Example sentences of "[noun sg] set [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although there is some experience of contracting in such services as catering and cleaning , the scale of the programme set out in the White Paper is of a different order .
2 The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain .
3 Given the philosophy set out in the previous section it is essential that the Senior Administrative Assistant have able and experienced Principal Officers who they can turn to and that such Principal Officers should not be overstretched by dealing with individual cases but are available to direct and manage operations .
4 Balanced growth incidence requires that , and from these equations it is possible to examine the effect of different combinations of taxes , taking account of the equivalence set out in the preceding paragraph .
5 A year and a half ago , Hotspur thought , this fierce faun was surely no more than seventeen years old , and married off , like many another , to an old miser three or four times her age , for the sake of a noble name and a set of paltry quarterings , and the hope of a grandson set up in the landed estate .
6 The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area .
7 Checkpoint Charlie , the crossing point set up in the early 1960s between East and West Berlin is to be opened to millions of people on Wednesday .
8 In such cases the procedure set out in the Senior Master 's Practice Note of 14 April 1988 should be followed .
9 As Patricia Monahan says ‘ oil-painting should be a journey of exploration and pleasure ’ , adding that ‘ the artist sets off in a particular direction but ends up somewhere else . ’
10 He wanted people to get on with the urgent business of living the good life set out in the Eightfold Path , and not to waste time or energy in speculation and debate .
11 It will start with something like that which appears in the version set out in the New English Bible : ’ When all things began , the Word already was . ’
12 Beyond the sitting room , a large area with an old brick fireplace set back in a spacious alcove , piles of cut logs flanking it , a narrow passage led to the kitchen and a small study .
13 However , while the views of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne ( Mr. Sheldon ) on Europe have not always been similar to mine , I was pleased to hear him say that he could not see how it was possible for 12 Finance Ministers in ECOFIN — about which we hear a great deal these days — to control a European central bank established on the model set out in the present draft treaty prepared by the Dutch Government .
14 Therefore , on 13 February 1991 , I tabled a written question : ’ To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners in previous years , in complying with his wishes to move to use computers , applied for a grant for the installation of a computer system that was above the figure of payment set out in the published computer cost reimbursement schedule . ’
15 Their cheeks were blanched and drawn as the party set out in the driving rain , armed with ropes and fresh lanterns .
16 She followed the boy to a house set back in a palm-lined road , which was light years away from the urchin 's poverty-stricken background .
17 We should build up the Western European Union as the defence pillar of the European union , but the treaty embodies the view set out in the Anglo-Italian proposal two months ago , and endorsed at last month 's summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that whatever we do at European level must be compatible with NATO .
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