Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] set [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Scheffau is set against the backdrop of the stunning Ellmauer Halt , the highest peak in the Wilder Kaiser mountain range . |
| 32 | The standard of care is set by the statute . |
| 33 | The second part of Hartleap Well is set in the present . |
| 34 | The level of the annual contribution to the Compensation Fund is set by the Council . |
| 35 | This is determined by the angle the line is set to the wind , as one end is nearly always better than the other . |
| 36 | The story is set in the South-west of America , around the Mississippi river . |
| 37 | There is an opportunity to relate theory to practice , and as the teaching is set at the student 's level of understanding and experience , time can be spent on aspects which she finds difficult . |
| 38 | Next door , Frank Dobson 's modelled terracotta study for Pax is set beside the work of five other portrait painters . |
| 39 | Depending on the target species , the net is set at the bottom and anchored , or set at the surface and left to drift with the wind and current . |
| 40 | If PP is set outside the range allowed for by the selected format , it is taken as 9 . |
| 41 | The governor 's pay is set by the bank 's remuneration committee of external directors . |
| 42 | This friendly Club Hotel is set at the edge of a lagoon at the centre of a resort complex offering a range of facilities . |
| 43 | The Ware Standard is set by the Potato Marketing Board in order to guarantee the quality and size of potatoes offered for sale . |
| 44 | If the coordinate system is set along the axis of the shaft , only one rotational freedom is seen to be allowable . |
| 45 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 46 | In fact , if the problem is set within the context of an evidently powerful late-tenth-century Danish monarchy , it is difficult to believe that Harald Bluetooth or his son could not have introduced a naval system had they wished , and when the concern about the country 's southern land defences is remembered , along with the importance that must also have been attached to protection from sea-borne attack , it might seem more likely than not that they did wish . |
| 47 | The pervading atmosphere is one of the 1910s and 1920s , and the tone is set by the holiday houses hiding , like Undertown , among macracarpa trees , or braving it on the cliff with their faces looking to the Atlantic . |
| 48 | Renaissance , an annual symposium , is earnest , slightly religious and very southern ; you get the feeling that its tone is set by the kind of conversations about family and country that businessmen in Greenville , South Carolina would have on a Sunday after church or a round of golf . |
| 49 | The Gothic style Manor House is set in the midst of 120 acres ( 50 hectares ) of gardens and parkland ; it was built in 1804 to replace a previous Jacobean residence , and is at the centre of the 3,300 acres ( 1,335 hectares ) Bradwell Grove Estate , where for many centuries farming and forestry have been practised in a way typical of life in the Cotswolds . |
| 50 | The large fish tank is set into the back wall most tastefully . |
| 51 | An optimum time is set for the course , and penalties awarded if competitors exceed it . |
| 52 | The rate of interest is set by the lender and is governed by a host of economic factors , all widely publicised in the national press . |
| 53 | The UEL is set by the government each year . |
| 54 | Terah dies , and the stage is set for the story of Abraham ( the new name records God 's promise to make this man the father of many nations , 17:5 ) . |
| 55 | And then we learn that the wife is a townswoman , a merchant 's wife , not a fine lady , and the stage is set for the fabliau drama by the absence of the husband on business . |
| 56 | A notch is set in the face of the rails and back so long stock can be placed across the full length of the fire . |