Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [be] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is therefore crucial that standards are set by the EEC and that manufacturers , government and retailers should be forced to provide the best technology on the market . |
| 3 | The weather was wet and chilly and this run underlines the standard that White is setting in the club this year . |
| 4 | Early in the season , Tony Wright bravely predicted that Gloucestershire were set for a successful summer . |
| 5 | Piles of pessimistic reports from stockbrokers suggest that Hollywood is set for a crash . |
| 6 | There were three types ( ‘ modes ’ ) , depending on whether the syllabus and/or examination were set by an examining board or a school . |
| 7 | Today , the remarkably well-preserved ruins of the church , Abbot 's House and Infirmary are set in an attractive , wooded park — though surrounded by an incongruous mass of streets and factories . |
| 8 | The subject had been explored in The Trumpet-Major and stories such as ‘ The melancholy hussar of the German legion ’ but it now began to take shape as a verse drama of epic proportions in which the historical story of Napoleon 's rise and fall was set against a reflective commentary on man 's ‘ place in the universe ’ . |
| 9 | This power brings with it the responsibility to ensure that decisions are made and priorities are set upon the basis of the best educational advice available . |
| 10 | The cooking fires were lit and pots were set over the flames to boil . |
| 11 | Both church and rectory are set in a serenely tranquil site , partially secreted by a variety of lovely trees . |
| 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 | Traditionally , and with good reason , large amounts of text are set in a serifed face ( that 's one with the little tick marks at the ends of the letters ) and headings are set in a typeface that does n't have them ; a sans serif face . |
| 15 | When shortages of equipment , powder , bombs and food were set alongside the shortage of men , the prospect of eventual victory receded still further . |
| 16 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 17 | If PP is set outside the range allowed for by the selected format , it is taken as 9 . |
| 18 | Boucheron 's parure is in the grand manner of the Nineties : the V-shaped collar with matching ring and earrings is set with a fortune in round pure white and square yellow diamonds . |