Example sentences of "[is] set [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The usual technique for checking that the microphone is set to the correct level after the audience arrives is to call , ‘ Can you all hear me ? ’
2 Once everything is up and running drop into the BIOS set-up program and ensure that the Coprocessor field is set to the appropriate value to indicate the presence of a 387DX .
3 Another new work Orfeo ( pictured above ) by Kim Brandstrup deals with the myth in the manner of a baroque opera and is set to the computerised harpsichord of Ian Dearden .
4 The full release of Data Connection 's SNAP-APPN is set for the second quarter of the year .
5 Comdex/Sucesu is set for the Parque Anhembi and Center Norte in Sao Paulo , Brazil August 23-27 and expects 450 exhibitors and 135,000 attendees .
6 With all LIFFE contracts , the maintenance margin level is set at the initial margin level .
7 The cottage is set on the highest ridge of the Chiltern Hills and is surrounded by the most glorious countryside .
8 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 .
9 Because the front bed is now the main bed , the main tension is set on the front carriage .
10 Instead of coding the instruction length into the operation code , the word mark bit is set on the left-hand character of each instruction ( which contains the operation code ) .
11 Landscaped with elegant villas dating from the turn of the century , the resort is set between the startling beauty of the Apuan Alps and the gently shelving Tyrrhenian Sea .
12 the front bed is set into the correct position by moving the intermediary lever to the 1/4 pitch , or transfer position .
13 On the north side of the house the royal coat of arms is set into the classical pediment
14 ‘ The Color Purple ’ is set in the first decade of the twentieth century , in rural Georgia and most of the characters are black Americans as are those in ‘ The Friends ’ which is set in the seventies , in Harlem , New York .
15 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 .
16 ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is set in the Deep South of Alabama , where the majority of white men will not accept Negroes into a white society and it 's not only that the Negroes do not live amongst the whites , in some cases they are treated as if they are nobody .
17 The Italian Village is set in the open plain where the new town centre of Spitak is supposed to be .
18 It consists of two alternating narratives , one of which is set in the eighteenth century and the other in the present , with the earlier delivered in the first person .
19 This important wharf , originally lined with warehouses only recently demolished , is set in the very heart of the city amid colleges and shops .
20 This hotel is set in the beautiful bay of Marina di Campo , about five minutes walk from the resort centre , and the same distance from the fine beaches .
21 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 .
22 A different kind of limitation is set by the third condition and it is this which we will look at now .
23 The tone is set by the continual use of the pose with head held high , back slightly arched , arms in closed 4th or a stretch fully upwards in 5th sur les pointes for Kitri or on demi-pointes for Basil .
24 The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area .
25 The rateable value is set by the local valuation office , which is a branch of the Inland Revenue .
26 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 :
27 The greatest computer show on earth , COMDEX/Fall ‘ 92 , is set against the glittering background of Las Vegas , Nevada USA .
28 Romance , in his novels , is set against the inconvenient intervention of reality taking the form of chance .
29 Richly atmospheric , ‘ Bondagers ’ is set against the sprawling landscape of the 1860's borders farms in Scotland .
30 Richly atmospheric , ‘ Bondagers ’ is set against the sprawling landscape of the 1860s borders farms .
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