Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [is] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This glorious late medieval home is set in the beautiful Usk valley , midway between Abergavenny and Brecon . |
| 2 | A large , double bowl sink served by pressure hot and cold fresh water is set in the fiddles peninsula with a trash bin beneath . |
| 3 | This miracle is set in the town of Capernaum in Galilee . |
| 4 | This book is set against the breakdown of the pattern in recent times , the next will concentrate on peasants who have moved to the city . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The second theme is set by the title — the self-made man — which harks back to Gordon Childe 's Man Makes Himself ( 1936 ) . |
| 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 | In an offer for sale a fixed price is set for the shares to be offered to the public by an issuing house for the company concerned . |
| 9 | The rateable value is set by the local valuation office , which is a branch of the Inland Revenue . |
| 10 | It will be recalled from Chapter 3 that the Partnership Act provides that where no definite duration is set for the partnership any partner may " retire " by giving his co-partners notice , whereupon in the absence of any contrary agreement the firm is dissolved . |
| 11 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 12 | An optimum time is set for the course , and penalties awarded if competitors exceed it . |
| 13 | The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Early shipments have already gone out ; general availability is set for the end of the year . |
| 17 | the front bed is set into the correct position by moving the intermediary lever to the 1/4 pitch , or transfer position . |
| 18 | Since it was on 11th February in 1984 that I published the Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris on the Christian meaning of human suffering , I believe it is significant that the same day is set for the celebration of the ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The IX register is set to the address of this parameter table . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Because the front bed is now the main bed , the main tension is set on the front carriage . |
| 23 | I have never eaten brawn — no doubt I should do so — so can not comment on it except to say that it is made from the pig 's head which is simmered with herbs and spices ; the resulting meat is set in the naturally produced aspic . |
| 24 | 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 . |