Example sentences of "[pron] [be] set [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interior is lit partly by the 16 windows in each dome which are set above the springing line , but this has been less effective since the thirteenth century when the outer cupolas were constructed . |
| 2 | H. This stands for historic pricing and indicates that unless there has been an intervening revaluation investors may deal at the prices quoted in the newspaper on that day ( which were set at the closing levels of the previous day ) . |
| 3 | The lotus design , however is nearly identical to the flower which is set in the central square of a geometrical device in the St. Nicholas Street pavement ( pI . |
| 4 | The amusing story spread like wild-fire through the district and tradition maintains that it impressed the fertile imagination of the young Robert Burns , who was nine years old at the time , and that he recalled the incident many years later when he was creating his masterpiece , the poem Tam O' Shanter , which is set in the ruined kirk . |
| 5 | With a monochrome viewfinder. use ‘ auto ’ or remember to check that you are set to the correct preset . |
| 6 | The hippies used to say : ‘ Wow man , you know we love Lyndon Johnson ’ , and people like Roland Muldoon — who was setting up the Cast street theatre group — were in a much more combative mood . |
| 7 | just as there is a tension between the evolutionary ups and downs of the hairy epileptic on the bed who ‘ Jacknifes upward ’ , and the shaving ‘ Sweeney Erect ’ , so there is set against the prostrate unreason indicated by ‘ The epileptic on the bed [ who ] / Curves backward , clutching at her sides , another woman who later walks upright : |
| 8 | At low capacity , prices will frequently be high since they are set on the vertical part of the short-run marginal cost curves . |
| 9 | This is called the fill light , and it is set on the other side of the camera to reduce the depth of the shadows and to soften the modelling of the subject . |
| 10 | It is set in the comfortable , relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of an attractive building in its own gardens on the edge of Porthmadog . |
| 11 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |