Example sentences of "a [noun] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without proper maps he followed a route set by compass , boiling up pemmican and glucose for food and sleeping under the stars in a sleeping bag at night . |
| 2 | I had bought her small gifts , I had kissed her hand whilst on May Day I 'd helped deck the house with green boughs and later took her to dance around a Maypole set up near Cattle Street . |
| 3 | The dance Nonesuch is a dance for four couples in a longways set . |
| 4 | This giant of a racehorse set off in last month 's Cheltenham Gold Cup — one of National Hunt racing 's blue riband events — with a heavy burden . |
| 5 | The hardware handshaking is always active , so if you only want to use software handshaking , you will need to wire a cable to set the handshaking lines high at all times . |
| 6 | A kitchen set up at a nearby ‘ dough ’ table can provide the ‘ food ’ — cakes , biscuits , sausage rolls or sandwiches . |
| 7 | In his later asylums at Gloucester ( 1811 ) and Dundee ( 1812 ) , Stark himself adopted markedly less institutionalized concepts , the former being planned as a crescent set in gardens and the latter as a domestically scaled rural farm . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's just a bit set in his ways . ’ |
| 9 | S J Paliwoda ( International Marketing ) draws attention to the need to evaluate political risk in a country before taking a decision to set up operations within that country . |
| 10 | For example there may be a decision to set up an expensive data-processing facility in order to cut the costs of data-processing . |
| 11 | Talks held on July 23 between the deputy chairmen of the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments , Yury Yazov and Vasiliy Dudinets respectively , ended with a decision to set up a joint parliamentary commission based in Sevastopol to supervise observance of the Dagomys agreement . |
| 12 | The current project is scheduled to take place over a 5 year period , with a budget set at 500k . |
| 13 | On June 23 , 1989 , the Finance Minister , Seetanah Lutchmeenaraidoo , presented a budget set at R8,900 million , with revenue estimated at R8,100 million , and an estimated deficit of 825,000,000 , and with the main objective of combating inflation , which had reached 16 per cent . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , I think it may be beyond my powers as a programmer to set up such a counterfeit world . |
| 15 | The young midfielder was an unknown Chelsea reserve when a gang set upon him as he played in a park five-a-side in West London last summer . |
| 16 | He was walking back from a Didcot Pub , when a gang set upon him as he took a short cut across a railway footbridge . |
| 17 | Write a sentence setting limits , using the formula in the box provided : |
| 18 | Loud noise ( usually delivered as " white noise " — a wide-band mixture of tones , sounding like a monotonous hiss as from a N set unconnected to an aerial ) is a potent arouser , and in rested subjects it has the effect of focusing attention in a dual component task . |
| 19 | He despatched the Hurricanes in three flights , each led by a Fulmar , while from Malta three Marylands and a Sunderland set out to meet the incoming formation and lead them in . |
| 20 | When mussels have opened , drain them in a colander set over a bowl . |
| 21 | Violent incidents erupted , barricades were erected and cars burned , over 100 people including 23 police were taken to hospital with injuries or breathing difficulties due to tear gas , and three dead bodies were recovered from a building set on fire by a Molotov cocktail . |
| 22 | She wants a statue set up inside the chapel . |
| 23 | Newman slowed down , stopped outside a cottage set well back from the road so Paula could read the name . |
| 24 | Purchasers will need more advice on prescribing ; in a contract setting this will include the definition of health gain from drugs , secondary care agreement of joint treatment protocols , systems to ensure appropriate prescribing at the primary care and secondary care interface , and definition of the standards and range of pharmaceutical services . |
| 25 | The MD will normally be an executive director , with a contract setting out his or her powers and duties , and terms of employment ; thus the MD has a dual role — that of director and that of an employee . |
| 26 | When a retailer sets up a new business , one of the first things he has to do is draw up a plan of the shop floor . |
| 27 | Just as your detective , however comic , needs a basis of solid fact , so does a story set in the comic mode . |
| 28 | The embarrassments of first love and sexuality , and particularly the nature of violence and cruelty , become bearable or ‘ handlable ’ in a story set in the past . |
| 29 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 30 | Tell a story set in the past and decide where you will stop to let the class take over . |