Example sentences of "[noun] be set [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Translated from the original French , the 16 takes of fantasy and fable in Flammes de Pierre are set around the Mont Blanc range which the author knows well . |
| 2 | You can also choose sealed units that give your windows the small-paned Georgian look , or the appearance of leaded lights in square and diamond formats , with none of the cleaning problems — the glazing bars and lead strips are set in the gap between the outer panes ( as long as you do n't go for a large picture window with this effect — it can look just plain silly ! ) . |
| 3 | Stanza three , the fox 's nose touch twig leaf and its footprints are set into the snow . |
| 4 | Some implements are set with the heads at different angles to make them easier to manoeuvre with one hand . |
| 5 | During a study of the various styles , it became apparent to me that if the back legs are set into the seat rails at an angle , this angle , together with the curvature of the rear legs and backward slope of the chair back can regulate the flair : if the legs are mounted at right angles to the rear seat rail , there would be no flair . |
| 6 | Business parameters are set by the market ; the focus is the customer or client and their demands . |
| 7 | Figure 8 Human skull from a Pre-pottery Neolithic level at Jericho , seventh millennium B.C. The face is plastered and cowrie shells are set in the eye sockets . |
| 8 | a partly automatic system is better , in which the time for regeneration is set by the operator after tests to determine the water hardness . |
| 9 | Boswednack Manor is set between the Penwith Moors and the wild Cornish coastline , and combines natural history with meditation and organic food . |
| 10 | Dessert cutlery is set above the place mat ; butter knife is on the side plate . |
| 11 | Is a prisoner serving a life sentence entitled to make representations before his tariff is set by the Secretary of State ? 4 . |
| 12 | The voltage gain of the amplifier is set by the ratio of resistor R1 to R1 at 11 times . |
| 13 | St Gilgen is set on the north west shore of the Wolfgangsee . |
| 14 | The action is set in the kind of country house , all wood panelling and flickering firelight , that normally provides the setting for a creaky stage thriller . |
| 15 | The upper limit on the amount of data is set by the database that has to handle it all , rather than by the car code system . |
| 16 | Thus an ivory statue of Athena Alea from the famous sanctuary at Tegea in the Greek Peloponnese was set at the entrance to his Forum , while a tusk of the Calydonian boar — no doubt correctly labelled — passed into the emperor 's bone collection . |
| 17 | To prevent seepage from the soil eroding the bottom part of the mud wall , a layer of fired bricks was set into the wall to separate the mud bricks from the foundation . |
| 18 | Night netting requires that your nets are set between the rabbits ' home ground and their feeding areas . |
| 19 | And stargazers who slavishly read those horoscopes are set for the sign of eternal damnation . |
| 20 | Beside the front doors of the houses at this mining settlement near Peterlee , slates are set into the walls . |
| 21 | The scene is set for the events leading up to the Crucifixion . |
| 22 | A complete candidate string is only allowable if the end-of-word flag is set at the node in the tree for the last letter of the string ( see flowchart D2 in Appendix D ) . |
| 23 | If all such letters are found , the algorithm checks whether the resulting string is a word ( i.e. the end-of-word flag is set at the tree-node reached by the search ) . |
| 24 | With 150cm Oppdal is set for the winter . |
| 25 | Imagine an economy in which the wage rate for half its workers is set at the end of every even period to cover the following two periods , while the wage rate for the other half is set at the end of every odd period , again to cover the following two periods . |
| 26 | While the final policy on all major legal and financial matters is set by the company 's managing director or president , the advice offered by these specialist executives improves the efficiency , profitability and overall performance of the company . |
| 27 | At sea the scene was set with the cutters Vigilant , Swift , Alert and Active patrolling about thirty miles offshore at midnight on September 16th to the west of Plymouth . |
| 28 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 29 | With enthusiastic Board members , an experienced Registrar and a small staff , and the accumulated validation experience of the late 1960s and early 1970s , the scene was set for the acquisition of a major award in the field , and the continued development of business and management studies that we have seen . |
| 30 | Then while the Sassanian dynasty was emerging in its turn , following the Parthians who had swept away the Seleucid regime that ruled both Mesopotamia and the lands farther east after the break-up of Alexander 's vast empire in the fourth century BC , the scene was set for the emergence of Islam . |