Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] set [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 2 | Negotiations between the government and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) continued during late 1989 and early 1990 over the terms of future structural adjustment and standby facilities , but progress towards an agreement was impeded by the breaching of targets set under the IMF 's monitoring programme . |
| 3 | TEN BOB IN WINTER : A comedy of manners set against the lives of West Indian immigrant workers in London in the sixties . |
| 4 | She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor . |
| 5 | The spate of films set during the Vietnam War which reached the screen during the late 1980s highlighted the reluctance with which Hollywood approached the subject for many years . |
| 6 | The price cuts were in line with conditions set by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank . |
| 7 | The controls apply only to new oil-burners and the environmental pressure group say they simply bring Europe into line with standards set in the US 13 years ago . |
| 8 | There are two more branches of the much-divided tree of crime fiction that we ought to glance at in our discussion of books set in the past . |
| 9 | It had a couple of rubies set in the pommel . |
| 10 | The three doors are covered with a fine brass grille to enable display of books set upon the four shelves . |
| 11 | He had a wide waistline , iron-grey hair en brosse , a tanned face with smile-lines set round the mouth , a signet ring , gold serpent coiled round bloodstone . |