Example sentences of "[noun] [is] set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Because the front bed is now the main bed , the main tension is set on the front carriage .
2 The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be .
3 This shows accuracy , however , not prejudice : most of his work is set before the English navvies and engineers descended on Normandy .
4 This glorious late medieval home is set in the beautiful Usk valley , midway between Abergavenny and Brecon .
5 Mohicans is set among the wild , untamed undergrowth and soaring , sheer mountained backdrop to the American war between France and England with each side sporting its native American allies .
6 A different kind of limitation is set by the third condition and it is this which we will look at now .
7 The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area .
8 The usual technique for checking that the microphone is set to the correct level after the audience arrives is to call , ‘ Can you all hear me ? ’
9 The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own .
10 Long , graduated tails , in which all but the outermost feathers are elongated , generate the same lift as normal tails ( because maximum span is set by the outermost feathers and so does not change ) but substantially more drag , as elongation adds considerably to tail area .
11 On the north side of the house the royal coat of arms is set into the classical pediment
12 EOF# is only true if PTR# is set beyond the last byte written to the file .
13 EOF# is only true if PTR# is set beyond the last byte written to in the file .
14 The buildings date to the early 13th century , and the abbey is set in the beautiful Llandeilo hills .
15 the front bed is set into the correct position by moving the intermediary lever to the 1/4 pitch , or transfer position .
16 The full release of Data Connection 's SNAP-APPN is set for the second quarter of the year .
17 The book is set in the 1940s and this is how things were then , so to expect a different kind of portrayal would be unreasonable .
18 The cottage is set on the highest ridge of the Chiltern Hills and is surrounded by the most glorious countryside .
19 With all LIFFE contracts , the maintenance margin level is set at the initial margin level .
20 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 ) .
21 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 .
22 ‘ You know the play 's set in the twenty-first century , ’ Josh explained .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 The rateable value is set by the local valuation office , which is a branch of the Inland Revenue .
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