Example sentences of "[Wh det] [is] set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own feeling is that there is a great similarity and that there is a a base salary normally which is set on a competitive level with a target as in this case perhaps at the mid-point , perhaps at the sixty percent level or whatever it would be and that a significant uplift in compensation can be obtained by a bonus scheme , if the performance of the company as measured in earnings per share , return on capital , return on equity or any m other measure if those objectives are met . |
| 2 | Vargas Llosa 's The Time of the Hero , which is set in a Peruvian military academy where the cadets assume an ostentatious machismo as a survival strategy , oscillates between third-person narration and monologue ( interior and spoken ) to bring out the gulf between the boys ' public personae and their sensitive and vulnerable inner self , and to highlight how social intercourse distorts their personality by conditioning them to suppress their softer feelings . |
| 3 | We were staying overnight at Blackburn bothy , which is set in a small wood with a stream wending through it . |
| 4 | Initially the reasoning behind this law seemed sensible for a region like Champagne , which is set in a viticultural twilight zone where the size of harvest fluctuates from year to year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In comparison to this , ‘ The Disappearance ’ which is set in the 1970's is altogether a different type of community . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Similarly , in La neige etait sale ( The Stain on the Snow ) which is set in an occupied country , has as its hero Frank Friedmaier — a thug who kills for fun and arranges the rape of a young woman who loves him . |
| 11 | History in the primary school therefore presents the paradox of some fine work , which is set in an uncertain curricular pattern , and is too rarely part of a firm curriculum plan . |