Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will Major and Hurd be able to neutralise the timebomb set by the social chapter amendment ? asks Chris McLaughlin |
| 2 | There is a swimming pool with terrace set amidst the sunny garden . |
| 3 | Cati 's heart twisted , then withered inside her , like a paper taper set to the fire . |
| 4 | WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP : Buddy movie set in the world of basketball , starring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes . |
| 5 | 8 ( 5 ) WHITE MEN CA N'T JUMP : Woody ( Cheers ) Harrelson and Wesley Snipes star in this buddy movie set in the world of basketball . |
| 6 | There 's a film on now , ‘ a gritty piece set in a Welsh mining community ’ according to the Radio Times . |
| 7 | Arne Glimcher , owner of the important Pace Gallery , has just made his directorial debut with ‘ The Mambo Kings ’ , an $18 million adaptation of the novel by the Cuban-American Oscar Hijuelos an extravaganza set in a 1950s New York of Latin supper clubs and parties . |
| 8 | The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament . |
| 9 | Had the above account been a linguistic account , an explanation of the meaning of ‘ legitimate authority ’ , it would have followed that anyone who believes of a person that he has legitimate authority believes that that person satisfies the condition set by the justification thesis . |
| 10 | Intertel Communications Inc , currently legally a Canadian company , says from its Teleport Denver Inc base in Colorado that it plans to swear allegiance to the flag and become a naturalised American : it will reincorporate in the US to meet a condition set by the Federal Communications Commission , which gave plenty of ammunition to the Europeans that say that the US market is not as open as Uncle Sam likes to think , by insisting that only American companies could hold earth satellite station common carrier licences — there is no comparable restriction on US companies applying for licences in the UK . |
| 11 | His left hand rested on the desk a silver ring set with a large brown stone on the little finger , and between the first and second fingers a cigarette with a thin blue tape of smoke rising steadily from it . |
| 12 | One episode with disasters aplenty was Episode Four of ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ , the episode set in the polar regions of that planet . |
| 13 | He thrust it into the man 's hands and strode past him , making for the open doorway set in the centre of the long white portico that ran the length of the house . |
| 14 | over the figure set by the Government will mean at least a 9 per cent . |
| 15 | Productivity growth would then decline as the frontier set by the United States was approached . |
| 16 | A Section of statute set in the European legal hypermedium |
| 17 | A classic storyline set in the twenties being filmed in the nineties . |
| 18 | The other sentry 's trouser-leg darkened as he shakily but hurriedly turned the locking wheel set into the wall . |
| 19 | An extra planetary gear set on the end , together with a new rear casing , provides the extra , overdriven ratio . |
| 20 | Ltd. , Crown jewellers since 1,843 , this , including an eight-piece Abercorn kettle and tea set on a silver tray , was ordered by Lutyens and its cost of £280 was paid in cash by Sir Herbert Morgan . |
| 21 | The success of the portland blue Jasper range , which was launched last year , has lead to the addition of the Brewster tea set to the collection . |
| 22 | His mouth set into a rather grim line . |
| 23 | For just an instant his mouth set into a bitter line . |
| 24 | Colour showed along his cheekbones , and his mouth set into a very taut line . |
| 25 | Eleanor 's lovely mouth set into a not particularly lovely line . |
| 26 | Jessamy stared at him for a moment , then her mouth set into a line that was almost as determined as his own . |
| 27 | Her mouth set in a stubborn line he knew so well . |
| 28 | Her mouth set in a grim line , she went to the kitchen door . |
| 29 | Sarah 's mouth set in a grim line . |
| 30 | His closely shaven face was tense and his usually sensuous mouth set in a grim line . |