Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My old dream of a play set in a boxing-ring , he wrote . |
| 2 | With respect to die development ( and these comparisons are based on studies of a die set for the most complicated body panel ) , the time between the release of the first rough part drawings to completion of tryouts was 14 months in Japan versus 25 and 28 months in the US and Europe , respectively ( see Figure 3 ) . |
| 3 | The immediate and natural recourse of a woman set on a highly militant search after holiness , an escape from marriage and its social duties and a private life , would have been to enter a convent . |
| 4 | Bernice , on the Doctor 's heels , saw the glowing blue curve of a planet set against the darkness of space . |
| 5 | She was surprised to see that he had the green flashing lights of a doctor set into the fairing at the front of the bike , and a siren that almost deafened her . |
| 6 | According to Malthus , its fiercest critic , it depressed the wages paid by farmers by compensating wherever they fell below a scale set by the bread price and the number of the labourer 's children in relation to his wage ( Marshall 1968 ) . |
| 7 | It looked like a mock-up set in a middle-class soap opera , shining with domestic trivia , very clean . |
| 8 | In the burning pages , he imagined his electro-acoustic instruments sparking and self-destructing like a spaceship set at the end of a low-budget science fiction film . |
| 9 | How about a restaurant set in the vaults of a medieval monastery , lit by candles and with a menu that owes its variety to the best raw material found around the world ? |
| 10 | Today we approached from the most picturesque direction , through a stile set in the wall of the narrow stone bridge whose elegant arches span the burn 's deep-cut ravine . |
| 11 | Given a military problem , Osbern of Eu and his men resembled nothing so much , Cormac thought , as a starving man with a knife set before a belly-piece of fat pork and an ale-horn . |
| 12 | Practise each lick from memory with a metronome set at a very slow tempo . |
| 13 | These translation states of the coupler were then rotated to align with an arc set through the right-hand arm coupling point . |
| 14 | This development will be in conjunction with a member of staff of the Enterprise Centre so that ‘ revised ’ Enterprise statements are then completed and approved within a date set by the Validation/Review Panel . |
| 15 | But , if necessary , it can connect to timers , to a maximum demand controller ( which keeps the site 's power consumption within a limit set by the electricity board ) or , for that matter , to a computer . |
| 16 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 17 | The pool forms a real focal point from both the house and patio , while the sound of water , falling from a mask set in the wall , will be delightful on a hot summer 's day . |
| 18 | Curved steps are set out using a stringline or batten from a peg set at the centre point . |
| 19 | The embarrassments of first love and sexuality , and particularly the nature of violence and cruelty , become bearable or ‘ handlable ’ in a story set in the past . |
| 20 | She kept rabbits in a hutch in the back garden behind the rows of cabbages and the clump of rhubarb and did not mind at all that in winter she had to wash at night in a bowl set on a sheet of brown paper in front of the living room fire because there was no heater in the bathroom . |
| 21 | The articulation of the two together , in terms and in a context set by the values of the new youth culture , epitomizes the overall problematic proposed by this music-historical moment ; broadly speaking , we can think of romantic fantasy ‘ made young ’ , ‘ given flesh ’ , made to ‘ move ’ physically , while conversely an increased corporeal freedom is presented , in line with the experience of adolescent sexuality in Protestant bourgeois society , in a guarded , personalized , even Ironic manner . |
| 22 | Scott , revealing details of the 500-page bid document for the first time , insisted the big selling point was the proximity of the sports venues to the competitors ' village , which would be in a canalside setting in the heart of the city . |
| 23 | Therefore writing on Japan in English operates , to a significant degree , within an agenda set by a liberal democratic tradition involving a commitment to private property , the role of market competition , citizenship rights and representative democratic institutions . |
| 24 | And all this minor misery is occurring in an island set in a leaden sea of even greater misery , in a world which is presumably going to end , sooner rather than later , in some cataclysmic downpour of misery beyond imagination . |
| 25 | A short time later , on the other side , she came to a noticeboard set at the corner of a road which left the main highway . |
| 26 | Set into the floor near the entrance is a brass strip running the width of the building to a sundial set on the left wall . |
| 27 | As the core reaches saturation the inductance falls to a low value and the current rises rapidly to a limit set by the DC resistance of the coil forcing the core well into saturation . |
| 28 | The driver will control his speed via an adjustable governor , up to a limit set by the local road surface . |
| 29 | She walked across the cobbles and pointed to a plaque set in the wall of the Library . |
| 30 | Run a stringline from the top of the bank to a post set at the foot of the bank , checking for square . |