Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They usually had a thick , armoured skin , as well as possessing advanced features such as predentary bone , and sometimes a complex set of teeth set in a horny mouth . |
| 2 | The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves . |
| 3 | Such churches were , therefore , like the basilica , rectangular in plan , twice as long as wide and had two or four rows of columns set along the long axis , providing three or five aisles . |
| 4 | A word or combination of letters set as a single unit . |
| 5 | Despite their rousing calls for a cinema that was ‘ vital , illuminating , ’ and their polemic against a national cinema divorced from contemporary realities , they turned to a series of novels set in the English provinces for material out or which to make their first movies . |
| 6 | If it is in one of the clinical subjects , graduates normally take Senior House Officer posts and prepare for examinations set by the relevant Royal College or faculty . |
| 7 | It is a system with sights set on a preordained ‘ historical ’ task , to be realised by ‘ scientific ’ means . |
| 8 | The price cuts were in line with conditions set by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank . |
| 9 | But whatever the motives , the Government 's twin aims of handing back the control of unions to the individual members , and ensuring that trade unions act within bounds set by a democratic state , are ones that should have been promoted by the left . |
| 10 | Debt reduction and rescheduling agreements with several of Poland 's Western creditor countries were dependent on conditions set by a 1991 agreement with the IMF . |
| 11 | The most important thing to check is that the instructors operate to standards set by the Royal Yachting Association , the governing body for the sport . |