Example sentences of "[be] set [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tone had been set from the earliest days of the BBC . |
| 2 | THE BEATLES and other former pop stars are set for a new royalties bonanza under an artistes ' rights deal agreed by the EC yesterday . |
| 3 | The wages of farm workers are set by the Agricultural Wages Board ( for England and Wales ) . |
| 4 | By the end of the nineties , we could be set for the first Oscars awarded to synthetic actors . |
| 5 | For example , one might face a situation in which the fact that water more readily gave the desired values of the governing parameters ( its lower kinematic viscosity is often advantageous in this respect ) had to be set against the practical difficulties of containing it in an arrangement with movable probes . |
| 6 | The rules of the game , then , far from being set by society so as to ensure fair play for all , seemed to be set by the local authorities . |
| 7 | The organization of competitive pupil participation thus avoids excesses of boredom and inattention especially where false questioning trails can be set in the early stages and the ‘ answer ’ or ‘ point ’ of the lesson delayed so that pupils have to work hard to discover it . |
| 8 | In other words , we were set for a few laughs . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Numerous poles were set into the mossy cobbles of the yard , connected at a height of six feet or so by thin cords . |
| 11 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Crow Wood is set below the north-western flanks of the Cleveland Hills , with a clear view to Roseberry Topping , a strangely menacing peak rising straight out of meadows and woodland . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This shows accuracy , however , not prejudice : most of his work is set before the English navvies and engineers descended on Normandy . |
| 16 | More typically , the Unionist belief in the Empire was set against the Liberal plans to break up the United Kingdom , as in the leaflet Under which flag ? of July 1914 : this made the comparison between Unionists who had fought in South Africa and Liberals who had been pro-Boer and who would now shoot loyal Ulstermen . |
| 17 | The pattern was set by the first fanatics , destined to become the heroes of later generations . |
| 18 | Written in verse , the play was set in the Middle Ages and told of a soldier back from seven years in the wars who wanted to die and a beautiful witch who wanted to live . |
| 19 | The new tone was set in the early hours of Friday when a broken-hearted bearded man of radical inclinations tore down his Labour posters and replaced them with a single bleak statement which , curiously , he must have had printed before the election . |
| 20 | The sun was setting behind the black rocks , and the sea was a blaze of luminous colour . |