are beautifully set in this neoclassical house , remodelled by Robert Adam in 1764 . |
| 17 | Further — and this was where Kant moved decidedly beyond Hume and everyone else before him — even the most fundamental categories which we use to supply the framework of our knowledge of the world , those of space and time , must be set in this light . |
| 18 | The design task set in this test has some non-mathematical features and it was used in an exercise with some groups of teachers to obtain their views on what should be marked . |
| 19 | The statute of Carlisle is best set in this context . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Animal traps dangerous to you are set in this area . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Both are written by young American women writers and are set in this century . |
| 24 | These traditional villages are set in some of the most beautiful Austrian scenery we know . |
| 25 | A holiday travelogue set in some exotic location might on the other hand merit a slightly more expansive style to suit the circumstances . |
| 26 | Evocative , yes , but do n't think that today 's Ireland is set in some quaint emerald aspic . |
| 27 | The cottages are set in some of the most beautiful spots , including Snowdonia National Park , the Lake District , Brownsea Island , Dorset , and the the Fal Estuary , Cornwall . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Gas Aga which serves central heating and domestic hot water and set in most attractive brick recess with exposed beam over . |
| 30 | Fern Lodge is a tea-caddy Regency house with a frilly wrought-iron porch , set in half an acre of secluded gardens ; but it has no notable interiors . |