Example sentences of "[noun] [be] set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The grimmer tone of government was set by the new head of the Third Section , P. A. Shuvalov : typical of the ministerial changes which took place was the replacement of A. V. Golovnin , the liberally minded Minister of Education , by the notoriously reactionary Dmitrii Tolstoy . |
| 32 | Oxford and Cambridge came face to face for the first time today when the scales were set for the official weigh-in . |
| 33 | The present system frequently results in simple cases being set before the High Court while much more complicated issues are being decided by the county courts . |
| 34 | Numerous poles were set into the mossy cobbles of the yard , connected at a height of six feet or so by thin cords . |
| 35 | New standards were set for the working-class house in terms of space , WC , bathrooms , sunlight and garden space . |
| 36 | In the later eighteenth century the concept of nobility was subject to an attack that reached surprising verbal violence : the useful bourgeois was set against the useless noble as the pattern of social virtue . |
| 37 | With all LIFFE contracts , the maintenance margin level is set at the initial margin level . |
| 38 | Instead of coding the instruction length into the operation code , the word mark bit is set on the left-hand character of each instruction ( which contains the operation code ) . |
| 39 | Landscaped with elegant villas dating from the turn of the century , the resort is set between the startling beauty of the Apuan Alps and the gently shelving Tyrrhenian Sea . |
| 40 | The play is set in the late Eighties when power dressing was at its peak — which explains the bold jackets , short hemlines and figure-hugging dresses . |
| 41 | Once everything is up and running drop into the BIOS set-up program and ensure that the Coprocessor field is set to the appropriate value to indicate the presence of a 387DX . |
| 42 | For slip stitch the main carriage is set to slip so the cam lever is on S on Silver and Knitmaster machines , both Part buttons are in on Brother and the selection lever or dial is set to the central empty position on the Toyota models 901 and 950 . |
| 43 | This hotel is set in the beautiful bay of Marina di Campo , about five minutes walk from the resort centre , and the same distance from the fine beaches . |
| 44 | Comdex/Sucesu is set for the Parque Anhembi and Center Norte in Sao Paulo , Brazil August 23-27 and expects 450 exhibitors and 135,000 attendees . |
| 45 | The tone is set by the continual use of the pose with head held high , back slightly arched , arms in closed 4th or a stretch fully upwards in 5th sur les pointes for Kitri or on demi-pointes for Basil . |
| 46 | The new tone was set in the early hours of Friday when a broken-hearted bearded man of radical inclinations tore down his Labour posters and replaced them with a single bleak statement which , curiously , he must have had printed before the election . |
| 47 | Written in verse , the play was set in the Middle Ages and told of a soldier back from seven years in the wars who wanted to die and a beautiful witch who wanted to live . |
| 48 | Pop culture thus works through an amalgam of attitude , inspiration , intuition and detail ( for nobody is as obsessive as the true pop fan , whose obsession is rarely given the respect it deserves ) ; crucially , it works best not in public , where the terms of discourse are set by the dominant culture , but in private space . |
| 49 | The slick production is set to the Simple Minds song ‘ Alive and Kicking ’ and features such stars as Bruce Grobbelaar , Gordon Strachan , Paul Stewart , Vinny Jones , John Wark and Anders Limpar . |
| 50 | The rateable value is set by the local valuation office , which is a branch of the Inland Revenue . |
| 51 | Crow Wood is set below the north-western flanks of the Cleveland Hills , with a clear view to Roseberry Topping , a strangely menacing peak rising straight out of meadows and woodland . |
| 52 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 53 | His face was set into the perfect sympathetic mould now . |
| 54 | Having steadily reduced the preparation from organism to circuit , the stage was set for the final reduction ; Kandel 's colleague Samuel Schacher dissected out the specific sensory and motor neurons and incubated them together in a dish ( a procedure known as tissue culture ) . |
| 55 | The capture of Côte 304 represented the first breach in the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had prescribed on taking up his command , and with it the stage was set for the final German attack on the Mort Homme , with the elder Falkenhayn once again in command . |
| 56 | The stage was set for the following year when Christie 's New York offered the now famous ‘ Egyptian ’ clock , estimated at $200,000–300,000 . |