Example sentences of "[adv] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene was all set for a pitched battle . |
| 2 | With the gun under my arm I was all set for the evening . |
| 3 | In fact , the tea 's all set in the dining-room as usual and has been for … let me see ’ — she put her head on one side — ‘ how many years ? ’ |
| 4 | The early days of apartheid get rewritten as one ( white ) boy 's mythical slugfest for justice , all set against a backdrop of Big Scenery , psycho-Nazi Afrikaners , good-natured English liberals and nobly suffering blacks . |
| 5 | Teaching and particularly a scheme of one-to-one tutoring and counselling has to encourage a response from each student which testifies to that student 's commitment to thorough enquiry , hard thinking , self-scrutiny and honesty of purpose , all set within a context of the daily practicalities of management . |
| 6 | Swimmers are well catered for with a heated main pool , a whirlpool bath and a shallow children 's pool all set within the grounds . |
| 7 | If London and the North both win , as expected , then the stage will be nicely set for a north-south shoot-out in their final game at Otley next Saturday . |
| 8 | Julius 's mouth suddenly set into a hard line that she remembered very well , and her nerves gave an involuntary quiver . |
| 9 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 10 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 11 | However , this tablet was only set in the wall in 1456 , and is in conflict with an account written about events on 17 September 1387 . |
| 12 | It would mean a reduced workload for you so I honestly ca n't see why you 're so set against the idea . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're so set against the idea . ’ |
| 14 | Why are you so set against the idea ? |
| 15 | The Kings Quest series is basically set in the mythical kingdom of Daventry , and revolves around the adventures of King Graham , his family and subjects . |
| 16 | Normally a rubber-stamping exercise , representatives from all over the country come to discuss an agenda largely set by the party . |
| 17 | As C. D. Burns remarked in 1924 : " We have … developed in England a compromise by means of which the educational system is in great part a State system and the standard of education is largely set by the universities free from state control . " |
| 18 | It was explained that this was because the company was perpetually producing new products with life-cycles of two to four years and that the product mixes over the narrow product range in current production were largely set by the available type of capacity over such periods . |
| 19 | This is normally set at the purchase price or the upper limit of the price if this can not be determined at completion . |
| 20 | The Hotel Metropole is prettily set on the water 's edge of Lake Como and its dining-room and terrace are specifically designed to take full advantage of this position , and give enchanting views across the lake . |
| 21 | Situated on the lakeside , this extremely popular hotel is prettily set against a backdrop of the spectacular green mountainside , and overlooks Riva 's main square , harbour and steamer landing stage . |
| 22 | Bedwetting baselines are best set over a period of at least 2 weeks because of the often intermittent nature of the problem . |
| 23 | More conclusive evidence comes from experiments in which the nucleus is removed from a fertilized egg , and is replaced by the nucleus of a cell which is already set on the road to becoming , for example , a gut cell or a skin cell . |
| 24 | In ‘ random mode ’ , the time controller will switch an appliance on and off at random intervals during the four ON periods already set for the programme mode . |
| 25 | ( March 10 was the date already set for the dissolution of Parliament in advance of the general election . ) |
| 26 | Rot had already set into the damp wood and she was able to break chunks off the strut as though they were bits of soggy cardboard . |
| 27 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 28 | Of slighter build than his brother , at fifteen Joseph still had the unfinished face of a growing boy , but his features were already set in a more thoughtful , reflective cast than Chuck 's and there was a hint of his mother 's sensitivity in his smile . |
| 29 | The existing standard number , determined under section 15 of the Education Act 1980 and generally set at the intake of pupils to the school in 1979–80 ( a peak year ) , will be the new standard number — unless in 1989–90 , the year before the law changed , admissions exceeded the 1980 Act standard number . |
| 30 | Many of these have tall towers , sometimes with spires , generally set at the west end . |