Example sentences of "of [noun prp] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | From where I stood outside it I could see the Channel and the town of Boulogne set around the port . |
| 2 | The Church of Scotland sets great store by metrical psalms , whilst the Free Church of Scotland sings its psalms unaccompanied by instruments . |
| 3 | The Church of England set an example in its semi-official Church Congresses which date from 1861 . |
| 4 | The FAO 's breed preservation meetings began in 1966 and in 1968 the ZSL and the Royal Agricultural Society of England set up a working party to consider the problem of Britain 's vanishing breeds . |
| 5 | LANOPTICS OF ISRAEL SETS UP ITS OWN UK SUBSIDIARY , TARGETS TOKEN RING MARKET |
| 6 | The Colégio Church has a baroque façade , with four marble statues of saints of the Society of Jesus set into it . |
| 7 | He orchestrated a number of other shows , including in 1976 Fire Angel , a version of Shakespeare 's Merchant of Venice set in the New York underworld . |
| 8 | All these analogies present a picture of God setting the process up ( creating ) , and then effectively sitting back and letting it continue of its own accord . |
| 9 | The faith of Mary sets the pattern for all true believers . |
| 10 | Watkins knew of the Chin tracks in India which follow the most direct line between villages regardless of gradient ; the straight camel tracks of Palestine , sighted on tree clumps on ridges , notched where the line went through ; and the skyline cairns of Egypt set up as landmarks for caravans . |
| 11 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | In 1988 the Long-term Credit Bank of Japan set up a joint investment advisory company with Foreign & Colonial Management . |
| 13 | Some countries are keener on being cleaner than others and it has been left up to the badly affected states of Europe to set the best example . |
| 14 | The Wallingfen court in the Vale of York set an upper limit for animals on the common in 1636 which was way above the actual carrying capacity of the land . |
| 15 | On June 11 the first truck convoy since the fall of Mengistu set out from the port of Assab towards Addis Ababa carrying fuel and food . |
| 16 | We discussed the idea of Jean-Claude setting them to piano accompaniment . |
| 17 | Kooyonga 's three-quarter length defeat of Zaahi sets up a possible clash with top three-year-olds St Jovite , Dr Devious , All At Sea and Muhtarram , as well as Saturday 's Nassau Stakes winner Ruby Tiger . |
| 18 | It caught on over here some years later with the Seven Men of Preston setting the trend . |
| 19 | SCOTVEC therefore welcomed the decision of SED to set up a small committee to look at the module/short course issues , particularly in the context of schools ' S3/4 stages . |
| 20 | His post of Prime-Minister of Poland set the seal on his reputation as a great patriot , and although the demands of affairs of state subsequently diminished his artistry , he always remained an important musical figure . |
| 21 | The Council of Nicaea set its seal on the structure that had thus come into being : a network of urban bishoprics , grouped into provinces headed by a metropolitan bishop , usually in the capital city of the civil province . |
| 22 | In response , Bank of America set up a state-chartered bank expressly to sell insurance policies through its branches . |
| 23 | In the opposite direction , firmer in outline , more clearly separated from the cling of the sky , the darker mountains of Wales set the boundary of his vision . |
| 24 | The two boys from the puritan villages of Wales set themselves up as hell-raisers to the world . |
| 25 | The Port of Belfast set a new trading level in 1990 for Irish ports of almost nine million tonnes of goods handled . |
| 26 | The latter was now a veritable ghost town with its derelict buildings holding up false-front facades in the fashion of Hollywood sets . |
| 27 | When Hornby died at the height of his company 's success , the annual output of his factories totalled millions of Meccano sets , Hornby trains , and Dinky toys , which had become household names throughout the world . |